An Indian Etrog case: Jewish Migration around the world
By Josie Roberts, Learning Officer To accompany the Sukkot: Seeking Shelter exhibition we have an array of exciting events alongside the wonderful sukkah installed in our Welcome Gallery. To highlight further some of the important issues surrounding migration, we are going to shed light on a number of hidden stories of migration in our permanent […]
The Great Migration and the Jewish East End
By Josie Roberts, Learning Officer To accompany the Sukkot: Seeking Shelter exhibition we have an array of exciting events alongside the wonderful sukkah installed in our Welcome Gallery. To highlight further some of the important issues surrounding migration, we are going to shed light on a number of hidden stories of migration in our permanent […]
Jewish Museum London’s exhibition Blood: Uniting and Dividing opens in Poland
Jewish Museum London’s ground-breaking exhibition exploring the provocative and complex subject of blood has opened at POLIN.
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The da Costa Family: Jewish Contribution after Resettlement
by Josie Roberts, Learning Officer This week the museum opened the Sukkot: Seeking Shelter installation. To accompany it we have an array of exciting events highlighting some important issues surrounding migration and shelter, and we are going to shed light on a number of hidden stories of migration in our permanent collection. Every week, we […]
Orientalism in the Alfred Rubens Collection
by Dr Kathrin Pieren, Collections Manager and Curator The museum’s Rubens Collection of 1,600 drawings, prints, etchings, and lithographs from the 17th to the 20th century encompasses scenes from Jewish life and portrays Jewish personalities, mostly from Britain. Yet, it also includes ethnographic prints of Jews from Northern Africa, Turkey and the Middle East. These […]
Sephardi Dress
by Miriam Phelan, Assistant Curator Sephardi Voices, currently on display in the museum’s Welcome Gallery, explores the stories of Jewish immigrants to the UK from across the Islamic world through video interviews, photographs and a selection of objects from the collection. The Jewish Museum London has a number of Sephardi objects, including rare and beautiful […]
Winner of a 2017 Sandford Award
Learning Team are pleased to announce we have been granted a 2017 Sandford Award for Excellence in Heritage Education!
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The Sephardi Community of the Resettlement Era
by Dr Kathrin Pieren, Collections Manager and Curator The current exhibition on Jewish people who came to the UK from the Middle East and Northern Africa in the 20th century – Sephardi Voices – seems a good opportunity to look at the history of an earlier Sephardi community (people whose ancestry goes back to Spain, called […]
