Yiddish Classes at the Museum
by Peter Walton, Guest Blogger Greetings! This is a new blog about an informal Yiddish class that is now meeting in the Jewish Museum London every Tuesday at 7-8.30pm. I call it a class but its not like a conventional language class that follows a syllabus and where the students are graded (beginners, lower intermediate […]
Jews on the Somme
by Roz Currie, former Military Collections Curator Today marks 100 years since the Battle of the Somme began on the 1 July 1916. One of the largest and bloodiest battles of the First World War, an estimated one million men were killed or wounded. The British intended to attack and take control of a 24 mile […]
A Spitalfields Walking Tour with Israel Zangwill
by Dr Nadia Valman, Reader in English Literature at Queen Mary University, London As a scholar of the literary history of east London, I’ve long been fascinated by Israel Zangwill’s great novel of the Victorian Jewish East End, Children of the Ghetto, first published in 1892. Zangwill was born near Petticoat Lane market in 1864, […]
The Jews’ Temporary Shelter
by Ali Quine, Assistant Curator For refugees fleeing religious, racial or political persecution, arriving in a strange new country can be extremely harrowing. Adjusting to unfamiliar cultural practices and languages while attempting to process the traumas faced back home are made considerably more difficult when confronted by a hostile or indifferent reception. At the end […]
School Reunion with the Jewish Deaf Association
by Josie Roberts, Learning Officer Last Sunday the Learning Team went to Nightingale House in Wandsworth, former home of the Residential School for Jewish Deaf Children, where the Jewish Deaf Association were hosting possibly their last school reunion. The school itself closed in 1965. We attended the event to showcase some of our objects that […]
unirdg-collections: Ever wonder where a museum gets its objects? In the case of this reversible plough, we drag them out of hedges! Our curators in the 1960s had a tour of a farm in Cornwall and were so taken with this abandoned plough they brought it back to the museum. A favourite in our collection […]
Fashion Forward – Young Filmmakers project blog post
by Bella Millon, Participant and MA Student IOE From creating our own imaginary exhibitions to learning filmmaking techniques, talking with the museum curator and researcher to time-lapsing the streets of London – the young filmmakers project was five days packed full of fun, and new and exciting experiences. Working with Chocolate Films and staff […]
Jewish Museum shortlisted for Museum and Heritage Awards
We're thrilled to announce that the Jewish Museum's crowd-sourced exhibition Your Jewish Museum: Love has been shortlisted in the Museum and Heritage Awards 2016.
‘Pop-Up Talks’ launch this week!
by Kimberley Coates, Visitor Services and Volunteer Manager At the Jewish Museum we’re always looking for ways to help our visitors explore our amazing collection and develop our volunteer team. Our new Pop-Up Talks programme will comprise of a series of talks on objects chosen by the volunteers themselves. To develop this Roz Currie (Military Collections […]
Getting to know our visitors
by Milena Zettel, ARSP Volunteer and Museum Intern At the core of the Living Community gallery here at the Jewish Museum is a space that encourages visitors to share their thoughts and reflections on four diverse topics – Faith, Home, Community, and Identity – all of which are important themes in Judaism, Jewish history and […]
