Say hello to our new Late event team!
by Mathilde Lester, UCL Museum Studies MA Student and Project Manager for the Jewish Museum London’s Claytime Late Hello everyone. We are five masters students from UCL, Museum Studies, here to organise a Late Night evening on 2 February to coincide with Shaping Ceramics: From Lucie Rie to Edmund de Waal. Over the next few weeks, […]
Shaping Ceramics
by Joshua Rocker, Marketing Intern With its working jukebox machine and colourful collection of record covers, I wasn’t sure if the Jukebox, Jewkbox exhibition could be topped by Shaping Ceramics: From Lucie Rie to Edmund de Waal. I had started a marketing and events internship at the Jewish Museum just as Jewkbox was approaching its […]
Refugees: In Our Eyes
by Lauren Johnson, Learning Officer During the summer, The Jewish Museum was asked to participate in a project run by Camden Council for the Camden Summer University that investigated the current refugee crisis. Local teenagers got the opportunity to take part in a week-long film workshop, whereby they researched the crisis and responded with a […]
The Battle of Cable Street
by Morgan Wadsworth-Boyle, Assistant Curator On 4 October 1936, the people of the East End united to block a march by the British Union of Fascists, led by Sir Oswald Mosley. Within the week leading to the event, local politicians had pleaded with Home Secretary Sir John Simon to forbid the march, and he had also been presented with […]
The London Yiddish Choir is at the Museum – come join us!
by Robin Rubenstein, Guest Blogger This story begins like a Jewish joke: an Irish Jew, a Russian Jew and an American Jew meet in a hall in West London… In June 2009, I attended Shivaun Woolfson’s extraordinary exhibition “Surviving History: Portraits from Vilna” at Spiro Ark. The multi-media presentation included film, artefacts, and moving testimony […]
Help put Amy’s Camden on the Map
We’re excited to announce our first crowdfunding campaign, raising money to create a new street art trail celebrating Amy Winehouse in the area she called home. Donate now and receive some great rewards in return! In Spring 2017 the Jewish Museum London’s intimate and moving exhibition Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait returns to its Camden […]
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 […]
