Boxing as a Jewish Sport
In the Jewish Museum, we have got many objects all about the sport of boxing from different times in history.
Nina Salaman Hebrew Scholar, Poet and Zionist
Born in 1877, Nina Salaman was an exceptional scholar and was one of the leading Hebraists of her time. From her translations published in the Jewish Chronicle in 1894 she had a significant literary output.
Understanding the Indian Baghdadi Jews
The Jewish Museum tells the history of British Jews while also celebrating the larger Jewish community.
Behind-the-Scenes at the Jewish Museum: A Curatorial Intern
My four month part-time Curatorial Internship at the Jewish Museum encompassed a wide range of activities including (but not restricted to) research, collections care and exhibition preparation.
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 […]
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 […]
Memory Quilts – Giving History a Human Face
by Alice McDermott, Learning Team Intern During Alice’s time as a Learning Team Intern at the museum she worked on producing resource packs for our Memory Quilts: Triumph Over Adversity exhibition. These packs explore in depth the stories of some of the Holocaust survivors (’The Boys’) whose lives are represented on the quilts. Having spent […]
Judeans under the floor
by Elisabeth Murray, Curatorial Intern Objects come into a museum in a variety of ways. Sometimes they are given only on loan (like most of the objects in our new crowd-sourced exhibition Sacrifice), occasionally they are purchased in an auction, which normally results in a few tense moments of bidding, and sometimes we get really […]
Jewish EastEnders – developing a school workshop
by Maya Makker, Learning Team Intern Last year, I had the opportunity to work with the Jewish Museum London’s learning team to re-invent Jewish EastEnders, a school workshop about the Great Migration, in which around 150,000 Jewish people settled in Britain from Eastern Europe between the years of 1881 and 1914. While the workshop was […]
Action Reconciliation Service for Peace Seminar
by Larissa Henskt, Museum Intern Nearly three months of my voluntary service have now passed, so it was time for a first review and reflection of all experiences and impressions I have gained. For that reason I went to a really tiny Welsh village called Bwlch over the last weekend to attend to my first Action Reconciliation Service […]
