Yiddish theatre, Franz Kafka and art movements of the 20th century
by Charlotte Hafner, ARSP Volunteer Yiddish theatre groups have been touring through Eastern Europe between about 1890 and 1933. However, the heightened discrimination and antisemitism in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th century, often accompanied by violent pogroms against Jewish people, made life quite difficult for many of […]
A Kinder Suitcase: Rescue and Refuge
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 […]
Lisbeth’s Apron: Escaping the Nazis
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jews of Iraq
by Miriam Phelan, Assistant Curator Over the next few months we will be exploring Sephardi Jewish communities from around the world and throughout time on the blog, alongside our exhibition Sephardi Voices: Jews from North Africa, the Middle East and Iran. Explore the historic Iraqi Jewish communities in the first of these blogs below. The […]
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 […]
