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The founding of Israel on May 14, 1948 was a turning point for Jews all over the world. The Jewish community in Germany in particular felt deeply connected to the new state. Against this background, the tour is dedicated to the relationship between Germany and Israel and the significance of this relationship for all Jews living in Germany.

Reserve online ticket for 24 May

Reserve online ticket for 19 Jul

The tour offers you a first overview of the exhibition, told from a Jewish perspective by means of selected stations and objects. This journey through time picks up on polyphonic, sometimes contradictory positions.

Historical objects, media stations, video installations, and works of art from the collection invite you to follow the eventful history and learn more about what it means to be Jewish today.

Reserve online ticket for 31 May

In the exhibition Inventories. The Legacy of Salman Schocken, the American author Joshua Cohen explores the cultural legacy of the publisher and department store entrepreneur Salman Schocken.

Using selected exhibits from the museum's collections, Cohen comments on the history of the Schocken publishing house and takes it as the starting point for a contemporary perspective on culture and capital, on department stores and museums and, not least, on questions of (re)appropriation and belonging.

Reserve online ticket for 7 June

Reserve online ticket for 21 June

This offer presents the permanent exhibition with a focus on the historical period after 1945. An examination of the iconic architecture of the museum by Daniel Libeskind is part of the exhibition tour.

Reserve online ticket for 14 Jun

Reserve online ticket for 28 Jun

Yiddish holds a special place in Germany’s heritage. As one of many diasporic Jewish languages, Yiddish emerged over a thousand years ago in the German-speaking regions of Europe. It served as the everyday language of Ashkenazi Jews, who brought it along as they migrated. Yet Yiddish has never entirely left Germany.

Jews’ changing role in society since the Enlightenment led many speakers to switch to German. But in the 1880s, a wave of Yiddish-speaking immigrants brought a newly confident culture to Germany. Yiddish was becoming a vehicle of literature, theater, politics, song – and Jewish identity.

More than 5 million Yiddish speakers were murdered in the Holocaust, but islands of living Yiddish survived. And recently, a community of Yiddish-speaking artists, scholars, and activists has emerged in Berlin – including the tour guide.

This tour explores the overlooked role Yiddish has played for Jews in Germany and reflects on how languages play into our own family’s story and sense of self.

Booking opens soon in our ticket shop.

Rosh ha-Shanah is the Jewish New Year. According to oral tradition, it marks the day on which the creation of the world was completed; translated, the words mean “head of the year”. On Yom Kippur, nine days after Rosh ha-Shanah, the period of remembrance and repentance that opened the Jewish New Year ends. On this day, God enters his judgment on people in the “Book of Life”, which is closed and sealed after this probation.

Objects and everyday items tell of Jewish life on the High Holidays and give an insight into the diversity within Judaism.

Booking opens soon in our ticket shop.