Jewish Museum
Son of Czechoslovakian Jewish graphic designer and artist Bedrich Fritta, Thomas Fritta-Haas takes part in a press conference during a press preview of the exhibition 'Drawings from the Theresienstadt Ghetto' at the Jewish Museum in Berlin May 15, 2013. The exhibition shows works Bedrich Fritta produced in the Theresienstadt ghetto between 1942 and 1944. Deported to Theresienstadt on December 4, 1941, Fritta supervised the drawing studio of the Jewish self-administration, before being deported to Auschwitz In October 1944, where he died soon after arriving. Over 50 works, produced secretly in the Theresienstadt camp, showing daily life there, are on display from May 17 to August 25, 2013. Thomas Fritta-Haas survived the camps, and was adopted by his father's close friend Leo Haas.
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A Jewish Museum that says it's about education is actually reinforcing the misguided notion that Jewish culture and identity is a singular, monolithic entity, and nothing could be further from the truth. Who are they kidding? It's an embarrassment.
I find it amazing Germany is a country that confronts its darkest hour in this way. There probably aren't many other places where that happens, where the past is analysed, investigated, talked about to this day, and I think the Jewish Museum plays a role in that.
It's a horrible thing to do — completely degrading and not helpful ... The Jewish Museum absolutely missed the point if they wanted to do anything to improve the relations between Germans and Jews.More quotes »
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"Milwaukee Museum Mile" celebrates anniversary
they call the Milwaukee Museum Mile, since all are within a mile and often are overlooked by visitors.They are The Jewish Museum Milwaukee, The Charles Allis Art Museum, Museum of Wisconsin Art at St. John's On The Lake, The Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum Read more »
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Exhibit of Jews in Germany raises interest, ire
few Germans born after World War II know any Jews or much about them.To help educate postwar generations, an exhibit at the Jewish Museum features a Jewish man or woman seated inside a glass box for two hours a day through August to answer visitors' questions Read more »
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Drawings from Nazi Camp Displayed at Berlin Museum
drawings and sketches that a Czech artist produced and kept hidden from his Nazi captors go on display at the Jewish Museum. (Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on from Arutz Sheva Read more »
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Hidden drawings from Nazi concentration camp on display
Czech artist produced and kept hidden from his Nazi captors inside a World War II concentration camp went on display at the Jewish Museum in Berlin on Friday. Bedrich Fritta was 35 years old when he was imprisoned with his wife and baby son at the Theresienstadt from Expatica Read more »
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Art Review: ‘Jack Goldstein x 10,000’ at the Jewish Museum
of the Jewish Museum’s director, Claudia Gould. New York is lucky to have it. The curator Philipp Kaiser, working with the Jewish Museum’s assistant curator Joanna Montoya, neatly navigates some tricky passages in Goldstein’s career; at the time of his suicide from International Herald Tribune Read more »
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Barbara Bloom, An Artist-Curator at the Jewish Museum
Primary Structures—it cannot rid itself of the weight of its history, which has nothing to do with visual art. The Jewish Museum of the 1960s looked more contemporary, and more emerging, than what’s on view in Bloom’s exhibition, when Software and Primary from Art Fag City Read more »
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Primo Levi remembered in Rome
offices of La Stampa in what became known as “Primo Levi’s Room”, are on view to the public for the first time at the Jewish Museum in Rome (until 15 October). During the run of the show, the city’s Jewish Cultural Centre and the bookshop Kiryat Sefer will from The Art Newspaper Read more »
