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February 2021 Newsletter

Your Virtual Jewish Museum  Our doors may be closed but we are open online!  Due to the Lockdown in England announced on January 4th the museum remains closed to keep in line with Government guidance. Join us online for Jewish Museum London Live! Bringing the collection to you, Jewish Museum London Live enables you to experience the museum straight from home.  Participate in live streams, including talks on significant objects from the collection, a weekly quiz on a Friday, a museum family mornings on a Sunday. Plus we are now running Virtual Tours of the museum every other Monday!  We also have thousands of objects in our online collection for you to explore from home and hundreds of educational resources to enable remote learning.   Find out more Join us for Half Term!   Jewish Journeys: A Story of Migration 8th February @ 3.30pm - 4.15pm  Discover the History of Jews in Britain from 1066, a history full of journeys and migration. From a medieval mikvah telling the story of the first Jewish community in Britain to photographs belonging to children who escaped Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport, this virtual tour explores many periods of migration. This tour will be delivered via Zoom and attendees will be emailed the link and details needed to join. Book your tickets now! Jewish Pride: In Conversation with Ben Freeman 14th February @ 1.00pm Join us for this exclusive UK launch, In Conversation, event with Ben Freeman, author of 'Jewish Pride: Re-building a People', and Claudia Mendoza, Joint CEO of the Jewish Leadership Council, where they discuss Ben's widely anticipated book. In Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People, Ben, inspired by his experiences with LGBTQ+ pride, aims to educate, inspire and empower Jewish people to reject the shame of antisemitism imposed on Jews by the non-Jewish world as well as non-Jewish perceptions of what it means to be a Jew. Enabling them to begin the process of defining their own identities as proud Jews through Jewish experience, Jewish history and Jewish values. Ben will be Joined by Claudia Mendoza, Joint CEO of the Jewish Leadership council, to discuss the issues raised in Ben's book and the topic of Jewish identity. This event is part of a global launch with a series of events across six continents. Book your free tickets here! Jewish Museum London announces new Mental Health programme for schools linked to Holocaust Education    The Jewish Museum London is pleased to announce that a new programme to support young people with their mental health and wellbeing around grief and loss will be created in the memory of Solly Irving, a Holocaust Survivor who spoke to students at the museum for many years. Solly’s legacy programme will enable the museum to use the objects and documents in the collection, donated by Solly during his lifetime, to help young people to understand what it is to live a life with loss; something that Solly often spoke about with the students as he was the sole survivor of his family. Read our full press release here! Upcoming Virtual Events and Latest Blogs Object Talk Live! Children of the Ghetto  3rd February at 12pm  Join our wonderful volunteer Janet Leifer as she explores a Children of the Ghetto Theatre Programme from our collection. Hear all about the context of this object and background on Israel Zangwill, the playwright. This talk will be available on our Facebook page.   Quiz of the Week: Culture parts 1&2! 5th &12th February @11.00am  Join us for part one and two of our Shabbat Shalom Quiz of the Week dedicated to culture! Brush up on how the Jewish community have shaped British Culture and have some fun! The quizzes will both be available on our Facebook page Check out the rest of our Virtual Events this month!

Jewish Museum London - Explore the Jewish Museum London from home

 

September 2020 Newsletter

Your Virtual Jewish Museum  Our building may still be closed but the museum is still open online! Join us online for Jewish Museum London Live! Bringing the collection to you, Jewish Museum London Live enables you to experience the museum straight from home.  Participate in live streams, including talks on significant objects from the collection, a weekly quiz on a Friday, a museum family mornings on a Sunday. Plus we are now running Virtual Tours of the museum every other Monday!  We also have thousands of objects in our online collection for you to explore from home and hundreds of educational resources to enable remote learning. Find out more A Virtual Visit to the Jewish Museum! 7 September @ 3.30pm - 4.15pm  Explore the highlights of the Jewish museum’s galleries and discover the history of this museum’s collection. From the oldest Hannukah lamp made in Britain to the inspiring story of our WWII Nurses’ Cape, this virtual tour shares highlights from our Judaism, History and Holocaust Galleries. This tour will be delivered via Zoom and attendees will be emailed the link and details needed to join. Book your tickets now! Stories from the Stores! 21 September @ 3.30pm - 4.15pm Peer behind-the-scenes of the Jewish Museum with this chance to discover important objects from our stores. From photographs of early 20th century lessons at the Jews’ Free School to unique items of Judaica, uncover hidden stories from our stores in this virtual tour. This tour will be delivered via Zoom and attendees will be emailed the link and details to join. For more information on how to participate please click on the button below.  Find out more! Upcoming Virtual Events and Latest Blogs Object Talk Live: Rosh Hashanah   Join Senior Learning Manager Lisa to learn more about the upcoming Festival of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) by exploring a photograph from our collection of an Iraqi Jewish Family. This live talk will be streamed via our Facebook page.   Catch up with our Community Chats!  Listen to this podcast to hear from Lisa and Eliana, two Jewish women who discuss body image in the face of Anti-Semitic Jewish stereotypes. Jewish Museum Virtual Talks Check out our Virtual Tours that allow you to explore highlights of the Jewish Museum’s designated collection from your own home.  Extended Object Talk Live : Yom Kippur - Friends and Patrons  Tuesday 22 September, 3-3.45pm Join Emma and Eliana from the Learning and Engagement Team for a special extended version of our public object talks. This talk will explore objects from our stores that depict Yom Kippur being celebrated. We will examine the above postcard of soldiers attending a service for Yom Kippur whilst on active duty in 1870 will move through to the 20th century.  Virtual Events Learning at the Virtual Museum Virtual Classrooms Bookings are open for next term! Our award-winning workshops can now be experienced through distance learning. On these pages you will find all the information you need as teachers to select a workshop topic that best suits your students. All our workshops are based on a guided exploration experience of our unique collection of authentic objects enabling students to ask questions about what is means to be Jewish in Britain today. Click on the button below to find out more. Connected Learning: Outreach Loan Boxes Our specially designed curriculum based loan boxes bring authentic Jewish objects into your classroom to support your students to learn about belief and practice in Judaism. With boxes available in all Key Stages from 1-5 plus Early Years, why not bring the museum to your school for term? Click the button below to find out more and book for the next school year!

Jewish Museum London - This month at the Jewish Museum: Exhibition interventions, empathy Sundays and explorer mornings!

Explore the hidden secrets of our collection!  See our collection in a whole new light with our 'alternative' captions  The Jewish Museum London was recently awarded with funding to conduct intensive research into our Judaica collection, thanks to the Arts Council England Designation Development Fund. Twenty of our objects were intensively researched by Judaica experts and the results were fascinating. Items that were researched include a Turkish rug, adapted for use in Jewish religious services as wall hangings or decorative coverings. It is how this object was used rather than its origin that makes this rug Jewish. Visit our Judaism: A Living Faith Gallery to explore our new 'alternative' captions and find out what secrets you will uncover! Want a taste of what to expect? Read a blog post about the research project and the secret life of museum objects by Assistant Curator of Collections, Jemima Jarman!

The Freuds in Hampstead Walking Tour

Sunday 25 August, 11am - 1pm  Explore the memories of the Freud family in Hampstead in this walk led by Blue Badge Guide Rachel Kolsky. Sigmund Freud escaped Nazi occupied Vienna in 1938 to ‘die in freedom’ and his home in Hampstead became a magnet for other European refugees. But he was not the only Freud to leave his mark in NW3. This walking tour profiles Sigmund and his friends, his daughter Anna whose work with children continues to this day in Maresfield Gardens and his son, Ernst, an architect whose modernist houses remain as a testament to his talent.

Summer holiday fun for all the family at the Jewish Museum!

Storytelling: Empathy Sundays - Environment (Storytelling & Seed Planting) Sunday 11 August, 11-11.45am  Explore empathy, emotion and social action through storytelling at our Storytelling: Empathy Sundays. In this session we will read stories about caring for the environment. Participants will help plant some seeds and flowers in planter pots. You will then take some home and the rest will be donated to a local community centre for their garden.   Curious Explorers Morning Wednesday 14 August, 9-11am  A relaxed morning during the school holiday for children with autism or other social communication conditions, their siblings, parents and carers. Join us for an Environment themed morning with activities inspired by Earth, Sea and Sky. Activities include decorating your own plant pot, making your own sea creature out of clay and more!

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