Special Exhibition "Berlin Transit"

1 videos • 70 views • by jewishmuseumberlin The special exhibition "Berlin Transit. Jewish Migrants from Eastern Europe in the 1920s" will be shown at the Jewish Museum Berlin from 23 March to 15 July 2012. This cultural-historical exhibition focuses on the diverse worlds of Eastern European Jews in Berlin of the Weimar Republic, and presents a wealth of unknown materials: literary and autobiographic texts can be heard in their original languages (Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew and German), largely unknown photographs of the Scheunenviertel are subject to critical analysis and newly interpreted. A cycle of pogrom images by Issachar Ber Ryback is on display in Berlin for the first time since 1924. His avant-garde watercolours join in dialogue with Leonid Pasternak's paintings and Naum Gabo's sculptures. The exhibition was developed in cooperation with the research project "Charlottengrad and Scheunenviertel: Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s" at the Eastern Europe Institute of the Free University of Berlin. Exhibition's website: http://www.jmberlin.de/berlin-transit/en