German Jews Today

Monday 11. November 2024 — Sunday 27. April 2025
German Jews Today - Exhibition at Jewish Museum Berlin

At the start of the 1960s, not even 20 years after the abyss of the Holocaust, the American-Jewish photographer Leonard Freed (1929‒2006) spent several months traveling through West Germany. He wanted to use his camera to capture how German Jews were currently living. Through his images, Freed set out to counteract the Germans’ ignorance of the invisible Jewish minority living among them. He took photographs in several Jewish communities, especially in the areas around Frankfurt and Düsseldorf. In 1965, 52 of his photographs were published with accompanying texts under the title Deutsche Juden heute (German Jews Today). These images and texts focus on the Jewish communities and discuss the relationship between Jews and Germans. …”

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  • Free of charge

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  • daily 10 am–6 pm
Jewish Museum Berlin
Lindenstr. 9–14
10969 Berlin
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