AEJM Conference 2014 Warsaw

MUSEUM CONFERENCE for European Jewish museums and collections. Annual 4-day networking and professional development event (100-120 participants) that includes keynote lectures, panel discussions, presentations, hands-on workshops November 15 – 18, 2014 Warsaw || Poland in cooperation with the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Warsaw, PL),…

Museum Education Seminar 2014 Oslo

Professional development seminar on museum education at Jewish museums, with hands-on workshops, lectures, presentations and discussion sessions. In cooperation with the Oslo Jewish Museum (NO), for the Association of European Jewish Museums. Project management and content development, October 2014

Russia | Art | XXI

LECTURE in the framework of the academic course Mythes Modes Media, part of the BA Slavic Languages & Culture, specialization in Russian, at the Humanities Faculty of the University of Amsterdam. In Russia | Art | XXI Eva Koppen concentrated on contemporary Russian art with a special focus on trends…

Sztuka Polska || Contemporary Polish Art

SZTUKA POLSKA || Contemporary Polish Art June 29, 2014 location: Jewish Historical Museum (Amsterdam, NL) How do contemporary Polish artists reflect in their work on Polish-Jewish history? How do artists discuss or confront contemporary Polish society with the loss of a multi-layered Polish-Jewish past and rich culture and…

Roman Vishniac (re)discovered

EXHIBITION on the work of photographer Roman Vishniac at the Jewish Historical Museum (Amsterdam, NL), curated by Maya Benton (NY) and co-curated by Bernadette van Woerkom (NL) Known around the world, the photographs of Jewish life in Eastern Europe taken by Russian-American photographer Roman Vishniac (1897-1990)…