Jewish Museum Westphalia

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Jewish Museum Westphalia (2015)

The Jewish Museum Westphalia in Dorsten shows in its exhibition the religion and culture of the Jews in Germany and in particular the history of Judaism in Westphalia . In addition to guided tours, the museum regularly offers various types of events: lectures, readings, concerts, workshops, training courses. A large reference library and a small bookstore are also part of the offer. In 2013/2014, the museum was classified as endangered in the Red List of Culture of the German Cultural Council .

history

Today's museum emerged from the Dorsten citizens' initiative and research group "Regional history / Dorsten under the swastika", which had been in existence since 1982 and which had previously published a series of books on Dorsten history and developed a local history exhibition. During the research for the volume on the Jewish community in Dorsten, until 1932 as the main synagogue community in the area after the second largest Jewish community in Germany, it turned out that for large parts of the population and the research group itself, instead of knowledge, there was a "deep-rooted ignorance regarding the Judaism ”and“ Prejudices as relics of Christian anti-Judaism and modern anti-Semitism ”existed. From this knowledge and an unexpected collection of remains of Jewish history, which were handed over to the research group by contemporary witnesses, relatives and friends of the expelled Jews, the idea of ​​a public presentation and documentation arose.

The citizens' initiative founded the Association for Jewish History and Religion in 1987. V. and, under the working title “Documentation Center for Jewish History and Religion”, drew up the plan to set up a museum. This museum was intended primarily to convey Jewish culture and regional Jewish history to non-Jews and to become a place of learning. In November 1987 the research group began to collect a basic set of historical exhibits, privately financed under the name “Sammlung Judaica Dorsten”.

With new sources of money such as property sponsorships, loans and grants from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe and above all the North Rhine-Westphalia Foundation, as well as support from the city of Dorsten, the association was able to acquire Judaica , valuable cultural objects and documents. The collection was expanded through donations and loans from private individuals, museums, institutions, the Jewish community of Bochum-Herne-Recklinghausen and the Israeli city of Hod haScharon .

An old town building owned by the city of Dorsten was renovated with state funds for around DM 2.3 million and rented to the association. The museum was officially opened on June 28, 1992 in the presence of the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Johannes Rau , the Israeli Ambassador Benjamin Navon and the District President Erwin Schleberger . The addition of “Westphalia” to the name was decided shortly before the opening in order to emphasize its position as the only Jewish museum in Westphalia, although the collection initially contained few exhibits of Westphalian provenance.

Since 1999 the foundation “Jewish Museum Westphalia” has supported the museum work financially. In 2001 a larger extension was added, which expanded the exhibition area by around 280 m² and created space for an event room and a foyer. On August 26, 2001, the reopening of the museum was celebrated with a completely redesigned permanent exhibition. The old building was renovated in 2002. In January 2004, the museum's permanent exhibition was expanded to include an exhibition on the regional history of the Jews. In May 2006, the members of the supporting association elected the previous secretary Norbert Reichling as chairman of the association and honorary director of the museum. The founding chairwoman Johanna Eichmann was elected honorary chairwoman shortly after her 80th birthday and held this office until her death in 2019. In autumn 2017 the association celebrated 25 years of the museum, 30 years of association work and 35 years of regional historical research.

Location and architecture

Location of the museum

The museum is located in the southeast of Dorsten city center on the corner of Südwall and Julius-Ambrunn-Straße , the latter is named after the last chairman of the local synagogue community in 1942.

The museum initially consists of a three-storey old building from the Wilhelminian era around 1900, which is assigned to Art Nouveau . The square floor plan of the eaves-facing building is only interrupted by a slightly protruding risalit on the street-side facade . The facade, which is now painted red, is divided horizontally by several white strips of cornice . The symmetrically arranged stitch and arched windows as well as ornaments, such as the six consoles below the eaves , structure the outer walls vertically. In the gable there is an ox eye with struts in the form of a Star of David . The pediment of the risalt is adorned with a reduced decorative gable, similar to a tympanum , also with an ox's eye.

A large, two-story new building was added to the old building in 2000 along the Südwall street to the corner of Julius-Ambrunn-Straße. The modern extension based on a design by Detlef Wiegand consists of several nested cubes. The connection between the old and the new building is formed by the open-plan foyer on the ground floor with large windows and a gallery on the upper floor. Other large windows loosen up the otherwise closed shape. The new building is particularly noticeable because of its flat, but structurally irregular clinker brick facade. The design of the facade with inferior bricks, so-called footstones, is reminiscent of the brick expressionism of the 1920s, but is also associated with the oppressions and rifts in Jewish history. The nocturnal illumination of the facade also creates interesting effects.

There is a sculpture garden behind the museum building. A memorial stone for the Holocaust , several sculptures and sculptures by Manfred Marreck , Tisa von der Schulenburg and others offer the visitor space for relaxation and remembrance. In autumn 2008 the installation “Wegweisend” by the Bochum artist Marcus Kiel was added, which reminds of selected submerged communities in Westphalia with street signs.

Sponsoring association, foundation and employees

The institution is run by the non-profit "Association for Jewish History and Religion e. V. “, Dorsten. Chairman of the sponsoring association and honorary director of the museum is Dr. Norbert Reichling. The association has 415 members, in addition to numerous private individuals, 24 cities, parishes and other organizations support the association as corporate members.

In addition to eight receptionists in marginal employment, a historian is employed as a scientific specialist at the museum. A museum education position is financed by the Recklinghausen district . On July 1, 2020, the museum will have full-time management for the first time. At the beginning, the museum work was mainly carried out on a voluntary basis and to date has been largely supported by volunteers and honorary staff. Around 30 people are employed at the museum, including all volunteers. Since 1999, personnel costs have been partially covered by interest income from the endowment capital of the “Jewish Museum Westphalia” foundation. This foundation under private law is supported by the Recklinghausen district and the Sparkasse Vest Recklinghausen. The Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe has also been one of the museum's permanent sponsors since 2020 .

The museum is a member of various specialist networks, such as B. in the working group of Nazi memorials and places of remembrance in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Working Group on Jewish Collections and the Association of European Jewish Museums.

Permanent exhibition

Room plan of the permanent exhibition

The permanent exhibition on the upper floor can be reached by stairs from the foyer. This exhibition, which was completely renewed in 2018, is entitled “L'Chaim! To life! Jewish in Westphalia ”. It introduces you to Jewish traditions and the present; In addition, it shows the regional history since the early modern period using 16 biographies from Westphalia as an example.

Jewish life in Westphalia

Jewish Paths of Life in Westphalia 2018

In this area of ​​the permanent exhibition, the 700 years of local Jewish history are presented using 16 exemplary résumés of Jews from the region. With photos, books, sculptures, letters, certificates, but also numerous personal items, the stories of the people are clearly traced. An extensive media station allows deepening.

The merchant Freuchen Gans (1560–1630) from Hamm , who, together with her husband Moises, did business across the empire, represents the equality of men and women in Jewish families . How uncertain the legal status of Jews was in the early modern era is shown by the capture of the traveling salesman Jacob Kaufman at Lembeck Castle in 1602. Further stations deal with the life of the educational reformer Alexander Haindorf (1784–1862) from Münster and the Bocholt textile entrepreneur Cosman Cohen (1836–1897 ) and the teacher and poet Jakob Loewenberg (1856–1929) from Salzkotten .

In addition, there are other paths in life that were shaped by the persecution during the Nazi era. Josef Dortort from Bottrop represents a successful emigration from Nazi Germany, Margot Spielmann from Gelsenkirchen for a failed escape. The rabbi and biblical scholar Benno Jacob (1862–1945) from Dortmund fled the National Socialists to London in 1938. The socialist Jeanette Wolff (1888–1976) survived an odyssey through various ghettos and camps. She became the most important Jewish-German post-war politician and was a member of the Bundestag for the SPD from 1951 to 1961. The Dortmund sculptor Benno Elkan (1877–1960) emigrated to London in 1933 and later created the large menorah for the Knesset . The textile merchant and soccer player Erich Gottschalk (1906–1996) from the Ruhr area was the only one of his family to survive the Holocaust. Marga Spiegel (1912–2014) from Ahlen went into hiding in the Münsterland in 1944 and published her life story Retter in der Nacht in 1965 . The writer Jenny Aloni (née Rosenbaum) (1917–1993) from Paderborn emigrated to Palestine in 1939 . Imo Moszkowicz (1925–2011) from Ahlen survived the Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp and later became a successful director and theater actor. Rolf Abrahamsohn (* 1925) from Marl survived several concentration camps and founded a textile trading company in Marl after the Second World War . The chairwoman of the Unna liberal Jewish community "HaKochaw", Alexandra Khariakova, stands for the Jewish presence in the Ruhr area, which was shaped by post-Soviet immigration.

Jewish religion and tradition

The Synagogue (2018)

The second large area of ​​the permanent exhibition, in which the Jewish religion and culture is illuminated, is located in two rooms . In addition to exhibits that were used for religious purposes (Judaica), there are everyday objects and objects for viewing. The exhibition area can be thematically divided into five sections: "Synagogue - Torah - Talmud", "Jewish festivals", "Food rules", "Writing and language", "Making the world better".

Synagogue - Torah - Talmud

The Jewish festival year: a table to touch and join in (2018)

This exhibition chapter deals with the synagogue , the Torah and the Talmud . The central exhibit here is a large leather Torah scroll, which dates from around 1830. In addition, be Talmud volumes Toraschmuck such as embroidered Torawimpel - coats - towers (Rimonim) - shields (Tass) and curtains ( Parochet ) and some Torazeiger ( Jad ) is shown.

The synagogue as the center of community life is explained using the model of a rural synagogue in Vreden that was destroyed in 1938 and a virtual reconstruction of the Dortmund synagogue .

The importance of the Talmud as a forum for interpretation and discussion “across space and time” is also explained.

Jewish festivals

Menorah, Germany, early 20th century

The second section presents everyday life, Jewish festivals and customs . The present is presented on a central table, characterized by interactive elements and tangible objects, while the historical objects are lined up on the edge of the room.

The representation of the Jewish holidays is arranged according to their sequence in the annual circle of the Jewish calendar . A shofar (wind instrument made of ram's horn) serves as an illustration for the Jewish New Year festival Rosh Hashanah (end of September) and the festival of reconciliation Yom Kippur (end of September), as the shofar is blown on both festivals. Several Hanukkah candlesticks and benches made of silver and brass refer to the 8-day festival of lights or temple dedication Hanukkah (December). The highlight of this station is a (not halachic ) Channu chandelier made of Lego, which was created in a cooperation project with a school class. On each day of the festival of lights, one more candle is lit in the candlestick, which is a reminder of a miracle in which a light is said to have shone for eight days, although oil was only filled for one day. The Passover festival is also on display and is illustrated with video excerpts from a documentation by the NDR and a stylized seder plate with its edible components. Other exhibits include examples of kosher dishes and cutlery. These exhibits include a silver and gilt partly Seder plate from 1680 and historical unleavened bread plates and cups Elias used for Passover.

The Sabbath is also shown as a weekly holiday in the center of the table . It is illustrated with items for the domestic ceremonies on the day of rest. The 19th century kiddush or hawdala cups and goblets made of silver and glass by the Münster rabbi Abraham Sutro (1784–1869) and a Shabbat candlestick from Rheine illustrate the Jewish traditions of Shabbat.

Also shown is the Jewish calendar , a lunisolar calendar with 12 months and a leap month that dates back to 3761 BC. d. Z. begins. How it works is explained in an interactive module.

A seven-armed bronze candlestick ( menorah ), which stood in the synagogue in Moers until 1929 , points to one of the most famous and oldest Jewish symbols that has adorned the Israeli national coat of arms since 1949 .

In addition to the general religious festivals, a further section deals with religious stations in the life of a Jew, the personal festivals - again using contemporary and historical examples. The Brit Mila circumcision ritual, which takes place eight days after birth, is explained using circumcision tools from the 18th century and mohel books that contain instructions on circumcision. Small stations, photos and audio sequences explain the passage rite of Judaism bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah for girls, and the wedding. A glass goblet belonging to a Chewra Kadisha is an impressive indication of the Jewish burial tradition.

Dining rules

A smaller chapter is devoted to the Jewish food rules, the kashrut . With the help of an interactive tool, the visitor is brought closer to a central element of Jewish dietary regulations, the ban on consuming milk and meat together. In addition, Kosher foods, cookbooks and advice on kosher nutrition are exhibited as examples of everyday Jewish culture.

The Kashrut includes even more far-reaching rules for everyday life that are only sketched out in the exhibition.

Writing and language

Another chapter is devoted to languages ​​and scripts that are important to the Jewish world. Hebrew is central here - with opportunities not just for children to try things out - and Yiddish . Using daily copies of Jewish newspapers, a historical Hebrew primer for children and audio samples of Yiddish music, the meaning of the two languages ​​for everyday culture and Jewish history is conveyed.

Make the world better

A new chapter in the permanent exhibition that opened in 2018 deals with the topic of Jewish charity: What rules does Jewish ethics follow, how is social commitment shown in the past and the present? Examples are the reflections of the Jewish scholar Maimonides , the Jewish Women's Association around Bertha Pappenheim and the contemporary tradition of the international Mitzvah Day , which is organized annually by the Central Council of Jews in Germany .

"From here"

Ten spotlights on Jewish personalities and institutions can be found on one wall of the main hall: the computer pioneer Stephanie Shirley / Buchthal from Dortmund, a Jewish 2nd Schalke chairman, Jewish miners, the singer Joseph Plaut and other unexpected stories. The high number of Jewish miners in the Ruhr area in the 1910s and 1920s is also one of the issues raised here. In turn, there is a reading corner that offers specializations.

National Socialism, Persecution and Jewish Self-Assertion

Jewish star

In the third part of the permanent exhibition, under the title "Break in Times", the hostility to Jews and, above all, the persecution and extermination of Westphalian Jews during the National Socialist era are discussed. Based on anti-Jewish legislation since 1933, key events such as the November 1938 pogroms are historically classified. A map provides information about the most important deportations from Westphalia and “Last Letters” give an insight into individual family fates.

The anti-Jewish discrimination contrasts with the Jewish reactions. Examples from the Nazi era as well as those from earlier years illustrate the various attempts by Jews to counter discrimination and persecution and to assert themselves. The “ Anti-Anti Blätter zur Abwehr ” from the 1920s, published by the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith and issued as an aid to argumentation against rampant anti-Semitism, are exhibited alongside the stories of individual Jewish people who resisted during the Nazi era .

Bottrop book find

A special exhibit in this context is the so-called “Bottrop book find”, a wicker basket discovered in 1989 with around 150 Jewish books and some newspapers, which had been in the attic of a Bottrop apartment building for 47 years . The books are instructions on the liturgy, the interpretation of the Tanakh , writings on Zionism as well as language and school books. They come from the property of several Jewish tenants of the house, most of them belonged to the Julius Dortort family, who were deported to the Riga ghetto in 1942 , according to the owner's signature. The biography of Josef Dortort is documented in detail in the chapter "Paths of Life from Westphalia".

Migration - Flight - Hope

The last exhibition section - located on the "bridge" above the foyer between the old and the new building - is dedicated to the topic of " migration ". It provides insights into Jewish migration from and to Westphalia around 1900, escapes in the 1930s, the Alija migration to Eretz Israel and the rescue of Jewish children with the " Kindertransport " as well as the Jewish immigration of the last 30 years from the successor states of the Soviet Union .

Exhibition track for children

An exhibition trail for children, for which the world-famous Dorsten girl Cornelia Funke drew the logo, guides children through the exhibition and explains special exhibits and interactive stations.

Temporary exhibitions

Part of Tisa von der Schulenburg's Holocaust cycle

From the rooms of the permanent exhibition, the visitor reaches the upper floor of the old building via a gallery, where temporary exhibitions take place. Between the changing exhibitions, self-produced “dockings” of the permanent exhibition (e.g. for Jewish festivals) are shown or the reed pen drawings of the Holocaust cycle by artist Tisa von der Schulenburg from the 1960s are juxtaposed with 14 drawings and watercolors by Auschwitz survivor Agnes Lukacz.

Previous exhibitions (selection)

  • 1993: Lithographs by Salvador Dalí : Aliya
  • 1994: Drawings and watercolors by Agnes Lukacz
  • 1994: July 20, 1944 . The Schulenburgs .
  • 1994: Lithographs by Marc Chagall
  • 1995: two friends. Pictures by Julo Levin and Franz Monjau
  • 1997: Meer Akselrod. A Jewish painter from Russia
  • 1998: a break in time. Jewish existence in Rhineland-Westphalia 1933–1945
  • 1999: Quiet gardens - eloquent stones. Photographs of Jewish cemeteries
  • 2000: Lights in the Dark - Raoul Wallenberg and the Rescue of the Budapest Jews 1944/45
  • 2000: Harry Weber: Jerusalem - City of Jews, Christians and Muslims.
  • 2000: The synagogue - the intersection of Jewish life
  • 2001: Julo Levin's 100th birthday
  • 2002: signs of everyday life. Jewish life in Germany today
  • 2002: Seligmann's books. About the late return of the property of Jewish refugees from Hanover
  • 2002: Erich Maria Remarque : The way back
  • 2002: Gisela Paul: Illustrations for poems by Jewish authors
  • 2002: Johann Gutenberg secondary school, Dülmen: With your shadows ...
  • 2003: Armand Edery: Ketubbot
  • 2003: Tomasz Samek: In the middle of Europe. Majdanek concentration camp (as an illustrated book: 2001, ISBN 83-907532-8-6 )
  • 2003: George Pusenkoff : Erased or not erased
  • 2004: Escaped the murder of Jews. Jewish survivors in Latvia and Lithuania . Reports from ghettos and concentration camps.
  • 2004: To submit means to lie. The writer and anarchist Erich Mühsam
  • 2004: Dirk Vogel, Pictures of the Present - Portraits of Jews in Germany
  • 2004: Seligmanns Bücher - On the late return of property of Jewish refugees from Hanover
  • 2005: Bożenna Biskupska: On the way
  • 2005: Dessa - a homage to the N. Israel department store, Berlin 1815–1939
  • 2006: The girls from room 28. L 410 Theresienstadt
  • 2006: Axel Baumgärtel : From Berlin via Vienna to Israel and Jordan.
  • 2007: Antonia M. Bußhoff: One star still has light - from the face of the other
  • 2007: David Bennett - Scenes from the Bible
  • 2008: Petr Ginz - Prague Diary 1941–1942
  • 2008: It was that simple. Jewish childhood and youth since 1945 in Austria, Switzerland and Germany
  • 2009: anti-Semitism? Anti-zionism? Israel criticism?
  • 2009: the sixties. Photographs by Linda McCartney
  • 2010: arrived ?! Life paths of Jewish immigrants
  • 2010: Alexander Dettmar, Painting to remember - Destroyed German Synagogues
  • 2010: People - Stones - Migrations. Present and past of Jewish life in the Rhineland and Westphalia
  • 2011: John Elsas , The Ghost Mountain - collages and watercolors
  • 2011: Grigory Berstein, Mammeloschen
  • 2011: André Citroën
  • 2011: Forgotten Records - Jewish Athletes
  • 2012: Nevin Toy-Unkel and Dirk Vogel, Faces of Immigration in the Revier
  • 2012: Blurred Traces - Remembrance and Commemoration of National Socialist injustice in Westphalia
  • 2012: 1, 2, 3 ... Billy Wilder . Photographs
  • 2013: Children of War - Encounters Today
  • 2013: Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita
  • 2013: The Judenschule - photographs by Thomas Sandberg
  • 2014: Oscar Troplowitz , owner of Beiersdorf and art patron
  • 2014/2015: Local Studies. Westphalian Jews and their neighbors
  • 2015: Outlaws. Sinti and Jews in the work of Otto Pankok
  • 2016: Home seeker. Shoah survivors today
  • 2016: Yury Kharchenko - Paths of the Invisible
  • 2017: “A story of annihilation and survival. The Holocaust in the Galician Oil Field "
  • 2017: Martin Luther and Judaism. Review and departure
  • 2017: 25 years of the Jewish Museum Westphalia
  • 2017/2018: " Fritz Bauer . The prosecutor - Nazi crimes in court "
  • 2018: " Marlene Dietrich . The diva. Your attitude. And the Nazis. "
  • 2019: Miss Rabbi Regina Jonas
  • 2019: In the face of annihilation. Work and resistance in the ghettos 1941–1944
  • 2019: And heaven in the window. The survival story of Johanna Reiss

Museum education

Ground floor plan

The museum offers themed group tours for adults, young people and school groups. Since 2005 there have been free "open tours" about once a month. Also for children of primary school age there are special tours with stories, music and games for the age-appropriate introduction to the subject, in which individual items like the hat tipping or phylacteries tefillin can be touched and tried on. In a practice room you can get to know Hebrew characters with the help of templates.

For school classes in secondary levels I and II, there is an offer of individually adapted study days, on which, for example, topics related to Judaism can be independently developed and films can be discussed as part of history or religion lessons. During the holidays, holiday workshops are offered for children between the ages of 8 and 12, in which the topics of the museum are conveyed in detail but in a child-friendly manner.

Lehrhaus

Library

Based on the tradition of the Jewish teaching houses, the museum sees itself as a place of teaching and learning and has educational and cultural offers ready. Every six months, the museum, in cooperation with the Dorsten adult education center and other partners, develops a cultural program with lectures by museum staff and external speakers on the Jewish religion and tradition in the past and present, film screenings and readings of Jewish literature. The association also offers regular excursions and study trips. Programs and a dedicated website inform the public about this part of the work. Further training for teachers and other multipliers is also part of the profile; occasionally a series of “Jewish Culture Days” (for example on Jewish films or Jewish literature) is organized.

The museum has developed several traveling exhibitions and is currently offering two of them (“The Synagogue - the intersection of Jewish life”, “Arrived ?! Life paths of Jewish immigrants”) for lending to clubs, adult education centers, schools, parishes and similar organizations.

In the rear extension of the old building there is also an extensive reference library with more than 5,000 books, magazines and newspapers on everything to do with Judaism. The inventory includes reference works such as the Encyclopaedia Judaica , works on religion, culture, history and persecution of the Jews, Zionism and Israel as well as Jewish literature; One focus is the Jewish regional history.

A selection of around 1,000 books of Jewish literature is available in the foyer of Rachel Salamander's Jewish bookshop in Munich . These include basic works on Judaism, but also current and timeless literature by Jewish authors such as Franz Kafka , Wladimir Kaminer or the editions of Anne Frank's diary as well as biographies of well-known Jews. Israel travel guides, Hebrew- German dictionaries, CDs and Judaica are also available.

The magazine of the sponsoring association and the Schalom Museum appears twice a year and provides information about Jewish life in Westphalia, Germany and the world as well as important events and developments in the museum. An e-mail newsletter is published monthly, which disseminates event and media tips.

See also

literature

  • Johanna Eichmann: The Jewish Museum Westphalia. In: Home calendar of glory Lembeck and Dorsten. 52, 1993, ZDB -ID 636499-8 , pp. 46-50.
  • Johanna Eichmann: Israel as opposite of the Catholic Church in Germany after 1945. In: Folker Siegert (Ed.): Israel as opposite. From the ancient Orient to the present. Studies on the history of an eventful coexistence. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-54204-6 , pp. 515-523 ( writings of the Institutum Iudaicum Delitzschianum 5), (can be viewed in Google Book Search and Amazon Booksearch).
  • Johanna Eichmann: Lively Lehrhaus. The Jewish Museum Westphalia in Dorsten. In: Ministry for Labor, Social Affairs and Urban Development, Culture and Sport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Zeitzeugen. Encounters with Jewish life in North Rhine-Westphalia. Düsseldorf 1998, pp. 113-116.
  • Johanna Eichmann, Thomas Ridder: The Jewish Museum Westphalia in Dorsten wants above all to provide clarification. In: Yearbook Westphalia. NF 51, 1997, ISSN  0724-0643 , pp. 42-51.
  • Norbert Reichling: A joint effort. From the research group to the Jewish Museum Westphalia. In: Shalom. Newspaper of the Jewish Museum Westphalia, No. 71 / November 2012, pp. 9–10 (PDF; 5.4 MB).
  • Wolf Stegemann (Ed.): Jewish Museum Westphalia. Documentation center and training center for Jewish history and religion in Dorsten. Self-published by the Association for Jewish History and Religion, Dorsten 1992, ISBN 3-928676-04-1 (museum catalog ).
  • KC: A joint effort. ( Memento of March 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: Jüdische Zeitung. December 2007.
  • Volker Jakob: A house with charisma. Jewish Museum Westphalia. In: Westfalenspiegel issue 1, 2007
  • Svetlana Jebrak, Norbert Reichling (Ed.): Arrived ?! Life paths of Jewish immigrants. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941450-23-3 .
  • Johanna Eichmann, Norbert Reichling, Thomas Ridder: From Bar Mitzvah to Zionism. Jewish traditions and ways of life in Westphalia. Published by the Jewish Museum Westphalia. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89534-673-6 .
  • Thomas Ridder: The Jewish Museum Westphalia in Dorsten. History and task. In: Forum Industriedenkmalpflege und Geschichtskultur 2, 1997, ISSN  1436-7661 , pp. 28-30.
  • Elisabeth Cosanne-Schulte-Huixel (Ed.): From Dorsten to Chicago. Lectures and contributions of the Eisendrath Familiy Reunion 2010 in Dorsten / Germany, Dorsten 2012
  • Elisabeth Cosanne-Schulte-Huxel (Ed.) “My dear Ilsekind”. With the Kindertransport to Sweden. Letters to a rescued daughter , Essen 2013
  • Iris Nölle-Hornkamp (Ed.): Local history. Westphalian Jews and their neighbors, Essen 2014
  • Norbert Reichling: Limits of Memory - Chances of Historicization. Observations from the perspective of a regional museum of Jewish culture , in: Forum Geschichtskultur Ruhr, issue 2/2016
  • Jewish Museum Westphalia (Ed.): 25 years, 26 moments , Dorsten 2017

Web links

Commons : Jewish Museum Westphalia  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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