Jewish Museum of Switzerland

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Jewish Museum of Switzerland
Entrance JMS
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place Basel
opening 1966
management
Naomi Lubrich
Website
Room view "Kult"
Room view of the permanent exhibition in 1966, Jewish Museum of Switzerland

The Jewish Museum of Switzerland in Basel gives an overview of the religious and everyday history of the Jews in Basel and Switzerland using objects of rite, art and everyday culture from the Middle Ages to the present day.

history

The Jewish Museum of Switzerland in Basel was opened in 1966 as the first Jewish museum in the German-speaking area after the Second World War . The initiative came from members of the Jewish association Espérance (a chevra kadischa ) who discovered ritual objects from the Basel Judaica collection during a visit to the “Monumenta Judaica” exhibition in Cologne in 1963/64. They decided to display these items in a suitable room in Basel.

When the museum opened in 1966, the Jewish Museum of Switzerland consisted of two rooms at Kornhausgasse 8, which interior designer Christoph Bernoulli expanded in a functional style. The founding director was Katia Guth-Dreyfus, who ran the museum for four decades. In 2010 she was replaced by Gaby Knoch-Mund. In 2015 Naomi Lubrich took over the management.

collection

The first objects that were shown in the Jewish Museum of Switzerland come from the Judaica collection of the Swiss Museum of Folklore (now Museum der Kulturen Basel). In the following years the collection was expanded to include objects from Basel and the Upper Rhine region, from the two Surbtal Jewish villages of Endingen and Lengnau, and from the rest of Switzerland and Europe .

The main focus is on silver ceremonial objects, richly embroidered textiles from the 17th to 20th centuries and documents on the cultural history of the Jews in Switzerland . The monumental medieval tombstones and the Basel Hebrew prints are historically unique. Documents on the Zionist Congresses in Basel and original letters from Theodor Herzl , the author of “ Der Judenstaat ”, show Basel as a city that made world politics. The museum also collects contemporary Judaica, art and everyday objects from Switzerland.

Exhibitions

  • 1976: 10 years of the Jewish Museum in Switzerland
  • 1999: Tefillin
  • 1999–2000: signs of the zodiac
  • 2000: (The Rabbis Ris. A family in the region)
  • 2002: Mezuzot
  • 2002–2003: Meals on Shabbat
  • 2003–2004: Jewish wedding contracts from the Braginsky Collection, Zurich
  • 2004–2005: Anne Frank. A family story across borders
  • 2005–2006: Chest on the move. A Jewish family story from Frankfurt and Basel
  • 2006–2007: Moved into the light. Collection additions from the last 10 years
  • 2007–2008: Endingen-Lengnau. On the trail of the Jewish rural communities in Aargau
  • 2009–2009: strange. Objects that step out of line
  • 2010–2016: CONGRATULATIONS. Special exhibition for the 150th birthday of Theodor Herzl
  • 2010–2014: "... and Hanna and Sarah". Installation in the courtyard by Reneé Levy
  • 2011: From new moon to full moon
  • 2011–2012: At the transition. Bar and Bat Mitzvah
  • 2012: 1001 amulet. Protection and Magic - Belief or Superstition?
  • 2014–2016: Wanted. Found. Partnership and love in Judaism
  • 2016: Swiss Jews. 150 years of equality / voices for emancipation (installation in the courtyard)
  • 2016: anniversary! The Jewish Museum of Switzerland turns 50
  • 2017: Altland. Theodor Herzl's European heritage
  • 2017: Art according to Chagall. The century after the breakthrough (in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Basel)
  • 2018–2019: The Diary. How Otto Frank brought Anne's voice from Basel into the world
  • 2019: ISREALITIES. Seven photographic trips
  • 2019-2020: passports, profiteers, police. A Swiss war secret

See also

Publications

  • 2003: Jewish wedding contracts from Italy.
  • 2006: Chest on the move. A Jewish family story from Frankfurt and Basel.
  • 2006: Moved into the light. Collection additions from the last 10 years.
  • 2007: Endingen-Lengnau. On the trail of the Jewish rural communities in Aargau.
  • 2010: Congratulations! Special exhibition for the 150th birthday of Theodor Herzl.
  • 2011: Gaby Knoch-Mund (Red.): At the transition. Bar and Bat Mitzvah. How do Jewish children and young people grow up? Basel, ISBN 978-3-03-303025-1 .
  • 2013: 1001 amulet. Protection and magic - belief or superstition.
  • 2014: Gaby Knoch-Mund: Wanted. Found. Partnership and love in Judaism in 2 volumes. Basel, ISBN 978-3-033-04633-7 (37 + 80 pages).
  • 2018: Caspar Battegay, Naomi Lubrich: Jewish Switzerland. 50 objects tell history / Jewish Switzerland: 50 Objects Tell their Stories . Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2018, ISBN 978-3-85616-847-6 (231 pages).
  • 2020: Fabio Luks: CHAI - חי. Or when tombstones tell of life / CHAI -חי. Or when Gravestones Speak of Life. edition clandestin, Biel, ISBN 978-3-905297-99-7 (48 pages).
  • 2020: pandemic and poetry. A Jewish lexicon. edition clandestin, Biel, ISBN 978-3-907262-08-5 (84 pages).

literature

  • Simone Rosenkranz: Torah pennants , dice , painted wooden boards and cattle shears. The latest additions to the Jewish Museum's collection in a special exhibition. In: Swiss monthly books . Journal of Politics Economy Culture. Issue 11/12, November / December 2006, p. 52 f. ( schweizermonatshefte.ch [limited preview]).
  • Ludwig Kahn: The Jewish Museum of Switzerland in Basel. His story. Basel 1968, OCLC 778836921 (8 pages).
  • Heidi Brunnschweiler Spoendlin: Make known about your nationality, the treasure of your religion, your tradition!” On the collection and museum history of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland in Basel. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde . Volume 103 (2003), pp. 149-182 ( scan from E-Periodica ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jewish Museum of Switzerland. In: travelguide.michelin.com. August 16, 2018, accessed on August 20, 2020 .
  2. About Us - Jewish Museum of Switzerland (EN). In: juedisches-museum.ch. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
  3. ^ History. In: mkb.ch. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
  4. ^ Jewish Museum of Switzerland. In: aejm.org. Retrieved August 20, 2020 (American English).
  5. ^ Jewish Museum of Switzerland | Museums - museums Basel. In: museenbasel.ch. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
  6. ^ Jewish Museum of Switzerland. In: basel.com. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
  7. Chai. EDITION CLANDESTIN, accessed on August 20, 2020 (content information ).
  8. Pandemic and Poetry. EDITION CLANDESTIN, accessed on August 20, 2020 (content information ).

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 ′ 23 "  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 0"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and ten thousand eight hundred and ninety  /  267.32 thousand