From the Jewish Museum Hohenems:

When the then chairman of the Jewish Community, Paul Grosz, was asked many years ago what he thought of the establishment of a Jewish Museum, he asked a bitter counter-question. Whether Jews should be marveled at there “like taxidermied Indians“?

Today, there are over 120 Jewish museums worldwide. However, even the definition of their designating adjective is by no means uniform. There are those to whom the institution itself is a Jewish one, to others the institution’s topic is Judaism – from the most diverse perspectives. For some, the adjective “Jewish” is unambiguous, for others, it is not just ambiguous but even full of contradictions. The question of definitions and perspectives are decisive for content and practices of museums – and thus also on the sovereignty of interpretation of what is “Jewish” in a social public sphere. The exhibition illuminates the history and present of the institution “Jewish Museum,” its collections and its canon – and thus reflects the urgent question of its role in society in the future.

An exhibition of the Jewish Museum Hohenems, in cooperation with the Saxon State Collections of Ethnography Leipzig, Dresden, and Herrnhut

More Information: https://www.jm-hohenems.at/en/exhibitions/current-exhibition

Staff:
Curators
Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek (Wien), Hannes Sulzenbacher (Wien)
Project Coordination
Anika Reichwald (Hohenems)
Exhibition architecture
Martin Kohlbauer, Stefanie Diwischek (Wien)
Exhibition design
atelier stecher, Roland Stecher, Thomas Matt (Götzis)
Archive
Raphael Einetter (Hohenems)
Education
Angelika Purin, Judith Niederklopfer-Würtinger, Claudia Klammer (Hohenems)
Public relations work
Birgit Sohler (Hohenems)
Assistance
Christian Chizzola, Melanie Jussel, Jessica Strobl (Hohenems)
Translations
Lilian Dombrowski (Ra’anana)
Editing
Rudolf Jelinek (Wien), Peter Niedermair (Lustenau)
Office
Gerlinde Fritz (Hohenems)

Exhibition Production and Printing
Museom Service GmbH (Wien)
Technical Installations
Dietmar Pöschko (Hohenems), Dietmar Pfanner (Andelsbuch)
Printing Matters
Thurnher Druckerei (Rankweil)
Painting work
Malerwerkstätte Alfons Mathis (Hohenems)