'Jew in Box' exhibit in Berlin triggers controversy

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By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT
03/30/2013 21:34

Museum exhibit allows visitor to ask questions of Jewish participants who respond from inside glass booth.


Jew in a Box' exhibit at Berlin Museum. Photo: Courtesy Facebook

BERLIN –The Jewish Museum in Germany’s capital city Berlin triggered fierce criticism last week for its exhibit “The Whole Truth... everything you always wanted to know about Jews” because the installation encloses Jews in a glass box.

The publicly funded museum opened the exhibit as a provocatively pedagogical way of reaching non-Jewish visitors to explain the meaning of Jewishness and Judaism, according to the management of the museum.

The exhibit, however, has unleashed blow-back because it allegedly dehumanizes Jews.

The British Daily Mail quoted Eran Levy, an Israeli who lives in Berlin. “It’s a horrible thing to do – completely degrading and not helpful,” he said. He added “the Jewish Museum absolutely missed the point if they wanted to do anything to improve the relations between Germans and Jews.”

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