Yalla.
Arab-Jewish Encounters
29.04.2026 - 28.02.2027 ,
Jüdisches Museum München (Jewish Museum Munich)
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The history of Jews in North Africa and Western Asia is characterized by the close cultural proximity to a diverse Arabic environment and by mutual enrichment, just as much as by fractures, exclusion, and violence. It tells of neighbourly relations and exchanges, of common languages, musical traditions and ways of thinking. In the course of the 20th century, however, this divided past was increasingly idealized or suppressed ideologically.
These questions of self-image and historical memory form the starting point of the exhibition. Seven artists of Jewish origin with family roots in different regions in North Africa and West Asia explore Jewish identities between these poles in their oeuvres.
Their works combine personal memories with historical experiences and tell of exile and loss, of social marginalization and discrepancies in the historical narrative.
Last edited on 02.05.2026
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