Last November 9, Frankfurt’s new Jewish museum was opened. The event was planned to coincide with the Kristallnacht commemorations, which were held throughout the Federal Republic of Germany.
Of the three permanent exhibitions of the museums, one is devoted to “Jewish Life-Jewish Festivals”: the other two tell the history of Frankfurt’s Jewish community from 1100 to 1800 and from 1800-1950. respectively.
For the opening of the museum, ceremonial objects of art and illuminated Hebrew manuscripts remnants of the rich treasures of Frankfurts old Jewish Museum, the Museum fuer juedische Alternemer (Museum of Jewish Antiquities), which are now dispersed in Jewish museums in Israel and in the U.S. were brought back to Franfurt to be put on view laong with the new exhibits.
Frankfurt’s former Musuem fuer juedische Altertnemer was orgaznied by the Gezelschaft zur Erforsshcung juedischer Kunstden