Research
The Danish Jewish Museum emphasizes a close connection between the museum's collection, research and dissemination. The museum's research projects therefore involve the active collection of objects and source material to illuminate central issues under the museum's area of responsibility.
Knowledge center with research in the collection: In addition to the museum's own research projects and publications, the museum functions as a knowledge center that regularly receives visits from researchers and students from both at home and abroad, who research the museum's collection or consult the museum's knowledge and library.
House research: The museum wants to house new research. Specifically, we offer study places to students who want to do research within the museum's work area. Contact us on info@jewmus.dk if you have a project or task you would like to write within our area.
Two examples of in-house research: In the autumn of 2019, the museum housed a thesis from the University of Copenhagen that will examine the museum's collection of Torah pennants. The museum has previously housed the research project The Scandinavian Psalter (London, British Library, Ms. Additional 17868): Representations of Jews and Devotional Practices in Thirteenth-Century Denmark by Marina Vidas, supported by the Ny Carlsberg Foundation.
Visit: Groups from higher education institutions and universities have free access to the museum during normal opening hours when they are accompanied by a teacher. In addition, the museum offers special tours outside opening hours.
Academic assignments and theses
Here you can find academic assignments and theses about Danish Jewish history and the Danish Jewish Museum. Other theses and theses can be requested from the university libraries.
Please contact us if you need materials, empirical data or want to write in collaboration with the museum.
Andersen, Carina
The symbolism of architecture - An exhibition analysis of the Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen
University of Copenhagen, 2009.
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Bludnikow, Philip
"O cervix rigida!" Perceptions of Jews in Ælnoth's chronicle
University of Copenhagen, 2020.
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Chamberlain, Karen L.
History on the Internet - about the immigration of Eastern European Jews to Denmark in the period 1904-1917
RUC, 2002.
Christoffersen, Ida, Lise Korsgaard and Stine Thuge
A museum in its time: the Danish Jewish Museum as a place of remembrance
RUC, 2005.
Elgaard, Kaj, Pernille Olsen & Line Hartvig Rasch
Nathan Levin Fränkel
University of Copenhagen, 2017.
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