Michal Friedlander is a cultural historian and museum curator. She has been

Curator A curator (from , meaning 'to take care') is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the particular ins ...

of Judaica and Applied Arts at the

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since 2001, developing the museum collections and curating exhibitions, both as a co-curator and alone (see below).

Early life

Friedlander is one of three daughters of the rabbi

Albert Friedlander Albert Hoschander Friedlander OBE (10 May 1927 – 8 July 2004) was a rabbi and teacher. Early life and education Albert Friedlander was born on 10 May 1927 in Berlin, the son of a textile broker, Alex Friedlander (d. 1956) and Sali Friedland ...

and his wife Evelyn, and although born in New York City grew up in the United Kingdom.

Education and career

Friedlander studied Oriental Studies (classical and modern Hebrew, Aramaic) at

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, graduating with a MA (Cantab.) degree. A specialist in the Applied Arts, much of her work focuses on the history and culture of German Jews and on the relationship between material culture and identity. Friedlander has worked in museums in

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and

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, curating numerous exhibitions and publishing on a variety of

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themes.

Selected exhibitions

* The Whole Truth – Everything you always wanted to know about Jews, Jewish Museum Berlin, 2013 * Tonalities: Jewish women ceramicists from Germany after 1933, Jewish Museum Berlin, 2013 * Kosher & Co. – On Food and Religion, Jewish Museum Berlin, 2009 * Chrismukka – Stories of Christmas and Hanukka (aka Weihnukka), Jewish Museum Berlin, 2005 * 10 + 5 = G-d – The Power of Signs and Numbers, Jewish Museum Berlin, 2004 * Souvenirs from Israel, 1948-1998, Judah L Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA, 1998 * Jewish Pictorial Carpets from the Anton Felton Collection, London, Judah L Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA, 1997 * Forging an identity: The Art of the Yemenite Silversmith, Judah L Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA, 1996 * Blood on the Doorstep – The AIDS mezuzah, Judah L Magnes Museum, Berkeley CA, World AIDS Day, 1 December 1996.

Selected publications

* "The Iron Shield of David: The First World War and the creation of German Jewish markers of patriotism and memory" in Gideon Reuveni et al., (ed.), The Jewish Experience of the First World War, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 * Jüdische Allgemeine article, 2018 * "Vasen statt Milchflaschen – Eva Samuel, Hedwig Grossmann und Hanna Charag-Zuntz: die Töpferpionierinnen in Palästina, nach 1932" in exh. cat. Avantgarde für den Alltag, Berlin: Bröhan-Museum, 2013 * "The skeptical God-seeker" in R. B. Kitaj (1932-2007) - The Retrospective, Cologne: Kerber Verlag, 2012 * Kosher & Co. – On Food and Religion, (co-editor and contributor) Nicolai Verlag 2009 * "Beyond the River - Longing, ambivalence and the Jewish picture of Babylon" in Babylon Mythos und Wahrheit, Pergamonmuseum, Berlin, 2008 * "Maccabee® - The branding of a Jewish Hero," Weihnukka/Chrismukka, Nicolai Verlag, 2005 * "10 + 5 = G-d" – The Power of Signs and Numbers (co-editor, contributor) Cologne, DuMont Verlag, 2004 * "Liturgie in der jüdischen Tradition" in Petra Werner ed., exh. cat. Jüdische Handschriften. Restaurieren. Bewahren. Präsentieren. Teil 1: Jüdische Kultur im Spiegel der Berliner Sammlung,Berlin: Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 2002 * "Women in Jewish Ritual Art" in Carolyn Hessel, ed., Blessed is the Daughter, USA: Schreiber Publishing, Inc., 1999 * "Village Jews, The Example of Ichenhausen, München" : Haus der Bayer. Geschichte, 1991 - Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Official Website
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External links

- Jewish Museum Berlin Official Website- CNN news piece

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Friedlander, Michal Living people Alumni of Churchill College, Cambridge Year of birth missing (living people)