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The Eisendrath Family Fund for Regional History
The Eisendrath Family Fund for Regional History (EFFRH) was set up in 2023 to support The Jewish Museum of Westphalia in its mission to research, preserve and exhibit the regional Jewish history and to liaise with descendants of Westphalian Jewry in the diaspora.
While the Museum’s learning, exhibition and events programme also introduces its visitors to Judaism and the wider Jewish cultures in Germany and Europe in past and present, the Museum has a strong regional remit, which is reflected in its name. The collection encompasses mostly objects from Westphalia, the permanent display looks at Jewish history through a regional lens. Regional history is therefore an important part of the curator's occupation, yet there are no designated public means to fund this.
With a donation to the EFFRH you can therefore make a lasting contribution to our curatorial work. Your support enables us to deliver new exhibitions, preserve and extend our collection as well as expanding our research on the history of Westphalian Jewry.
Source material and research
This website should be seen as a “work in progress”: Here, we are publishing the results of earlier research from the 1980s und the 1990s. Since then we have added new pieces of research and expect to continue to do so in the future.
If you have additional sources, photos and documents or if you can contribute an unpublished “Eisendrath story”, we look forward to hearing from you.
The museum will use the source material and knowledge thereby collected for future exhibitions and publications on the history of the Eisendrath family in its wider historical context, the history of migration and of Westphalian Jewry more generally.
Contact:
Elisabeth Cosanne-Schulte-Huxel
2nd Chair of the Museum’s Association
schulte-huxel@jmw-dorsten.de
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