If you are starting to trace your family history and would like to find out more about researching your Jewish ancestors, come to one of our workshops, which offer a fantastic opportunity to consult standard texts, swap information and get advice from experts.

Please bring your family tree with you.

Join us for this pre-Purim festival extravaganza making masks and gregger (shakers). Join artist and storyteller, Jaquie Feldman, to dress up and make some noise to the dramatic story of Esther. Suitable for all the family Drop in, advance booking recommended Free with museum admission (£7.50 per adult and £3.50 per child 5-16yrs and free for under 5s)

Join BBC journalist and broadcaster Robin Lustig for a conversation with photographer Judah Passow about his current exhibition No Place Like Home at the Jewish Museum.

Passow will discuss his year long project exploring the rich diversity of contemporary British Jewish life, and share some of the fascinating stories behind the images.

Followed by Q&A with the audience.

To mark International Women’s Day, The Jewish Museum will celebrate the lives of Jewish – and non-Jewish – women who made an impact on the Jewish community in London's East End.

Follow Blue Badge guide Rachel Kolsky through sites in Whitechapel and Spitalfields associated with Alice Model and her maternity hospital, the birthplace of Hannah Billig (AKA the Angel of Cable Street), Miriam Moses and her youth work, the philanthropy of the Rothschild ladies and the actresses of the Yiddish theatre.

Meeting point provided on booking

Join us on a family friendly guided tour of Judah Passow’s photographic exhibition and try out our special trail to explore new things, look, draw, chat and learn. Suitable for 5-11 year olds

Mark Godfrey, curator of Tate Modern’s highly acclaimed retrospective Panorama talks about Gerhard Richter’s life and work and the influence of the Holocaust on his works.

Exclusive to Friends of the Jewish Museum

Click! Invites you to explore photography and the wonderful work of photojournalist Judah Passow. Join photographer Miranda Lopatkin as we turn our lenses to investigating contemporary images of Jewish life – together with your adult we will investigate Passow’s images, learn about photography, and create our own portraiture shots! This is an intergenerational workshop for all your family to produce striking results together.

Ages: 6-11yrs with an adult

Please Note: You will need to bring your own camera to the workshop (and connection cable)!

Event in partnership with JCC

Join us on a family friendly guided tour of Judah Passow’s photographic exhibition and try out our special trail to explore new things, look, draw, chat and learn. Suitable for 5-11 year olds

Are you an aspiring photographer? Working on a portfolio or just taking pictures for fun? Join us for a four-week photography course and create professional shots inspired by Judah Passow’s exhibition No Place Like home.

Learn how to discover fascinating subjects, find great angles, create interesting compositions and edit your images. Led by published photographer and tutor Kevin Biderman, including a master class with No Place Like Home photographer Judah Passow.

Sundays 15, 22, 29 April and 6 May

Bring your own camera. All levels welcome.

Places limited - booking required.

Join us for a walk through the historic industrial complexes of Hackney Wick and Fish Island, now home to one of the most concentrated artistic hubs in Europe. Artists, designers and cafes fill the old factories and warehouses and the stories include those of Eton Mission Boys Club, Clarnico sweets and Forman's smoked salmon.

Our guide Rachel Kiolsky will lead you along the tow path that skirts the Olympic site area, ending on the Greenway with a marvellous view of the Olympic Park where you will see the completed Olympic Stadium, Aquatics Centre, the Orbit and the other stadia behind them.

The area has a rich history and en route you will hear about the its fascinating industrial past and, of course, the preparation for the 2012 Olympic Games themselves, the massive construction and remediation project and also the the legacy that the Games will leave behind.

Meeting point provided on booking.

This brand new Jewish Museum tour offers a rare opportunity to discover the many members of the British Jewish elite, for whom Willesden Cemetery is a last home.

Their varied stories are fascinating, ranging from the first Jewish MP and Lord, both Rothschilds, the discovery of DNA, diamond Randlords, the first Singer’s Prayer Book and one of the UK’s largest furniture manufacturers.

Meeting place provided on booking.

What was the East End 100 like years ago? And how was it for children? Find out what the best things and the worst things were about living in the East End, where Jewish immigrants lived, what kind of jobs they did, and how they helped each other.

Led by teacher, writer and tour guide, David Rosenberg, this walk will take you past surprising landmarks in forgotten alleyways and streets and introduce the characters and incidents that made up the old Jewish East End.

Suitable for children aged 9+ accompanied by an adult.

Meeting point provided on booking.

Piccadilly became 'Rothschild Row' when they made their money in the City but spent it on opulent homes in London's West End. Join Blue Badge Guide Rachel Kolsky to discover the sites of the homes of Lionel, Leo, Ferdy, Alfred and their neighbours including the Duke of Wellington and Disraeli and hear the stories of love and marriage, business and charity.

Meeting point provided on booking.

Come with the Friends of the Jewish Museum to Bletchley Park, Home of the Codebreakers. In the library of the historic mansion we will hear from WW2 codebreaker, and Friend of the Jewish Museum, Rolf Noskwith, about his time at Bletchley, during which advances were made that changed the course of the war, and made history.

Following this talk we will have the chance to explore the museum and the grounds of the park, the ‘huts’ and the remarkable history of the former ‘Station X’
Tea and coffee provided. Travel to Bletchley not included. Find out more about Bletchley here

Exclusive to Friends of the Jewish Museum

This walk, led by Blue Badge guide Rachel Kolsky, evokes the memories of Eastern Europe Jewish refugees who lived in East London in the late 19th century.

Alongside the old synagogues, schools and soup kitchens, we will hear the stories of other immigrant groups, the Huguenots and Bengalis, who also made this area their home.

This classic tour ends with a special visit to Sandys Row Synagogue. Established in 1854, it is the oldest Ashkenazi synagogue in London and the last remaining synagogue in Spitalfields. The newly renovated Sandys Row is still a home to a lively congregation and this is your opportunity to hear its fascinating history and see the refurbished interior.

Meeting point provided on booking

Join our Blue Badge Guide Rachel Kolsky to discover the memories of this early north London Jewish suburb, now intermingled with regeneration and the growing orthodox community.

With its neighbourhood park, numerous synagogues and shops, this tour provides an insight into the migration from the East End and community initiatives including maternity homes, schools and social housing associated with communal leaders such as the Bearstead and Schonfeld families.

Meeting place provided on booking

Jewish life in Hackney was once rich and vibrant.

Join our Blue Badge Guide Rachel Kolsky on a journey from Hackney Central to Dalston, discovering the stories of synagogues, boxing rings, Rothschild dwellings, socialist movements and the array of singers and writers for whom Hackney was a childhood home.

End at the lively Ridley Road market where bagels were once sold amid the heckling of the Fascists.

Meeting point provided on booking

Explore the lesser visited area East of Brick Lane with our Blue Badge Guide Rachel Kolsky.

Surrounded by the wonderful taste and smell of bagels, the sights and sounds of the street markets and designer stores you can really feel the memories of the Jewish community flood back. There are synagogues, markets, a maternity home and Hughes Mansions whose residents were almost entirely Jewish when tragedy struck in 1945.

The tour ends at the closed Ashkenazi cemetery in Brady Street, which is opening up specially for our tour.

Meeting place

In the year of the Diamond Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth II, join our Blue Badge Guide Rachel Kolsky for our tour in and around Westminster, following in the footsteps of British monarchs (and a republican), past and present.

Through churches, palace and parks you will discover some background to 'the Firm', royal personalities and at the same time uncover Jewish connections through friendships, heritage and honours bestowed.

Meeting place provided on booking

Join our Blue Badge Guide Rachel Kolsky for this fascinating tour of the National Portrait Gallery, where you will discover members of the Jewish community who became distinguished British subjects in the fields of politics, finance, industry and culture.

Their stories and those of the artists reflect the wider story of the development of the Jewish community in the UK.

Meeting point provided on booking