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The new Mission Statement

The New Mission Statement of the Jewish Museums Hohenems

In a participatory process with the broad involvement of the Advisory Board, Board of Directors, sponsors, friends of the museum, our employees and experts from the cultural and museum world, we developed a new mission statement for the Jewish Museum Hohenems, which was adopted by the Board of Directors on April 23, 2025. The previous mission statement dates back to the year 2000 and has been overtaken by the development of our museum over the last 25 years, so that a new formulation was overdue. Thank you to everyone who has been involved in the intensive discussions about this over the last few months!

Mission statement Jewish Museum Hohenems 04 2025 (pdf) ►

In Memoriam Uri Tänzer

1938-2025

No one who has ever met Uri Tänzer can forget his quiet yet profound presence. As a founding member of the American Friends of the Jewish Museum Hohenems, he served as treasurer for so many years and repeatedly ensured that descendants of Hohenems Jews supported “their” museum.

But above all, we remember him as a loving person who could not hide his emotion at being loved himself. His modesty and wisdom moved many people. On April 20, Uri Hugo Taenzer passed away peacefully at Samaritan Hospice in Voorhees, New Jersey. May the earth be light to him.

Uri reached the age of 86. He is survived by his beloved wife Cantor Marlena Taenzer, his sister Ruth Loose, his daughter Laura Aberant (Kevin), his granddaughters Elizabeth and Catherine, his niece Michelle, many cousins, and too many friends and acquaintances to mention. Born in Tel Aviv in 1938 to Fritz and Margot Taenzer, and the grandson of Hohenems Rabbi Aron Tänzer, his family emigrated to the United States in the early 1950s, settling in Vineland, New Jersey. Uri then attended Rutgers-Camden where he earned his BS and JD degrees and was part of one of the law school’s first graduating classes.

After graduation, he moved to Burlington County, where he practiced law for seven decades and served as Willingboro and Burlington Township District Court Judge in the 1970s. He was a passionate supporter of many civic and charitable organizations, including Rotary International (past president of the Willingboro Club and recipient of the Business/Professional Person of the Year Award), the Rutgers Alumni Federation (Meritorious Service Award), Burlington County Bar Association (president 1983-84), National Liberty Museum (patron), and most notably, the American Friends of the Jewish Museum in Hohenems.

He will be remembered as a man whose generosity and quiet humor was infectious and who gave his time, love and support to all who knew him.

The legacy of his grandfather, who maintained throughout his life that Judaism was above all an ethical value, was alive in him.

On April 23, Uri was laid to rest at Alliance Cemetery in Norma, New Jersey. The moving funeral service in Cherry Hill was attended by countless friends of his fulfilled life.

 

New exhibition

The history of Arab-Jewish culture(s) and coexistence goes back centuries, to the pre-Islamic tribal societies populating Arabia. A long history of relations – sometimes romanticized, sometimes forgotten, even repressed and demonized – is waiting to be discovered, such as Jewish life under the Islamic rule of what are now the Arab countries as well as on the Iberian Peninsula (al-Andalus), in the Ottoman Empire, and under the influence of European colonial interests.

Your visit

Here you can find out everything about your visit to the Jewish Museum Hohenems: information for your journey, admission prices, opening hours, group offers and public guided tours.