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In her lecture "Change and Compexity. How do Jewish Museums deal with their own Past?" Reese Greenberg addresses different key issues for museum practice in Contemporary Jewish museums. How do Jewish museums remember their own past? Being agents of both Jewish memory and contemporary discourse about Jewish culture, Jewish museums are themselves part of the story they tell. How do we appreciate our won history as a part of Jewish history and culture in Europe – and The United States? How much do we reflect our own collections as being artifacts of memory, constructed by our own wishes and images? How do we want to represent ourselves as institutions that communicate the history and culture of a significant minority in the context of an ever-changing fabric of Europe and a globalized world? And how can we represent our own struggle with memory and the conflicting claims that take posession of the material culture we preserve?