Illustrated Book Review | Belonging by Nora Krug
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home Nora Krug Scribner 2018, 288 pp., $30 [divider] [divider] All drawings by and photos courtesy of Amy Kurzweil, inspired by Nora Krug...
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Anti-Semitism Watch | Germany’s Far-Right Is Changing the Political Landscape
In August, far-right mobs in the eastern German town of Chemnitz hunted foreigners through the streets. In the chaos, a kosher restaurant was attacked and its owner injured. With right-wing political extremism on the rise, where will it end? [divider] On August 27 at around 10 p.m.,...
Unravelling the Words of an Unlikely Villain
In seeking purity, do we risk missing the bigger picture?...
The Consequence of Conscience
In July 2015, as thousands of Syrians and others fleeing ISIS and civil war thronged into train stations in Germany, German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Rostock, a dingy port city that has seen its share of anti-immigrant violence. There she participated in a routine panel...
How Germany’s ‘Rent a Jew’ Fights Stereotypes
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"We try not to debunk the stereotypes from the Jewish side, but instead show the participants how stereotypes work in general."...
Uncovering the Silence: A Jewish-German Healing Exchange
My parents were Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivors who fled World War II and ended up in Mexico, where my sister and I were born. They lost most of their families. My mother had only a brother, an uncle and a cousin who survived, while my father...
A Cemetery Story
[caption id="attachment_5532" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Berlin's Weissensee Cemetery (courtesy of Seventh Art Releasing)"][/caption] A documentary about a cemetery: It may not sound like much of a crowd-pleaser, but the German film In Heaven, Underground, directed by Britta Wauer and tracking the 131-year history of Europe's second-largest Jewish...
Should Jews Play Wagner?
by Theodore Samets Richard Wagner, the lauded 19th-century German composer of operas such asTristan und Isolde and Parsifal, had an anti-Semitic streak. It was more than just a streak. He discussed Jews throughout his writings, most notably in an essay, “Judaism in Music,” which derided Felix Mendelssohn...
Lessons for Germany's Turks from France's Jews
By Symi Rom-Rymer In the midst of cheering crowds and booming music at an auditorium in Düsseldorf, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Turkish audience of 10,000 to "integrate…into German society but don't assimilate. No one has the right to deprive us of...
Lessons for Germany’s Turks from France’s Jews
By Symi Rom-Rymer In the midst of cheering crowds and booming music at an auditorium in Düsseldorf, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Turkish audience of 10,000 to "integrate…into German society but don't assimilate. No one has the right to deprive us of...
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