22
Feb
In 2021, the Pandemic Has Spawned Anti-Semitism Around the Globe
As the world came to grips with the seriousness of the pandemic last spring, conspiracies arose linking COVID-19 and anti-Semitism.
13
Nov
Illustrated Book Review | Belonging by Nora Krug
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By
Amy kurzweil
Belonging:
A German Reckons with History and Home
Nora Krug
Scribner
2018, 288 pp., $30
All drawings by and photos courtesy of Amy Kurzweil, inspired by Nora Krug
16
Oct
Anti-Semitism Watch | Germany’s Far-Right Is Changing the Political Landscape
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By
Liam Hoare
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...
10
May
Unravelling the Words of an Unlikely Villain
In seeking purity, do we risk missing the bigger picture?
08
Jan
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...
24
Dec
How Germany’s ‘Rent a Jew’ Fights Stereotypes
“We try not to debunk the stereotypes from the Jewish side, but instead show the participants how stereotypes work in general.”
09
Jun
Uncovering the Silence: A Jewish-German Healing Exchange
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By
Rachel Gross
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 only a sister and two cousins.
15
Dec
A Cemetery Story
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By
Sala Levin
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...
28
Jul
Should Jews Play Richard Wagner?
Richard Wagner, the lauded 19th-century German composer of operas such as Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal, had an anti-Semitic streak.
It was more than just a...
10
Mar
Lessons for Germany’s Turks from France’s Jews
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By
symirr
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...
10
Mar
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...
18
Feb
Keeping Up With the Times: Digitizing Holocaust Archives
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By
navid
By Amanda Walgrove
The rapid growth of technology, characteristic of the twenty-first century, has altered methods of human relation. Communicating through Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and email...