Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Germanen

Visitors can see an album with photographs of places along the Western front in our cabinet exhibition “The First World War in Jewish Memory” for only another few days. The album is part of the bequest of a Berliner gynecologist Dr. Carl Hartog (1877-1931), having been given to the museum at the end of 2001 …
The city of Douai was taken by German soldiers as early

or “Being who I am” “The night before I fly to Germany to see my grandfather Mosha, I meet someone, take him home with me, and for the first time in my life, I sleep with a man.” This sentence begins the first chapter of the 2010 novel Sag es mir (Tell it to me) …
was clearly also written for “clueless” non-Jewish Germans

It’s not easy to find the way there. Good thing that the artist picked me up at the nearest subway station in Berlin’s Wedding district. Together we cross the courtyards of various businesses, pass a halal diner, climb a staircase, and suddenly we’re standing in front of the door of her atelier. Hardly has Anna …
At home, a wichtel (in the original German) is an important

An Appeal for Recognition and Dignity “We used to throw stones at her – we thought she was a witch.” With these words, a former resident of Rishon LeZion ruefully told me of her childhood encounters with the sculptor and doll maker, Edith Samuel. Edith wore her long, dark, European skirts under the searing Middle …
The daughter of a liberal German rabbi, Edith and her

the topic of conferences, lectures and exhibits in German-speaking

with Halloween, our twins’ birthday and the classic German

Berlin’s guest on 14 October 2015, part of the “New German

Several of us at the Jewish Museum Berlin have observed that, over the last few years, the market for young adult literature has begun to demonstrate a growing interest in the subject of Nazism and the Holocaust. In the coming weeks, we will be introducing contemporary and classic works on this topic that we have …
eight children in the Polish city of Belchatow, the German

On Behind-the-scenes Labor in the Cultural Economy Today is Giornata mondiale della traduzione, Międzynarodowy Dzień Tłumacza, Journée mondiale de la traduction, Uluslararası Çeviri Günü or Día Internacional de la Traducción—which is to say, International Translation Day, an occasion established in 1991 by the Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs (FIT: International Federation of Translators) in order to …
(See, for example, the Gaggalagu quotes in German and

It was always referred to in German with a shudder: