The first episode in our blog series: “Memories from the Life of Walter Frankenstein” When I look at the picture of the infant in his baby carriage, it’s difficult for me to believe that it’s the same person who sat across from me just a few weeks ago in Stockholm at the age of nearly …
wanted to instill his nephew with his patriotic, German
In Germany, you cannot rely on the weather being consistently sunny, even in the summertime. In the fall at the latest – dare we think of it already? – we will need to shake open our umbrellas again. Axel Stähler (comparative literature, University of Kent), has shown that the umbrella was once considered a Jewish …
and Black Masks in Early Zionist Discourse,” in: German
Food for Thought from Our Recent Conference on “Migration and Integration Policy Today” In the year 2000, the UN named 18 December International Migrants’ Day. Today, thirteen years later, Germany is well-established as a prime target country for migrants. Its population is plural, multi-religious, and multi-ethnic. Migration and integration therefore provide both politicians and academics considerable scope …
new “Migration and Diversity” program, and by the German
On our “Open Day at the Academy,” this Sunday, 27 October 2013, we will celebrate the namesakes of the new public square in front of the Academy on Lindenstrasse: Fromet Mendelssohn, née Gugenheim, and her husband Moses Mendelssohn are now immortalized on Berlin’s cityscape, following much debate and deliberation. Reason enough to find out more …
They were written in Judeo-German, in Hebrew characters
History cannot be captured in a single form. Not in brass, not in metal. That is what Hadas Tapouchi says. The Berlin-based Israeli artist believes that monuments and inscriptions miss the actual sense of commemoration. This type of remembrance would be an inevitable path towards forgetting. Undoubtedly, Hadas works against forgetting. Upon our first meeting …
The intense pull between young Germans and Israelis
Weihnukka – Geschichten von Weihnachten und Chanukka. Eine Ausstellung des Jüdischen Museum Berlin.
wurde der christliche Gehalt des Festes durch die germanische
The first entry in the series “Memories from the Life of Walter Frankenstein” I first had the pleasure of meeting Walter and Leonie Frankenstein in Stockholm in 2008. Back then, our meeting and the couple’s heartfelt partnership left a lasting impression on me. After 66 years of marriage, the Frankensteins still radiated love and a …
Walter was born in 1924 and grew up in Złotów (German
A Guest Entry by Rudij Bergmann Accompanying our current exhibition, “No Compromises! The Art of Boris Lurie,” Rudij Bergmann’s film about the artist will premiere on 21 March 2016 (additional information available on our event calendar). In this guest entry, the filmmaker tells us how this very personal documentary came about. The artist’s longing for …
(The film, in German and with age restriction, is available
— the Hanukkah Message? I have been using the same Hanukkah lamp for nearly 20 years. I find it aesthetically-challenging and totally impractical: it is difficult to clean and the candles fall out. Yet I persist in using it because it provokes me to think. When I put the illuminated, figurative lamp on the windowsill …
Hanukkah holiday and is an evolutionary form of an old German
A Newly Acquired Passover Haggadah and Its Previous Owners in Kreuzberg Next week, the first Passover Seder will be celebrated on the evening of April 14. All over the world Jews will gather with their family and friends around festively decked tables and partake in the centuries-old tradition of reciting the Haggadah. Its text describes …
the Haggadah text, along with its translation into German
