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Jewish Life - Four Cities Full of Culture

February 19, 2021

1700 years of Jewish history. In this commemorative year, Germany looks back and explores new perspectives, but how do we cope at a time when anti-Semitism and right-wing populism are on the rise?

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Deutschland | Berlin | Jüdisches Leben
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Berlin: Back to the Diaspora

Berlin’s colorful, diverse, queer culture attracts many people of Jewish faith - especially from Israel. They often belong to the third generation of Shoah survivors. How do they deal with trauma? Two very different creative perspectives.

 

Halle am Tag nach dem Anschlag
Image: Reuters/F. Bensch

Halle: Learning from history

The synagogue in Halle was the site of an anti-Semitic terrorist attack in 2019. But apart from this act of violence, how is this city connected to Judaism? We go in search of clues with a musician who has devoted herself to Western Yiddish culture.

 

Deutschland Das lichtdurchflutete Atrium im Lichtbau des neuen Jüdischen Museums in Frankfurt
Image: Norbert Miguletz/Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt

Frankfurt: A Culture of Remembrance

Jewish families like the Franks and the Rothschilds have shaped cultural and economic life in Frankfurt, but the city has dwelled on the past for a long time. The Jewish Museum, which reopens in 2020, dares to look back to the future.

 

Symbolbild - Antisemitismus - Polizei vor Synagoge
Image: Getty Images/AFP/C. Stache

Munich: A Broken Identity

The Jewish communities in Germany grew enormously after the collapse of the Soviet Union, including cities like Munich. But how did they cope in a new country with a foreign language and culture to learn? Literature offers some insights.

 

Deutschland | Berlin | Jüdisches Leben
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Embracing diversity - Trying new things

A rabbi who defies clichés and a film that shakes things up. The new Jewish generation in Germany is quick-witted and self-confident. They’re putting an end to a culture of remembrance that fails to embrace the present.

 


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