Michael Levitin
By Michael Levitin
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Culture A Century of Israeli Art, on View in Berlin
Pogroms in Russia before and during the First World War sent waves of Jewish emigrants fleeing to Palestine. Around the same time, Jewish painters from across Europe settled in Tel Aviv, where an arts scene flourished in the 1920s, planting the seeds of Jewish national identity. It is this compelling chapter that opens “The New…
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News Place for Mourning Fails To Stir Descendants of Hitler’s Victims
When it comes to remembering, Jews like to think they do it best. That’s why, as the German capital unveils the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe 60 years after the end of World War II, reactions from Jews in Berlin are ranging from the emotional to the apathetic and removed. “It was an…
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Culture Berlin Bind: Between Neo-Nazis and Mendelssohn
Last month, one day after 1,000 skinheads marched here to celebrate the first-ever “National Nazi Day,” a different cast of Germans huddled into the country’s largest synagogue and listened raptly to cellist Steven Isserlis, whose performance opened the 18th Berlin Jewish Culture Festival. The events couldn’t have coincided more strangely, reflecting today’s wide split in…
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