This is the Forward’s coverage of the modern nation of Germany, the successor state to Nazi Germany, which perpetrated the Holocaust during World War II.
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Yiddish World A podcast about disappearance – and Yiddish life
Born in a Yiddish cultural space, “I Think I Saw You” asks intimate questions about visibility, loss and freedom
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Books He could have avoided persecution in Nazi Germany — he got bar mitzvahed instead
'Half-Jew — Full Life’ tells the story of Gerd “Pips” Phillipsohn's life before and after Hitler came to power.
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Yiddish World ‘Faust’ author Goethe’s fascination with Yiddish
As a boy, Goethe visited Jewish schools in Frankfurt, and even attended a circumcision and a Jewish wedding
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Opinion As Trump officials cozy up to Germany’s far right, everything alt is neu again
As AfD continues to court Trump and his MAGA movement, how worried should American Jews be?
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Fast Forward German auction house calls off ‘shameless’ sale of concentration camp artifacts
Survivors objected to the sale of victims’ belongings and a yellow Star of David with “signs of wear"
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Yiddish World A Yiddish circus in a suitcase
German audiences are enthusiastic about the show “Tshemodan,” where circus artists perform to a live klezmer band
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Yiddish World A German museum aimed to honor Jewish wit. The result is downright demeaning.
The Haus der Kunst in Munich now has Yiddish insults mounted on its cornice
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Culture How Germany’s Holocaust remembrance culture kicked off a democratic crisis
Germany has made remembering the Holocaust central, but that commitment has been strained by Oct. 7 and the rise of the far-right. What happens if Germany loses its memory?
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Fast Forward US soldier who protected Jews in POW camp during WWII to be awarded Medal of Honor
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