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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Culture Jewish music in Germany after the Holocaust
Read this article in Yiddish. Tina Frühauf Transcending Dystopia: Music, Mobility, and the Jewish Community in Germany, 1945-1989 Oxford University Press, 2021, 644 pp. Immediately after World War II, the German rabbi Leo Baeck, who had survived the war in the concentration camp Terezin, declared: “The history of German Jews has ended once and for…
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Culture 2 generations of Germans look to the past and future of the country’s Jews
Semon Shabaev and Anja Baron were born in two different Germanys. Baron, 55, grew up in a Berlin with no visible Jewish life; filling that absence was a profound sense of guilt. Shabaev, who turns 21 in April, is a member of a thriving Jewish community and part of a generation committed to thinking beyond…
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News Germany’s pandemic protests are mainstreaming antisemitic conspiracy theories
Read this article in Yiddish. In the last months, neo-Nazis have become more brazen, demonstrating openly in public, particularly at anti-coronavirus rallies – or Anti-Corona-Demos, as we call them in German. The rallies aren’t just anti-lockdown, they tackle everything which has to do with the virus, including denying that it exists. Most of these demonstrations…
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Yiddish World A new look at the Yiddish literature that flourished in Weimar Berlin
Read this article in Yiddish Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism Marc Caplan Indiana University Press, $40, 394 PP The brief but lively and productive Berlin period in the history of modern Yiddish culture is a special source of interest for contemporary researchers. Out of a melting pot of various languages, styles and…
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Fast Forward Report: Nazis who killed children ran German children’s homes after war
(JTA) — One was a former SS officer who helped murder 220 Lithuanian Jews. Another was a doctor who sent at least seven children to their deaths on Nazi orders. After World War II, both Werner Scheu and Albert Viethen were among a group of former Nazi officials who ran children’s homes in West Germany…
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Fast Forward Trump’s pick for German ambassador called Muslim refugees ‘invaders’
Retired U.S. Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor, a frequent guest on Fox News and other conservative talk shows, has a history of racist and xenophobic comments that has prompted Jewish groups to voice their concern about the possibility that he will become the United States’ ambassador to Germany. The White House announced MacGregors nomination last week,…
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Fast Forward Berlin rally against Coronavirus rules features neo-Nazis, anti-Semitic displays
BERLIN (JTA) – A rally supported by neo-Nazi groups drew more than 20,000 protesters in Berlin Saturday to demand an end to coronavirus restrictions. The rally was called a “Day of Freedom,” an apparent reference to a 1935 documentary about the Nazi army by Adolf Hitler’s pet filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl. Some attendees displayed anti-Semitic slogans,…
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News Why is anti-Semitism in Germany on the rise?
Read this article in Yiddish. A year ago, I was waiting inside a crowded German bus station with my classmate from Trier University. “Don’t talk to me in Hebrew here,” she said. “You never know who’ll recognize that it’s a Jewish language.” I myself am not Jewish, so I often ask her questions about Jewish…
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