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The Schmooze Reunion With Father’s 300-Year-Old Violin
(JTA) — With all the recent news in Germany about the search for heirs to art taken during the Nazi era, a recent announcement about a 300-year-old violin caught my eye. A Nuremberg-based foundation for music students was hoping to find descendants of Felix Hildesheimer of Speyer — a musical instrument dealer who bought the…
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Opinion Hoarder Wants ‘Nazi’ Art Back — Looted or Not
Art historian Meike Hoffmann speaks to the media regarding the seizure in 2011 of 1,500 paintings from Cornelius Gurlitt in Germany. / Getty Images It looks like the German lawmakers will be too late. Cornelius Gurlitt’s spokesman, Stephan Holzinger, announced today that Gurlitt’s lawyers filed a complaint at an Augsburg court, arguing that tax authorities’…
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Breaking News Nazi ‘Looted Art’ Hoarder Cornelius Gurlitt Launches Web Site
Cornelius Gurlitt, whose stash of art in Munich was revealed to the world last fall, has launched a web site. In English and German, Gurlitt explains that he is both duty bound “to preserve and maintain his father’s collection” and “open to historic responsibility” in a post on the gurlitt.info site. At issue is whether…
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Opinion Germany Weighs Flawed Bill on Nazi-Looted Art
Art historian Meike Hoffmann speaks to the media regarding the seizure in 2011 of 1,500 paintings from Cornelius Gurlitt in Germany. / Getty Images Today the Bavarian Minister of Justice Dr. Winfried Bausback presented a bill to the Upper House of the German Parliament proposing retroactive abolition of the statute of limitation for claims on…
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Music Morocco Synagogue Gets Spruce Up
An historic synagogue in Essaouira, Morocco is to be refurbished in a joint project with the German Foreign Ministry. It will be the second synagogue to be restored under a special German government program. Tuesday’s announcement came as the Moroccan Ambassador in Berlin, Omar Zniber, launched an exhibit at the embassy’s cultural center of photographs…
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Breaking News Germany Expands Pensions for Jews Forced To Work in Nazi Ghettos
Germany’s Labour Ministry is to bring in new legislation extending the pension rights of thousands of Jews forced to work in Nazi-era ghettos, Spiegel magazine reported on Sunday. Spiegel said the ministry had presented the proposal to an Israeli delegation visiting Berlin last week, and it would be worth an average of 15,000 euros ($20,400)…
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Culture Being Jewish in Germany — Or Not
Stranger in My Own Country: A Jewish Family in Modern Germany By Yascha Mounk *Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 272 pages, $26 Marcel Reich-Ranicki, postwar Germany’s leading literary critic, who died last year at the age of 93, once described himself as “half Polish, half German and wholly Jewish.” Reich-Ranicki later denied that claim, insisting instead…
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Breaking News 5 Germans Honored for Preserving Jewish History
The rescuer of a ruined synagogue in Gudensberg is one of five German non-Jews honored this year for ensuring that local Jewish history is not forgotten. High school teacher Hans-Peter Klein helped to preserve a building and its story, and he also helped descendants of local Jews find their roots – as did all winners…
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