Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, a pogrom in Nazi Germany carried out Nov. 9-10, 1938.
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Culture John Zorn Talks Music, Mysticism and the Messiah as He Turns 60
John Zorn’s East Village apartment is like his music: an exceptionally-concentrated, perfectl- composed space celebrating the artistic experience. Thousands of records and tapes and CDs and books, well-ordered, each tug at the visitor’s elbow for attention. For many years, John Zorn — composer, performer, arranger, independent music distributor — has been a major voice in…
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Culture Broken Glass And Insufficient Metaphors
November 9–10, 1938, lives tragically in historical memory for the coordinated attacks against Jews in Germany and Austria by paramilitary forces and locals. A new book, “The Night of Broken Glass: Eyewitness Accounts of Kristallnacht,” argues that to sum up events in which some 400 Jews were murdered “or driven to suicide,” and 30,000 were…
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Breaking News Neo-Nazis Behind Attack on ‘Stumbling Blocks’ Site
Neo-Nazis are behind the destruction of 11 “stumbling block” Holocaust memorials, say police in the German city of Greifswald. The vandalism in the eastern Germany city was discovered Nov. 9, the 74th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom against Jews. According to the Die Welt newspaper, the brass plaques, which bear the names of murdered Jews…
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Breaking News ‘Stumbling’ Memorial Hit on Kristallnacht Date
Police in the city of Greifswald in former East Germany believe neo-Nazis are behind the destruction of 11 “stumbling block” Holocaust memorials. The vandalism was discovered on Nov. 9, the 74th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom against Jews. According to Die Welt newspaper, the brass plaques, which bear the names of murdered Jews and are…
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Breaking News Polish Mall Uses Kristallnacht as Slogan
A Polish mall used the term ‘Crystal Night’ as an advertising slogan. “Rob the collection. Crystal Night of shopping,” was the new advertising slogan of Manufaktura Mall in Lodz, which appeared this week on billboards throughout the city. After the intervention of city residents, the company has decided to change the billboards. Crystal Night, or…
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Opinion The Value of Brokenness
“It did not take long before the first heavy grey stones came tumbling down, and the children of the village amused themselves as they flung stones into the many coloured windows. When the first rays of a cold and pale November sun penetrated the heavy dark clouds, the little synagogue was but a heap of…
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The Schmooze Hiking Little Hitler
A little crag near Stockholm is causing a minor uproar in the Jewish world, thanks to the inconveniently named Cordelia Hess, a historian who, on a recent hike, took issue with several Nazi-inspired trail names. “I thought it rather unpleasant to climb through the ‘Crematorium’ or say that ‘now I am going to do Kristallnacht,’”…
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Life ‘Jews 1, Nazis 0’
That’s the score, according to anti-fascist demonstrators who blocked a neo-Nazi march through Prague’s Jewish quarter on the anniversary of Kristallnacht. The JTA has a nice story on the demonstrations.
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