Babylon Berlin is famous for its attention to detail — did it get its Jewish story right?
The popular German series has religious Jews, but does it know how they practiced?
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Theater ‘It’s 60-year-old boy meets 60-year-old-girl’: Steven Skybell on his Tony-nominated turn in ‘Cabaret’
The Broadway actor discusses his Jewish identity and why 'Cabaret' is still relevant
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Theater In Germany, they were superstars — and then the Nazis came to power
'Harmony,' Barry Manilow's musical about the Comedian Harmonists, is a sometimes-labored labor of love
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Culture It was a pioneering trans library — until the Nazis burned it
In Weimar Germany, the gay Jewish doctor Magnus Hirschfeld performed the first gender-affirming surgeries and collected research on sexuality. The 1933 book burnings destroyed his life's work
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Opinion Historians are learning more about how the Nazis targeted trans people
Only in the past few years have the stories and experiences of trans people in Nazi Germany come to light
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Theater He was Germany’s most popular playwright — here’s why you may not have heard of him
Jewish writer Ernst Toller lived the radical ideals he expressed in his plays
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Art Monsters, Monsters And More Monsters In a Thrilling Graphic Tale
Last night, trying, excitedly, to summarize “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters,” Emil Ferris’s debut graphic novel — or at least Part 1 of it — for my husband, I hit upon an obstacle: The book, which takes the form of a spiral-bound, three-hole-punch sketchbook/detective case study, kept by 10-year-old Chicagoan Karen Reyes, is kind of,…
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The Schmooze The Many Sides of Walther Rathenau
Walther Rathenau: Weimar’s Fallen Statesman By Shulamit Volkov Yale University Press, 256 pages, $25.00 The German Jewish community of the late 19th century found itself in a curious situation. On the one hand, German unification in 1871 weakened opposition to Jewish emancipation, and Jews demonstrated their willingness to integrate into German society and culture. At…
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