Tag: Judaism
Among spectators: About the dispute between Max Czollek and Maxim Biller – culture
I originally had an extremely funny beginning for this article: At the beginning of the first sentence “for the sake of sincerity” I declare that I am not Jewish, but…
Franz Marc’s “Foxes” in Düsseldorf: return of looted paintings stalls – culture
Ronald S. Lauder, the chairman of the World Jewish Congress, turned to the mayor of the city of Düsseldorf, Stephan Keller, in the dispute over the restitution of the painting…
Munich: How Jews celebrate Yom Kippur – Munich
The time of repentance is coming to an end. It lasted ten days, since the beginning of the two-day New Year festival Rosh Hashanah, the believers have had time to…
Realignment of the Heidelberg Central Archives of the History of Jews in Germany – SWR Aktuell
The new central archive for researching the history of Jews in Germany in Heidelberg has been inaugurated with a ceremony. The archive was originally founded in 1987. The President of…
Central archive for researching the history of German Jews – culture
Past, present and future are very close together in this old tobacco factory in Heidelberg. While Southwest Germany’s only software giant has set up its “AppHaus” on the upper floors…
Interview with photographer Frédéric Brenner: This in-between – culture
For 40 years, Frédéric Brenner has been photographing Jewish life all over the world, in Israel of course, but also in India, China, Yemen and the former Soviet Union. His…
Limes and Jewish sites become world heritage sites – culture
The world of Judaism once turned along the hundred kilometer long Rhine axis between Mainz and Speyer. A famous quote describes the importance of the so-called ShUM cities, the third…
Munich: Memorial concert for Hermann Levi – Munich
According to an Egyptian proverb, a person lives when his name is mentioned. That name wipe out that damnatio memoriae, is an act of destructive forgetting that is known not…
Portugal vacation: nature and world heritage in the Centro – travel
The Centro de Portugal is hardly known by holidaymakers. The region has a lot to offer: the Douro River, vineyards and world heritage. And hardly anywhere else in Portugal are…