Studying Hate in Berlin
Tom Tugend
June 14, 2001
The globalization of trade and communications may soon be joined by a new globalization of anti-Semitism, according to a German scholar who knows the subject well.
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A ‘New Germany’
Debra Isaacs
April 19, 2001
Jewish leaders in the United States and in Israel are encouraging an openness to what they describe as a \”new Germany,\” a place they say is truly atoning for its past. At the very least, they argue, it deserves the support of the American Jewish community because of its strong support of Israel and its embrace of Jewish immigrants who are streaming in at the rate of 10,000 per year.
From Darkness to Light
Rabbi Mark S. Diamond
April 19, 2001
There are unwelcome reminders that xenophobia is alive and well in Germany.
An Enabler of Genocide
Michael Berenbaum
March 8, 2001
Edwin Black\’s new book, \”IBM and the Holocaust\” (Crown) has generated significant interest. Full-page advertisements in the New York Times and other prestigious newspapers and interviews on the \”Today Show\” and other prominent television programs have all been part of its marketing program. Despite its many substantial problems, the work is important.
Berlin Bound
Tom Tugend
December 14, 2000
More than 300,000 visitors have thronged the Jewish Museum in Berlin since it opened to the public in February 1999, and more are coming at a clip of 20,000 each month.
Sounds of Healing
Ellen Jaffe-Gill
October 26, 2000
Half of Tina Feiger\’s family fled from there in 1938. Barbara Ravitz became so anxious on a visit there in 1969 that she hasn\’t been back since. Sherri Lipman, like so many American Jews, has never been there.
On Nov. 25, they will be in Germany, part of a huge, largely Jewish choral ensemble singing music based on a Jewish text, written by of one of the world\’s most renowned Jewish composers. They will be not just in Germany, but in Nuremberg, where the Nazi regime generated its restrictive anti-Semitic laws. Not just in Nuremberg, but in a concert hall built over the rubble of the arena where thousands of Germans gathered in the 1930s to affirm Adolf Hitler\’s hate-filled rants.
Celebrating Jewish History in Alsace
Evelyn Kaye
October 5, 2000
Alsace, a picture-perfect rural region of rich vineyards, farmlands, soft green mountains and rolling valleys, sits on France\’s northeast border, next to Germany. Around every bend along the narrow roads are charming villages with winding cobbled streets and neatly painted black and white timbered houses. In summer, pink and purple and scarlet geraniums blossom in gardens and window boxes. Though the region is only 20 miles wide and 100 miles long, its largest city, Strasbourg, has a population of more than 388,000, with a magnificent cathedral, and is home to the prestigious Council of Europe.
Breaking the Fast
Judy Zeidler
October 5, 2000
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, begins at sundown on Sunday, Oct. 8, during which time a strict fast is observed.
Survivors of Forced Labor Deserve Tax-Free Reparations
Antonio R
September 21, 2000
The horrific racial persecution of the Holocaust is all too familiar to us. That dark period in history was marked by the brutal deaths of millions of innocent people and also involved the virtual enslavement of more than 10 million foreign laborers in Germany.
My German Question
David N. Myers
August 24, 2000
Until last year, I held firm to that tribalist impulse familiar to many American Jews and refused to visit Germany (or fly Lufthansa or buy German products, etc.). Although no members of my immediate family had fallen victim to the Nazi terror, the resistance to things German was passed on from my parents\’ generation, which shared in the belated outrage (and desire to expunge feelings of inadequacy) of postwar American Jewry.
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