On Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, 1938; mobs spurred on by the Nazis attacked Jewish synagogues across Germany.
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A Muslim guest sits next to a Jewish one during an ordination ceremony at the Rykestrasse Synagogue in Berlin in September 2024. Omer Messinger/Getty Images The consequences of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, ...
The cozy relationship between Trump administration officials, the MAGA movement and AfD offers discomfiting echoes of events ...
A new exhibition at London's Wiener Holocaust Library spotlights the unique challenges faced by European Jews who were over ...
As a German major, I've often been asked how I, as a Jew, can immerse myself in the language, history and culture of a people who, 70 years ago, produced a movement that tried to eliminate my people ...
When Kurt Georg Kiesinger was first proposed as German Chancellor, much of the world’s press expressed shock that a man with a Nazi past could be considered for the post. Kiesinger answered the ...
The installation in Munich is an ill-conceived attempt to honor the Jewish humor of millions of Yiddish speakers murdered by ...
Prominent in Berlin’s American Chamber of Commerce are Jews. Last week they were unhappy. From all over the world irate Jews sent cables denouncing them for failing to denounce the Nazi Governor of ...
The end of the eighteenth century, however, marked the birth of modern athletics and the beginning of a flourishing ...
The consequences of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack and Israel’s war in Gaza have reverberated far beyond the zones of conflict. In the United States, for example, a growing number of people, including ...