Jüdische Allgemeine has brought an article by Gideon Lewis-Kraus to my attention in which Lewis-Kraus questions the authenticity of German Jewish life in Berlin. Lewis-Kraus points out that Jewish...
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If only Muffti lived in NYC…
Do they also cater to philosophers? 🙂 Jewish doctors, lawyers and business executives too busy for the formal study of their faith can now order in religious lessons, thanks to an organization whose...
Let’s Play!
This one’s for all the Yiddishists, linguists, procrastinators, and plainly bored people out there. This wordmaze contains 30 words that have entered English through Yiddish. They can be...
Oy, the guilt…
Another gem from the highly beloved Overheard site: Four-year-old boy to stranger: Do you have a little boy? 30-ish single man: No, not yet. Four-year-old boy: Why not? 30-ish single man: Because I...
Stupid, ignorant, or downright tasteless?
Despite being urged to by the German Jewish Council as well as former Bavarian ‘Ministerpräsident’ (comparable to US American ‘governor’) Edmund Stoiber, the city of Munich...
Remember
CompactMemory provides a handy research tool for anybody interested in periodical Jewish publications in pre-Nazi Germany. 118 periodicals have been digitalized to simplify access for researchers and...