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Closed Borders
The systematic persecution and expulsion of the Jewish population in the German Empire began almost immediately after the National Socialists seized power in 1933. By 1937, the Nazi regime had legally discriminated, financially plundered and socially...
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Die Kunsthalle Göppingen plant in Kooperation mit dem Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv–Yafo eine Ausstellung der Bildenden Künstlerin Maya Schweizer: Ausgangspunkt ihrer künstlerischen Arbeit ist das hebräische Wort „aksháv“ (עכשיו...
Where to Now?
“Where to now?” was a question hundreds of thousands of Jews asked themselves after being liberated in 1945. The Munich Kammerspiele revisits this question in an artistic programme that examines the years following the Holocaust from a Jewish...
Through the Silence
In this theatre production, artists from Germany and Israel examine the history of the displaced persons camp, formerly located near the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Jews in Europe 1945-1950
Most Jews, who survived the Holocaust, remained hidden or spent the war years in exile, tried to rebuild their lives in their native countries at the end of World War II. However, many ended up as “displaced persons” in camps in Germany. Those who...
Cohn Bucky Levy – The Loss
In 1890, three Jewish sisters arrived in the Thuringian town of Altenburg where they soon opened up their own shop. Several years later, “M. & S. Cohn” had become the largest department store in the region. Marianne Cohn headed the company together...
The Weimar Republic of Yiddishland
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the constitutive National Assembly in Weimar in 1919, this festival examined the enormous surge of creativity driven by Yiddish culture during the years of the Weimar Republic. “Yiddishland” was the...
Flucht und Verwandlung - Nelly Sachs, Schriftstellerin Berlin/Stockholm
Im Mai 1940 floh Nelly Sachs (Berlin 1891-1970 Stockholm) mit einem der letzten Flüge aus Berlin nach Stockholm. Vor ihr lagen dreißig Jahre Exil, die sie zeitweise in psychiatrischen Kliniken verbrachte, aber auch die späte Anerkennung als...
Marking 80 Years of Women in the Rabbinate
The year 2015 marked the 80th anniversary of the ordination of Regina Jonas (1902, Berlin – 1944, Auschwitz). Her rabbinate diploma represented a milestone in the struggle for equal treatment of Jewish women in this religious office, a process which...
Music as a Meeting Place
The Jakobsplatz Orchestra was founded around the same time the new Munich synagogue was built by the young members of the Israelite Religious Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria. The orchestra is comprised of young musicians from 15 countries, half...
