Tag: German Jews
Archive smuggled from Nazi-era Germany acquired by Science History Institute
The Science History Institute has acquired an amazing collection of correspondence, books, photographs and scientific notes belonging to Jewish German chemist Georg Bredig, announced the Philadelphia museum on Tuesday.
The collection spans decades, from the...
Angela Merkel’s legacy and the Jews
Angela Merkel’s tenure as Chancellor of Germany is drawing to a close.
While she has always shown great empathy for Germany’s Jews, her 2015 decision to open the country’s gates to migrants led to the...
The connection between WWI armistice and WWII Kristallnacht
Two grimly sobering anniversaries fall in November. On the 9th and 10th, we will mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht—the orgy of murder and violence that devastated Jewish communities across Nazi Germany in 1938....
Arab assailants in Berlin attack German Jewish teen listening to Israeli music
Arab assailants attacked a German Jewish teenager who was listening to Israeli music on his mobile phone on Saturday at the Zoologischer Garten train station in western Berlin.
The attackers cursed the teen, identified only...
German Jews stop wearing Kippot amid Muslim attacks
Members of the small Jewish community in the West German city of Bochum will no longer wear Kippot because of attacks on them by Muslim youths, they announced in November.
"Germans more than any other...
German Jews cut ties with local Turkish group due to Antisemitism
The Jewish community in the city of Mannheim broke off talks and exchanges with the Turkish Ditib religious association because its headquarters in Ankara spreads antisemitism, the Mannheimer Morgen newspaper reported Thursday.
Majid Khoshlessan, the...
Anti-immigrant AfD alarms German Jews as election looms
Salomea Genin, an 85-year-old Jewish Berliner who fled the Nazis as a child, says she would flee Germany a second time if the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) ever took power.
Genin, who holds dual...