German Jews

Rolf Eden, Germany’s leading playboy who fought in Israel’s War of Independence, dies at 92

He is often credited with opening Germany’s first discotheque and left an outsized legacy on the country’s sex culture.

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 17, 2022 10:08 am

Lin-Manuel Miranda and my German-Jewish grandma both made ‘the Heights’ what it is

A new movie musical celebrates the Manhattan neighborhood that waves of immigrants have called home.

June 7, 2021 3:35 pm

In Germany, COVID-19 postpones the revival of the Jewish Carnival tradition that the Nazis tried to end

Cologne’s most festive event was set to receive its first official Jewish float in over 80 years, until the pandemic put the whole event on ice until at least 2021.

March 10, 2021 4:39 pm

In Germany, the rise of anti-Semitism and other extremism has Jews questioning their future

By Cnaan Liphshiz January 8, 2021 1:46 pm

The global proportion of Jews living in Europe is as low as it was 1,000 years ago. And the future there doesn’t look bright.

By Cnaan Liphshiz October 21, 2020 6:59 pm

Jews dance with Torah on German street that had been named for Hitler

By Sam Sokol December 17, 2019 3:27 pm

Brexit is pushing Jews to seek passports from countries that persecuted their ancestors

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 15, 2019 2:57 pm

Soviet immigration, once a bane of Germany’s Jews, has become their salvation

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 10, 2018 1:17 pm

British Jews apply for German citizenship in dramatic numbers

October 19, 2018 8:43 am

The music of Holocaust victims returns to the Dutch concentration camp where they suffered

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 2, 2018 12:19 pm

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