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Paul Klee’s “Angelus Novus,” which inspired Walter Benjamin, Laurie Anderson and Wim Wenders, will go on show to commemorate ...
Explore the rich history of Museum Island in Berlin, Germany, with this captivating drone footage. Fly over this UNESCO World ...
Mr. Frankenstein further contributed to the collective memory of his former city by donating to the Jewish Museum Berlin, which opened in 2001, a collection of more than 1,100 photographs ...
By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The 31st Jewish Film Festival Berlin Brandenburg (JFBB), Germany’s largest Jewish film festival, unveiled its line-up Thursday, spotlighting independent ...
Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over the Nazis in an intense fight for the German ...
A major retrospective opening this month at The Jewish Museum in New York, Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity, honours the artist’s lifelong activism. “Shahn’s denunciation of authoritarianism and ...
For years, Walter Frankenstein, a German Jew living in Berlin, watched as the city’s once thriving Jewish population disappeared. Tens of thousands of Jewish Berliners emigrated in the 1930s ...
“We all had a little case next to the bed, even the children,” recalled Eva-Maria Kolb, now 89, of the constant aerial bombing ... the director of the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, located in ...
If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. The Jewish Museum’s latest exhibition, The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt, explores the Jewish tale ...
JTA — A museum holding one of the most important photography collections of pre-Holocaust Jewish life wanted to scan thousands of images and make them accessible to the public online.