The Ongoing Metamorphosis of German Jewry
The Russians are here to stay
Don’t forget: you’re playing people who keep telling each other: ‘Everything will turn out well!'”, Masha says in Russian. “That’s what people usually say when things get iffy.” [...]
Georg Stefan Troller – A Mentsch
He studies his interlocutor intensively with warm, alert brown eyes. He speaks with a deep, clear voice in a charming Viennese accent. Georg Stefan Troller is 90 years old. He is a witness to history, an author, a journalist, a fi lmmaker, and a humanitarian. He is of [...]
Pure Optimism – What Else?
Today’s German Jewish community represents and lives all the best traditions of our Jewishness: responsibility to preserve our cherished Jewish heritage, having the imagination to be open and modern to new challenges and the determination to jointly build a completely [...]
Large Loans Jeopardize Euro
Don’t blame alone the Germans for the euro’s woes
Since December 2012, the European Central Bank (ECB) has provided over one trillion euros, or 1.3 trillion US dollars, in liquidity to European banks. This money has mostly been used to purchase [...]
My First Jew
On November 9th, 1978, the 40th anniversary of the national pogrom often called ‘Kristallnacht,’ I demonstrated with a handful of trade unionists and school pupils at the Jewish cemetery in Goslar. Jews had called Goslar home since the early Middle Ages, although [...]