down the line downloading. what people have to say matters to us. that's why we listen to the stories reporter every weekend on d w. slums and get the clichés are starting to get on my nerves. model to discuss i think it's wonderful little this jewishness whether you're a strict author dos so dainty even know when russia china is all of it's here in germany. and. i decided to stay with this complexity i will now and then. in my medicine groucho's shop actually.

1700 years of documented jewish history in germany in this commemorative year we look to the past present and future. a visit to 4 different cities in search of 4 different perspectives on jewish identity. mammon touch cars cars. being executed company mines would be. calm if. you are god awful. judaism is a multi-faceted religion in her installation miss sube in the gathering filmmaker yes. you know where you've seen me betray

a vivid and diverse picture of german jews very often people have a very. strange image of jews here in germany sometimes some people think they're all very smart or all very rich or all very or. like in any other society there is a big range. of people and it was important for me here in the intervention to show . this variety. was born and raised new television the holocaust was part of the family's history grandmother's family was almost completely wiped out where you've seen he has lived in berlin for 15 years she's among the 20 to 30000 israelis who have moved to the german capital. in their there is something very fascinating about berlin because on one hand it's very hip and. contemporary and on the other hand it's very haunted and you can you

know there are really ghosts everywhere where you moved to germany her parents were horrified for them it was unthinkable to move to the land of the perpetrators but for her it was liberating. somehow being in berlin opened up something for me and suddenly i realized that this is you know this trauma i can deal much better i'm able to deal with it and there was something very liberating about allowing myself to change the perspective to meet the people who weren't allowed to me to hear stories. i wasn't supposed to hear and kind of ask myself how much can i enlarge or broaden my my perspective. partly she dealt with that trauma by exploring the previously unknown and taboo subject of her family's history. in her 1st film she follows the trail of a great uncle who story dead. great uncle never returned up to being

deployed it's a book about concentration camp through her research yale discovered that her uncle had actually started a new life on enemy land in east germany with a german woman and a german name. that's my. muslim d.v.d. . it became much easier for me to think about these things when i realize it's not my job to forgive. to the pos put to rest the director's focus has now turned to her birthplace of israel in her latest film you know ray you need to train her own generation of israelis. i'm finally ready to to do with this or with zionism which is in a way in my biography much more complex for many young israelis living in

berlin means creating a free and more experimental space for themselves to explore jewish identity. then you may know why she likes to break with conventions he's dressed his model in a hasidic hot and a talent pressure old he challenges to booze in his photography his way of dealing with his background as an ultra orthodox jew. a sure there's a lot of turkey shoot in there for me. in a way to kind of are more nice in my life so i kind of. hide. myself inside of there. in a way they are all sorry for trades. he photographs friends and family members creating provocative images in which queerness meets religion.

and then truth worked. binyamin why should grew up in an ultra-orthodox suburb of tel aviv in a deeply religious household with 10 siblings but he wanted to become an artist and break free from this insular world. aren't. safe for me and i think the comment was for me. a way to frame my life again. in a way that i can now have a kind of woods i have my roots with all the docs work that i was born to i didn't get into becoming in my daily life today ringback. he also uses religion to

explore his homosexuality playing with gay hysterics in some photos the tefilin prayer belt becomes a bondage belt in berlin the past has caught up with binyamin because he he live side by side with the 3rd generation of perpetrators and increasingly also the descendants of the victims with german and jewish friends he performs a kind of artistic exorcism of evil nazi symbolism. ok we're going to see him border was. when it came to germany. so to see the cd of evil. i found peace. but he also feels that anti-semitism is on the rise here. some of his friends witnessed the attack on the synagogue in that took place on the jewish holiday of young kapoor in october 29th tain the perpetrator didn't manage

to break through the synagogue door but he did kill 2 passes by. took a series of portraits of the survivors which he called hala. after. that they didn't have to deal with fear to be very trust. in germany. and that's of course it's natural for. the synagogue and hala in february 2021 in its courtyard is the door that saved the lives of so many on yom kapoor in 2019. today it's a memorial the names of the 2 people killed in the far right anti-semitic attack bear silent witness. whose diana lives and hala and has jewish roots at

the time of the attack she was an oxford researching yiddish music she was deeply shaken by the shooting as. i was always one of those who said it's really important that the jewish community be welcoming. and this transparent is possible . to had but time disabuse me of that nation's business. for many years the city of paid little heed to its jewish history which dates back close to a millennium in communist east germany it was a taboo topic. which is why diana believes it's more important than ever to remember this heritage. in the wall of this protestant community center she's discovered a jewish gravestone from the middle ages. the jewish mediæval cemetery is already dissolved in the 16th century. very possible

but the stunning was found somewhere in the rubble. construction and then incorporated. we can see that there's a name engraved here at risk. and behind it stands back and that's when she was growing up where to tread all the jewish classics on her parents' bookshelves she studied western the dialect originally spoken by jews in western europe and delved into their songs developing a passion for this music which had a lot of unforseen neared it's always fascinated me that these weren't just the texts and the music of the synagogue of the hebrew liturgy but that these were the songs that everybody knew and that everybody sang at.

these last cultural gems were widely popular in their time and are now being rediscovered. through her music and research diana matured has become an expert on judaism in holland she regularly gives guided tours such as this one of the historical jewish cemetery it's a witness to halas jewish history that's it just this is the oldest gravestone in the cemetery as you can see him all say the number one engraved very large so that dates it to the end of the 17th century is the time when the jews were allowed back into holland and resettled here so good lesson warden and see here to unseeded. this is not so much a sign of tolerance but more of the need for people especially those with deep pockets to rebuild the region in the wake of war and pestilence. jewish history and a long and turbulent history that culminated in the holocaust the memorial to the

destruction of jewish culture under the nazis was only erected in the late 1980 s. in communist east germany's final decade. diana mattoo welcomes the fact that hollis jewish community despite the renewed attack in 2019 has become more open and that jewish life here no longer belongs only to the past. preserving the pasta and keeping its memory alive this sensual tasco of every jewish museum. frankfurt is home to germany's oldest one last fall it reopened after a 5 year reconstruction phase. an extension has been added the new building serves as the entrance for visitors. while the new permanent exhibition is housed in rothschild pelé once home to the

famous jewish banking family whose economic and social significance is visually documented here. director miriam benson was convinced today a jewish museum must take a much broader view of the notion of remembrance the old museum concepts are no longer timely. they were reminders of german jewish life before the shoah you know and these symbols of remembrance led to museums being kinds of memorials and they presented jews more as dead people and jewish culture as a relic of the past and gone and. the greetings from frankfurt's jewish residents right at the start of the exhibition send a clear message jewish culture is alive and well here and it's diverse. well known faces and personalities tell us about it. your sister.

is the treasurer. for sure or didn't. i think this exhibition lives from that lives from the question who does history belong to. where of the opinion history belongs to those who lived through it and those who tell it and here we provide them with a space in which to tell it. and the museum manages to do that in a moving way visually to. portraits. how. high. the museum relates the darkest chapter in jewish history the show featuring images from german jewish expressionist painter.

frank ritz best known jewish resident is undoubtedly and frank the young girl whose diary was published posthumously in 1947 it's still a bestseller and often taught in schools. at the end frank. educational center young people and school classes can visit a learning lab and find out more about her life in doing so they discover what connects the girl who died at 15 in the bag and bells in concentration camp to young people currently suffering from discrimination and persecution here you remember and says always links to events that young people are witnesses to today. as my hopes are i cannot. it's about recognizing what hurts others after us that

requires us to listen to those affected identified. and then the 3rd step and see how we can act differently. this includes looking beyond traditional stereotypes and changing the way we view others. visitors who have questions about judaism or jewish traditions can ask the rabbi right at the museum. here. he. put the child. museum director miriam benson presents visitors with a multimedia exhibition which lets them explore jewish life with all their senses. let's get on diesel for it's about transmitting jewish history and culture and a moving toward us as that's what we're trying to do here for. 2021 mock 1700 years of jewish life in germany frankfurt looks back on close to

900 years of jewish heritage it's a history full of triumph and tragedy as it is in every other german city. including munich. unique is filled with majestic squares and baroque churches it's also home to the jewish center which opened in 2006. munich's jewish community is the 2nd largest in germany that's because of the arrival of jewish people from former territories of the soviet union who following its break up were allowed to settle in germany. writer lena gorelick moved here with her family in 1992 it was only after immigrating that there then an 11 year old was confronted with jewish traditions for the 1st time. she gets me as my id is it being admitted to you that i learned all these things

that belong to jewish general knowledge like it's not kosher to eat pork. jewish identity was really charged but at school not so much in a negative prejudice way rather people thought it was interesting. put it on this site and as it were the way you would put on a shirt or jacket i'm told in the uk it. after the soviet union dissolved jews were driven to leave by a rise in anti semitic incidents in economically hard hit russia although lena garlick wasn't aware of such events as a child they faced bureaucratic hurdles in moving to germany yet heading there of all places proved a difficult decision for family in search of a better life they ventured from st petersburg to bavaria where the subject of her heritage became essential thing for her. i was the only jew in

my school and some teachers with thrilled to have a jewish girl explained jewish holidays in the catholic religion class. and i was pretty confused to have the situation turned around and for my heritage to be a positive yes positive origins and identity are also recurrent themes in lena garlics books she published a debut novel at age 23. my white knights is a light hearted witty story about a young russian jewish girl who immigrated to germany with her family and how they adjust to their new life. site in jerusalem waiting in jerusalem strikes a similar tone she deliberately avoided sounding melancholy or bleak in her latest novel very easy and who we are coming out in spring in germany returns to the subject of her family but this time the story has

a more hard edged ring to it in it she addresses the question of identity so how does she see herself today. also issued dish does you know i'm kind of german russian and jewish i don't need to know exactly what percentage i am of each one myself and there are days i feel more like one or another and then there are a lot of days when the question doesn't even matter to me a tool in. lynagh or a lake is not alone today there are many prominent jewish authors who like garlic immigrated from russia as children many of the novels can be found here in rochelle salamanders bookshop. when rasho salamander opened a jewish bookstore even nearly 40 years ago in munich it was the 1st of its kind since the beginning of nazi rule a milestone for the city. were shown cell amanda's family comes from eastern europe and most were murdered in the holocaust she

herself was born in a camp for displaced persons where survivors waited to immigrate to israel will the u.s. but the selamat is chose to stay in germany and move to munich. how did the bookshop come about. i felt the story which i was just fascinated by the german jewish cultural heritage and all its written works for defining ideas of what i wanted to take all these books that had been banned and tracked down burned and destroyed. and help them find a home again. today it's the victim's grandchildren and great grandchildren who are reexamining history and authors like and lena gorelick who see the past from new perspectives. the 2nd about so how did this generation has not had to have the same confrontation we had with the children of the perpetrators and coming to terms

with the past is no longer present in contemporary literature to the same extent if one. still the traces of this horrifying chapter in german history can still be seen across munich along with memorials to the victims the past costs a long shadow. become to get. used to mines and holes and you can't wish away history in this city it's in every house in every single family and it was very important to me that when it came to my children jewishness is much more in just this part of history. alexander that man the son of russian jewish immigrants is a typical example of the new jewish generation cosmopolitan and confident. we meet up with him in berlin where he's just finished his acting studies. and. i actually had no idea that i was jewish because it was never discussed in our family religion

was no big deal i didn't relate to being jewish or in fact for me jew was a swear word that was used around me and i even used it myself in elementary school and high school and that man's acting debut anti-semitism is a central theme. and yet it's good to us too. alexander wants to move away from what he sees as a culture of victimhood and remembrance that ignores present day issues. coercively i just don't feel that i can accept the situation any more anti semitism is on the rise it's real and it's happening here. as

a jew in germany i just can't say everything's cool and i feel good with the situation at the moment it was only as a teenager in munich that that man discovered his jewishness and became active in the community it was also during this time that he became a star member of the local youth theatre when the high tide like to see people take a clear position that leads to action. today being jewish is just part of the actor's identity. the noya synagogue in iran back after asa berlin was really concentrated in 1998 and now serves as the hub of berlin's a lively jewish community. rabbi her bag is responsible for this revival she is one of 9 female rabbis in germany personal god stands for diversity tolerance and coexistence. we like to cool ourselves l g b t i q straight inclusive which does not mean that we define ourselves as such or that this is part of a queer friendly trend it is completely natural for us and has been for

a long time. to back study jewish theology and converted to judaism 30 years ago she was fascinated by religion which allows leeway in matters of faith and lifestyle choices. judaism is always evolving and questioning itself how does what our ancestors handed down to us fit modern times or to what values do we adapt and where do we draw the line and keep certain values the way they have always been rightly so. it is a balancing act between the past and the future. alexander van man wants to take his career to the next level so he's leaving berlin for his 1st acting engagement at the renowned theater feel how spot from for jews living in germany he hopes above all that's one i wish that people wouldn't see is weirdos or aliens or give a special treatment after all there's not just one way of being jewish and it's actually incredibly diverse if in fact

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