The Nation

Germany’s Theater of Memory: “Some People Already See the Flames. Others Don’t Even Smell the Smoke.”

A conversation with Max Czollek about Germans, Jews, Muslims, migration, and the aftermath of October 7 and the war in Gaza. “Biographical confession is the active capital of every minoritized ...
William & Mary

Community, Memory, and Shifting Jewish Identities in Post-Wall Germany: The Case of Munich

Prof. Rob Leventhal, with K.C. Tydgat ('07), Sam Thacker ('08), Ben Fontana ('09) and Olivia Lucas ('08) The "negative symbiosis" of post-war German-Jewish culture took a decisive turn in 1989 with ...
Hyperallergic

As Site of Nazi Terror Is Repurposed, Some Reflections on Memory and Public Art in Germany Today

View looking toward the Stadthöfe complex in Hamburg (image by the author) HAMBURG/MUNICH, Germany — In Germany, two vastly different approaches to public and memorial art are underscoring some of the ...
Brandeis University

The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry

A remarkable, in-depth study of Jewish history, culture and memory in a historic and contemporary German city German and Jewish ways of life have been interwoven in Worms, Germany for over a thousand ...