Artnet

A Trove of Satirical Magazines, Made by a Legal Clerk in Hiding During WWII, Will Go on View in Berlin

In the two years that Curt Bloch spent hiding from the Nazis in the attic of a house in the Netherlands, he launched a weekly satirical magazine filled with photomontages and poems about his own ...
Hyperallergic

Berlin's Jewish Museum Director Resigns After Criticism Over BDS-Related Tweet

The Jewish Museum in Berlin (via Domonic Simpson’s Flickrstream) Peter Schäfer, the director of Berlin’s Jewish Museum, resigned from his post on Friday, June 14, after the museum faced criticism from ...
The New York Times

Jewish Museum Berlin

With his wife and infant sons, he took refuge in unlikely places, including an opera house, an abandoned car and a subway station converted to a bunker. By Richard Sandomir The people who hid Curt ...
Sun Sentinel

Private museum showcasing Jewish history in Berlin at risk

They were philosophers, bankers and musicians: The Jewish Mendelssohn family left distinctive marks on Germany’s intellectual, economic and cultural life as early as the 18th century. However, the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

While Hiding From the Nazis in an Attic, a Jewish Man Created 95 Issues of a Satirical Magazine

Issues from Curt Bloch's Het Onderwater Cabaret will be shown at the Jewish Museum Berlin beginning in February. Jewish Museum Berlin / Curt Bloch collection / Charities Aid Foundation America For two ...
The Forward

Princeton Professor Peter Schafer Named Head of Jewish Museum Berlin

Berlin’s Jewish museum has selected as its new leader a non-Jewish scholar of Jewish studies. Peter Schafer, a German academic who had previously led Princeton University‘s Judaic studies program, ...
World Socialist Web Site

Interview with Udi Raz about dismissal from Berlin’s Jewish Museum

A few weeks ago, the Jewish Museum in Berlin sacked Udi Raz, one of its guides, for speaking the truth about the state of Israel and calling it an apartheid state during guided tours. The WSWS has ...
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Berlin art exhibit in former Nazi bunker explores Jewish experience after October 7

It was a chance visit to a former Nazi bunker while contemplating the complications of being Jewish in post-October 7 Berlin that inspired artist Yury Kharchenko to put together the exhibit, “Bad/Good ...
Artnet

A Berlin Museum Settles With Jewish Heirs to Keep a Contested Kirchner Painting

An important painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, sold under duress by Jewish collector and dealer Victor Wallerstein during World War II, can stay in its current home, Berlin’s Brücke Museum, after a ...
WUNC

Remembering Walter Frankenstein, a Jewish man who lived in Berlin throughout WWII

During World War II, thousands of Jews evaded the Nazis in Berlin, moving from place to place and taking refuge wherever they could. They called themselves U-boats, a reference to the German naval ...
The Jewish Exponent

Berlin Holocaust Memorial Vandalized with Antisemitic Graffiti

A Berlin Holocaust memorial was vandalized with pro-Palestinian and antisemitic graffiti, local police said Thursday. The graffiti, sprayed across the sandstone monument, said “Jews are committing ...