David Friedmann’s daughter traveled the globe searching for his famous drawings, lost for decades
New Digital Platform Celebrates Else Lasker-Schüler
Lasker-Schüler, one of Germany’s greatest poets, fled to Jerusalem in the 1930s. “Poetic Textures: Else Lasker-Schüler Archives. An Online Platform” offers digital access to a large portion of her literary and artistic legacy.
The Exceptional Lilli Henoch: The Sad Story of a Champion Athlete
Lilli Henoch won championships and set new world records, but her accomplishments weren’t enough to save her from the bullets of the Nazi Einsatzgruppen soldiers
Passing the Torch: The Maccabees of Berlin
More than 80 years after Jewish sports associations were outlawed by the Nazis, hundreds of German athletes still proudly wear the Star of David on their jerseys
“Stranger Things” in Jerusalem: Goethe and Goebbels in the Ticho Family Garden
How Else Lasker-Schüler ventured into her own alternate universe in downtown Jerusalem…
Into the Depths of Evil: How the Nazis “Recruited” the Talmud for Anti-Semitic Propaganda
It was the Talmud, more than any other book, which the Nazis used as conclusive proof of Jewish inferiority and the racial danger posed by the Jewish people.
The Story of Regina Jonas, the First Female Rabbi
Regina Jonas, the first ordained woman Rabbi, writes to Martin Buber, Jewish philosopher and scholar of Hasidic lore, asking for guidance during the dark times of Berlin in 1938.
