The Russian Embassy in Berlin is hosting for the first time the Berlin Mercedez Benz Fashion Week involving German high society and prominent foreign guests.
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Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate was decorated with"¦ corpses of 17 small whales and dolphins on Monday in a dramatic action by Greenpeace activists to urge countries to resist increasing pressure for a resumption of commercial whaling.
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Although Jews played a major role as competitive athletes at the start of the twentieth century, they do not occupy a significant place in Jewish memory. We cordially invite you to attend her English talk entitled "Swimming Against Stereotype" on Monday 21 May at the Jewish Museum Berlin.
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On the 95th anniversary of the Yiddish poet Lajser Ajchenrand's birth, the Swiss publishing company Ammann published in German "MIMAAMAKIM"("Aus der Tiefe" first published in Paris, 1953), his most significant collection of poems.
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The special exhibition "Home and Exile" will be on show until the end of April at the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Museum is now showing the interactive multimedia installation "The Danube Exodus" by the Hungarian artist Péter Forgács from the Labyrinth Project at the beginning of the exhibition to add an artistic perspective on the theme.
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They wavered between hate and homesickness. And when they made the decision to return to Germany, it was a foreign country they returned to. Probably not more than a few thousand of the nearly 300,000 Jewish refugees and emigrants returned to Germany, bringing their experiences of persecution and exile with them.
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At Harvard, it's often the small things that make it whether you belong or not: a luggage label, a tweed jacket, an invitation to the "right" student party. And even if Henry White wins all these insignia during the course of his studies at Harvard, he will never really belong to the elite core. He is Jewish, above all in the eyes of others.
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André Glucksmann is one of France's leading philosophers. His criticism of communism brought him fame overnight in the mid-seventies. He has challenged the conscience of the Western world like few others. Now he has published his memoirs. The Jewish Museum Berlin and the Literaturhandlung cordially invite you to the book presentation after which the historian Dan Diner talks to André Glucksmann on Monday 26 March, 8 pm.
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The documentary by David Bernet and Robert Ralston "Jew by Choice," which follows the conversion of three Germans to Judaism, will have its première at the Jewish Museum Berlin. The film will be shown on on 27 March 2007, 7 pm, at Old Building, 2nd level, Concert Hall. Admission is free.
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How do children and young people experience one of today's most brutal conflicts? An answer to this question is provided by the pictures in the exhibition "Drawn by War" showing in the Eric F. Ross Gallery at the Jewish Museum Berlin. The international human rights organization Human Rights Watch distributed pens and paper to children and young people in refugee camps.
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In the second part of his autobiography "Mein heiliges Land," the well-known actor and author Michael Degen paints a vivid and moving picture of Israel's founding years and postwar Germany. We cordially invite you to attend his reading at the Jewish Museum Berlin on Monday 19 March.
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