Check out this latest installment in our Shtetl Berlin series. Next Year In Berlin focuses on Israelis living in the German capital. Click on the play button below to hear our guests hash out the eternal debates: Is Berlin the …
Tag Archives: Germany
Posted in Shortwave
Tagged Berlin, Germany, history, Israel, Jewdyssee, jewish identity, Mary Ocher, Nir DeVolff, Nirit Bialer, Ofri Brin, Ola Lewin, Shtetl Berlin, Tal Alon, travel, Yael Ronen
Liad Hussein Kantorovic is an Israeli living in Berlin. A maven of kitsch, Kantorovic has a campy take on the Passover seder. Click the play button below to hear it. Tune in for more about Israelis in Berlin this Friday …
Before Harvey Milk, before Stonewall, before Kinsey, Hirschfeld’s radical ideas changed the way Germans thought about sexuality.
Posted in History
Tagged Berlin, Germany, LGBTQ, Magnus Hirschfeld, sex, Shtetl Berlin, Steven Blum
Radio road trip to Berlin! Ukrainian DJs, Israeli sex workers, “degenerate” satirists, Roma art, queer bars, drag Passover seders, philosemitism, Jewish breathing lessons, memorial culture….currywurst!
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Tagged Anna Adam, Berlin, Bjoern Weigel, Diversity Destroyed, Germany, Liad Kantorowicz, Moritz Pankok, Oliver Polak, Otto Pankok, Roma, Sinti, Steven Blum, Vivian Kanner, WWII, Yuriy Gurzhy
Graphic novelist and Holocaust survivor Miriam Katin’s son wants her to help him get European citizenship from Hungary so he can move to Germany and be with his girlfriend. What to do?
Posted in Literature
Tagged Blue Metropolis, Drawn and Quarterly, Germany, graphic novels, Holocaust, Letting It Go, Miriam Katin
Circumcision bans in Germany and a new PQ government, lots of separation anxiety going on! We talk w/German Jew Martin Schubert, Dan Seligman of Parti POP + Foreskin Man! Plus 1st Jewish frosh ever in Montreal.
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Tagged circumcision, Dan Seligman, Foreskin Man, Germany, Ghetto Shul, Jewdyssee, LeMood, Martin Schubert, Matt Hess, Pauline Marois, Pop Montreal, PQ
Meet musician Little Birdie, aka Orit Shimoni. Her latest album, Sadder Music, was recorded in Berlin. Hear what she has to say about Germany, walls, old synagogues, and catch her tunes before she plays live at l’Escogriffe on September 29 in Montreal.
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Tagged Berlin, Germany, Holocaust, Israel, Little Birdie, Orit Shimoni, Sadder Music