Maxime Sattonnay / 30 Mar 2022
Putting Refugees First
French Aid Workers in Poland
Everyone’s going to Poland. Not just from Ukraine, but Western Europe.(...)
Interviews
Oliver Sheppard / 16 Feb 2022
The Ian MacKaye Interview
Steady Diet of Nothing at Thirty
In 1991, Fugazi released Steady Diet of Nothing, their sophomore full-length. Coming on the heels of the brilliant Repeater LP, Steady Diet, to some, felt anticlimactic.(...)
The Battleground / 23 Oct 2021
Don’t Call it World Beat
The Charlie Bertsch Interview, Part II
Culture is never foreign. The more distant it seems, the more we find that it ultimately looks or sounds familiar. (...)
The Battleground / 08 Oct 2021
Music Opens Your Mind
Listening for the Future: The Charlie Bertsch Interview
In the 1960s, they called it consciousness-raising. The idea was that popular music is about social change.(...)
Elmira Lyapina / 02 Jul 2021
Enjoyed But Excluded
Roma Musicians in Czechia
While Roma people are the largest ethnic minority in Czechia, constituting an estimated 2.2 per cent of the population, they're one of the most discriminated against in the country.(...)
Wieland Hoban / 26 May 2021
Still Too Close to the Holocaust
The Micha Brumlik Interview, Part II
His academic career is self-evident. Micha Brumlik is extremely cautious with how he characterises Jewish life in today’s Germany.(...)
Wieland Hoban / 20 May 2021
German Jews and the Left
The Micha Brumlik Interview, Part I
Contemporary Jewish life in Germany is not what it once was. Still recovering from the Holocaust, its cultural figures lack the international stature that their pre-WWII predecessors still have. (...)
Wieland Hoban / 14 Apr 2021
Antisemitism and its Privileges
The JID Interview, Part III
Israel and Antisemitism are synonymous with one another. Not because Israel means Jewish, but because the country was founded by Jews, as a response to European racism.(...)
Wieland Hoban / 06 Apr 2021
Jews and the German Left
The JID Interview, Part II
Like Muslims, Jews in Germany often complain about being stereotyped. (...)
Wieland Hoban / 26 Mar 2021
Jewish in Germany
The JID Interview, Part I
Israelis in Germany. Say what? Few stories about European immigration have been as loaded, and complex as those about Jews moving from the Middle East to Germany. (...)