Wieland Hoban / 07 Jul 2021
German Anti-Anti-Semitism
The Czars for Jewish Life Problem
What do Germans mean when they speak of “fighting Antisemitism”? (...)
Felix Klein
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 / 12 May 2021
1700 Years of German Jewish Culture
The Rocky Road to Normalisation, Part II
While it’s unsurprising to see Felix Klein – who tends to accuse people of Antisemitism, including Jews – among endorsers of the 1948 Exhibition, it’s less predictable to find him interviewed in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, a magazine covering contemporary art music, founded by Robert Schumann.(...)
Wieland Hoban / 07 May 2021
The Rocky Road to Normalisation
Celebrating Jewish Germany, Part I
The year 2021 marks 1700 years of “Jewish life” in Germany. (...)
Wieland Hoban / 21 Oct 2020
Compensating for the Holocaust
German Public Zionism
Insisting on Israel’s right to exist conceals the fact that states exist or do not exist. They do not have a ‘right’ to exist. There is no reason to perform the ritual of asserting that any state has this right before it is considered acceptable to say anything critical about it.(...)
Joel Schalit / 31 May 2019
The Blame Game
Germans and Antisemitism
“Their decision was racist,” my attorney said. “There was no legal basis to deny you permanent residency in Germany.”(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 05 Apr 2019
Exploding German Identity Politics
Rammstein’s Deutschland
The hysteria was predictable. Posing as both concentration camp inmates and their Nazi executioners, the video for Rammstein’s new song “Deutschland” was destined to infuriate one demographic, just as selecting a black actress, Ruby Commey, to personify Germania, was bound to piss off another.(...)