Germany celebrates a historic milestone of Jewish culture while looking forward
As their community turns 1,700 this year, Germany’s Jews want to cast off the bleak history of the Holocaust in favor of a ‘living Judaism.’
Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) memorials mark where Jews were taken from their homes or places of business during the Holocaust. Photo by Hans Braxmeier/Pixabay/Creative Commons
May 6, 2021
BERLIN (RNS) In an early scene from last year’s darkly comic film “Masel Tov Cocktail,” the teenage protagonist, Dimitrij “Dima” Liebermann, is lounging in a German city park, reflecting on how he broke the nose of a classmate who insulted him for being Jewish.