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This podcast brings together two outspoken artists from different cultures and historical legacies — Germany and Jewish America — to explore the human stories behind the headlines. Rooted in music, memory, and activism, The German and the Jew is a heart-centered dialogue about where we’ve come from, what we’ve survived, and how we fight for justice today. Hosted by SONiA disappea fear and Hanne Kah.

Vitality floods its pages. Philosophers and kings, warriors and merchants, poets and financiers come alive as the story ranges across time and the globe. From ancient Palestine through Europe and the Orient, to America and modern Israel, Max Dimont shows how the saga of the Jews is interwoven with the history of virtually every nation on earth.

Benno Neuburger, a modest land investor from Munich, and Anna Einstein, daughter of a cattle dealer from Laupheim, marry in 1907. They begin their lives together with great hope. It is a relatively prosperous time and a very optimistic one for German Jews who are enjoying a social renaissance in the industrializing, urbanizing rising star that is Germany. It’s not clear that this good fortune might begin to unravel.

Who were the Gestapo officers? Were they merely banal paper shufflers, or were they recognizably evil? Were they motivated by an eliminationist anti-Semitism? Did the average German know about the mass murder of Jews and other undesirables while they were happening? Exactly how was Nazi terror applied in the daily lives of ordinary Jews and Germans? Eric A. Johnson answers these questions as he explores the roles of the individual and of society in making terror work.

The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder. Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has become a cause célèbre. In Belonging and Betrayal, Charles Dellheim turns this story on its head by revealing how certain Jewish outsiders came to...

Brennen ist eine atemlose Reise, voller Exzesse, skurriler Begegnungen, über Grenzen, an den Rand von Abgründen – und immer wieder zurück zu den Sommern der Jugend in Tel Aviv, zu Tyler und einer Nacht, die alles veränderte. Zwölf Jahre, nachdem das Schicksal die beiden auseinandergerissen hat, drängt es den Erzähler, seinem Freund Tyler zu schreiben: von dem Leben, das inzwischen vergangen ist.

Drei Freunde - eine Afroamerikanerin, ein deutscher Jude und ein Afrodeutscher - setzen sich in einen Raum und reden über ihre Erfahrungen in Deutschland. Das ist nicht der Anfang eines schlechten Witzes, sondern die neue Podcast-Reihe "Two Blacks and a Jew"! Was wir dabei mit unserem Podcast erreichen wollen, ist eigentlich recht schnell erklärt: Berührungsstellen schaffen, um die Erfahrungen von Minderheiten in Deutschland näher zu bringen. Nach wie vor merkt man nämlich, insbesondere als Minderheit, dass die deutsche Gesellschaft eine recht homogene Masse ist und Menschen anderer ...