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Hidden memorials in Berlin

By Ben Harris · October 24, 2009

The Wandering Jew files a video tour of places of Holocaust remembrance that are often overlooked in Germany’s capital.

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I’m a little late on this, but the bi-weekly magazine Tip Berlin had a cover story in its last issue about the Israeli and Jewish-themed parties in the German capital. The print edition also had a lovely photo of my new friend Elina Tilipman, who got a ticket dropping me off at the train station in Berlin on Friday (sorry Elina!).

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Laughing it off

By Ben Harris · October 24, 2009

Last weekend, the buzz in Osnabrück was that Oliver Polak was performing that evening at a theater in town. Polak grew up in Papenburg, about 150 kilometers to the north, but his family were members of the Osnabrück community and most of the older Jews in town knew him as a boy.

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Golem rocks Berlin

By Ben Harris · October 22, 2009

The Wandering Jew is in Berlin, with video from the Golem show last week.

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Der Wander Jude

By Ben Harris · October 20, 2009

I got a chance to see Golem last night in their first ever performance in Germany. The crowd loved it, and I’ll have a short video on the show and the band soon.

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At home in Germany

By Ben Harris · October 19, 2009

On the train from Dusseldorf back o Berlin, a ride so (generally) smooth you could perform open heart surgery in the center aisle (I’m talking to you Amtrak!), I cracked open Michael Chabon’s latest collection of essays, ""Manhood for Amateurs."

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City of Peace

By Ben Harris · October 18, 2009

A shabbat in Osnabrück, a small community that has been transformed by the arrival of more than a thousand Russian Jews over the past 20 years

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Then we take Berlin

By Ben Harris · October 16, 2009

I admit my eyes glazed over, and not solely from the jetlag, when I flipped open my laptop at 6 a.m. Berlin time and found that Roger Cohen had returned again to his favorite subject.