Which role do urban spaces play for the identities of young, Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants living in Germany today? The ethnologist Alina Gromova accompanied 15 young adults for one year through their daily lives, following them to Jewish meeting places and parties, cafés and homes, synagogues and clubs. Where Jewish, Russian, German, Israeli and Muslim traditions meet, Jewish religion and symbolism are treated informally:
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Where
W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
Klaus Mangold Auditorium
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
(Opposite the Museum)
The "kosher light" generation eludes the clear classification into ethnic and religious categories. The religion and tradition that they live follow the laws of urbanity and thus form a new understanding of what is Jewish.
Moderated by: Yasemin Shooman, Head of the Academy Programs Migration and Diversity
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Event Series: New German Stories (14)
New German Stories
From 2014 to 2018, New German Stories illustrated Germany’s past and present as a multiethnic society through the lens of individual lives. The event series included readings, film screenings, and conversations.
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Phral mende – Who We Are
15 March 2018
Film and Discussion on Perspectives of Sinti and Roma in Germany -
Germanija. How I Became an Adult and a Jew in Germany
Reading and discussion on Dmitrij Belkin's narrative that also throws light on immigration today.
19 Oct 2017 -
With Karamba to the Bundestag
Reading and Discussion with Karamba Diaby (in German)
1 Jun 2017 -
Vater unser
Eine Sintifamilie erzählt
(Our Father. A Sinti Family Recounts)Discussion and reading with Anita Awosusi
23 Mar 2017 -
A Jew in Neukölln:
My Path to Coexistence of ReligionsThe theology student and journalist Ármin Langer presents his first book
19 Oct 2016 -
Children of the liberation
6 July 2016
Discussion and reading with Marion Kraft, Ika Hügel-Marshall and Judy Gummich: The perspectives of black Germans of the postwar generation -
ХАИМ – HEIM (Home)
15 March 2016
Discussion and film clips with Robert Schulzmann -
Doitscha
Eine jüdische Mutter packt aus (A Jewish mother reveals all)19 May 2015
Reading and discussion with Adriana Altaras -
Osama bin Laden is sleeping with fishes
10 March 2015
Reading and discussion with Ahmad Milad Karimi -
The “Koscher Light” Generation
9 September 2014
Reading and discussion with Alina Gromova -
Kıymet
8 July 2014
Film showing and discussion with Canan Turan -
Being German and Black as well
13 May 2014
Reading and discussion with Theodor Michael -
“InderKinder”
On Growing up and Living in Germany20 March 2014
Reading and discussion with Urmila Goel and Nisa Punnamparambil-Wolf -
We, the new Germans
Who we are, what we want15 January 2014
Reading and discussion with Alice Bota, Khuê Pham and Özlem Topçu
Generation “kosher light”. Young Jews of Russian Descent in Berlin
Three questions to Alina Gromova
Interview
8 Sep 2014
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