“Jewish life today is different than before the war,” says Boris Feldmann. “The revival of Jewish life in Berlin is the revival of Russian-speaking Jews.”
Berlin
Berlin is my adopted hometown. I first visited the divided city in 1988, when I was backpacking around Europe the summer after high school. Nobody then would have imagined that the Berlin Wall would fall in a little more than a year.
In 1996 I received a Fulbright Fellowship for Young Journalists and set up shop as a journalist in Berlin. Even though I’ve moved away at least three times since then, I keep returning. Easygoing and tolerant, the city has become a magnet for the whole world.
East or West, New Ways Are Best – Sort Of
“The Wall at the end of the street was our horizon,” says Michael Gabbert. “It was unimaginable that these two parts of Germany would ever be together.”
Football’s Drive to Gain Yardage in Europe
Playing to German fascination with American culture, games in the NFL Europe League are accompanied by hot dogs, popcorn, and the US national anthem.
A New Germany; A New Berlin
The largest city between Paris and Moscow, Berlin still exudes a certain air of self-conscious provinciality incongruous to its population of 3.5 million.The roots lie in the island mentality of West Berlin and the isolation of East Berlin from outside influences.
Curb-Side Symbolism as Berlin Rebuilds
The proposal to demolish the Palace of the Republic has fed suspicions among eastern Germans that the West is attempting to erase all signs of their past identity.
Grateful Berlin Recalls US Rescue
Sgt. Charles Bass neatly filled in the last entry of Dieter Hahn’s school attendance booklet with the words: “1946-47, evenings and Sunday mornings, softball and democracy.”
Germans Use Their Green Thumbs to Cultivate the Cities
Barbara Sauer is one of 84,000 Berlin gardeners who spends the summer months cultivating her garden in a so-called “garden colony.” The topography of Germany’s metropolis is dotted with more than 800 such garden colonies.
