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Should We Care About Günter Grass's Vaguely Anti-Semitic German Poetry?

Should We Care About Günter Grass’s Vaguely Anti-Semitic German Poetry?

Novelist, Nobel Prize winner and former Waffen-SS member Günter Grass just published a new poem critical of Israel's position on Iran with vague, anti-Semitic overtones. Must we expend energy wondering about this old German's poetry?
Marina Weisband: A Jewish Pirate in German Politics

Marina Weisband: A Jewish Pirate in German Politics

Marina Weisband is a 24 year-old German politician who recently resigned her post. Fabian Wolff reports on how far a Jew almost made it in Germany.
Hipster Hitlers in Germany Are No Comic Strip

Hipster Hitlers in Germany Are No Comic Strip

A new culture of Hitler Name droppers in Germany. Let's call them the Hitlerifik Twitkidz. They're no Nazis. They just pretend to be.

A Berlin Jew

There is a token popular Jew in every cultural field. There's Author Jew, Movie Jew, Music Jew, TV Jew. They have their place, somewhere between non-threatening folklore and bittersweet nostalgia.