BERLIN (JTA) – An Israeli artist is challenging boundaries – national, political and artistic – with his project to create a Jewish state in the former East Germany. Ronen Eidelman wants to raise ...

This is the text of “Weimar in Waltham,” the talk on the early history of Brandeis with which Max Richter Professor of American Civilization Stephen J. Whitfield opened the Dec. 15 faculty symposium ...

Germany looked stable and prosperous in 1928, but the Weimar Republic was already built on fragile loans, rural anger, and ...

The German visual artists who worked during the Weimar Republic — among them George Grosz, Hannah Höch, and Otto Dix — are celebrated the world over for their stylistic inventions and brutal critiques ...

In the 1920s, Yiddish was more than just a lingua franca for East European Jewish émigrés; it was also a language of high culture, as demonstrated by a brilliant new book, “Yiddish in Weimar Berlin: ...

Gustav Stresemann, Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic from 1923 to 1929, at the General Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva. (Wikimedia Commons). If the object of learning history is ...

In the vast graveyard that is Europe, there lies a sacred plot reserved for the Weimar Republic — Germany’s bright but stillborn sanctuary for liberalism, libertinism and a host of other projected ...

Introduction: Modern Surface and Postmodern Simulation: a Retrospective Retrieval -- Agendas of Surface and Simulacrum -- Weimar Surfaces Now -- Tactility in the City -- Exhibiting Superficies -- ...

Combining the study of film, history, social movements, psychopathology and art, ‘Weimar Film and Culture’ presents a portrait of Germany at its moment of greatest cultural crisis: between WWI and ...

From January through May 2024, as the centerpiece of its 2023–2024 season, Carnegie Hall presents Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice, an expansive citywide festival exploring one of ...

Wilhelmine precedents for the Bauhaus : Hermann Muthesius, the Prussian state, and the German Werkbund / John V. Maciuika -- Henry van de Velde and Walter Gropius : between avoidance and imitation / ...