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What a Vietnam-born artist can teach us about Jewish memory

Although we like to call ourselves the "people of the book," much of Jewish memory is based on communication with objects.

By Andrew Silow-Carroll March 13, 2018 5:29 pm

Two Berlin museums return works to heirs of Jewish collector

The 11 works were returned to the heirs of Margarete Oppenheim, whose collection was liquidated in 1936.

January 22, 2018 11:08 am

This Little-Known German Jewish Refugee Made Stirring Art About Trauma

Imagine a box made of and filled with wire and string, frayed cloth, rotted paper, wood, stitching, netting, and mesh. Imagine that this box symbolizes the trauma and beauty of the world. Now imagine that this work was created by a German Jewish refugee named Hannelore Baron, whose experience watching her father beaten during Kristallnacht […]

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