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German-Jewish Cultural Heritage in the USA

German-Jewish Cultural Heritage

USA

 

History

Golden ghetto: German-Jews in early Chicago

The corner of Wells and Lake Street in the German-Jewish business quarter in Chicago in 186 Copyright: Chicago History Museum Collection

Some 300,000 Jews live in Chicago today, making it the 10th largest Jewish city in the world. The foundation of the community was laid by German émigrés in the 1840s, in a city full of possibilities.

Documentary

Documentary filmmaker tells his family's history

The Bensinger family before their house in Holon, Tel Aviv in 1950

The transportation of children, Shanghai, Therienstadt: Ethan Besinger wants to tell the personal stories behind these historic terms in a documentary film. His relationship to his own German heritage is ambivalent.

German-Jewish Cultural Heritage

Deutsch-jüdisches Kulturerbe weltweit

Культурное наследие немецких евреев

Link to the past

An American family explores their Jewish roots in Berlin.

Family treasures

Ethan Bensinger shares the long history of his parents' furniture from Germany.

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