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322 shares Max Solomon, dressed for participation in a pre-lent Carnival as president of the the Kleinen Kolner Klub, or Little Cologne Club, pre-1933. (Courtesy Laura Chanin/JTA) JTA — Looking over an old family scrapbook several years ago, Laura Chanin saw a puzzling photograph of her paternal great-grandfather, Max Solomon, wearing women’s clothes. She had questions. “What is this? Why is he in drag?” Chanin, the 53-year-old mother of one from California, asked about the experi...

In Germany, COVID-19 postpones the revival of the Jewish Carnival tradition that the Nazis tried to end Aaron Knappstein, in blue and white tam, watches the Carnival with friends in 2019. (Toby Axelrod) Advertisement (JTA) — Looking over an old family scrapbook, Laura Chanin saw a puzzling photograph of her paternal great-grandfather, Max Solomon, wearing women’s clothes. She had questions. “What is this? Why is he in drag?” Chanin, a 53-year-old mother of one from Californ...