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How does the world's only Jewish carnival club rejoice at the Cologne street carnival amid conflict in Israel and Gaza? DW finds out at a Sunday pub session.
Aaron Knappstein ist Präsident der Kölsche Kippa Köpp und macht Stadtführungen durch das jüdische Köln.
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 experience. The discovery led Chanin, who works at a logo printing business, to discover that Solomon was ...
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 California, asked about the experience of several years ago. The discovery led Chanin, who works at a logo p...
When Germany's main far-right movement entered parliament in 2017, it was a life-changing wakeup call for 38-year-old Shai Hoffman.