‘You should really write.’ He flung at me. ‘But what about?’ I asked, panicked.
‘You know, humanity and things like that. You should just write.’ He went back to his newspaper and I was not encouraged to write anything more than a grocery list.
But here are my writings about “humanity and things like that”. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Berlin’
- What rights? Of the Rights Animals Should Have -
Posted in animal rights, animals, rights, tagged abuse, animal rights, animal shelters, animals, Berlin, blogs, cats, food, humane, humanity, hunt, illogical, israel, murder, pets, rights, Tel Aviv, writing on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
- Part I: From Dachau With Love: Tales of an Israeli girl in Berlin –
Posted in Berlin, Dachau, Germany, holocaust, shoa, tagged Berlin, Germany, holocaust, shoa, jewish, Dachau, israel, past, Treblinka, Tel Aviv, love, romance, true love, new germany, nazi, monuments, cold, rails, parents, future, auschwitz, shivers, the seventh million, tom segev, revenge, beer, clean, sexy language, denial, Third Generation, DNA, judenschmerz, Fania Oz-Zelzberger on April 1, 2008 | Comments Off
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Ghetto, Gestapo, Gas, Goering, Goebbels, Galicia hmm… Germany?
One fine night, just before I was to fly to Munich and meet my German boyfriend, a selected group was sitting at a smoky bar: my trusted sister, some good friends and two Germans I met in Ramallah during a demonstration some two days earlier. According [...]
-Part III: Only fifteen minutes from Buchenwald -
Posted in Belfast, Berlin, Buchenwald, Catholic, Germany, Irish, Weimar, ghetto, holocaust, racism, shoa, tagged Berlin, palestine, Belfast, ireland, anti-Semitism, Catholic, Protestant, Weimar, Buchenwald, graffiti on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two summers ago, while visiting a gray place called Belfast I have managed to encounter an astounding array of anti-Semitic observations. As far as I could gather, the excuse for this maddening racism is Catholic Irish solidarity with the Palestinians as occupied people. Since those who chose to inflict their racism upon me were Catholic [...]
- Part II: Signs – More of being an Israeli Girl in Berlin -
Posted in Berlin, Germany, holocaust, shoa, tagged Berlin, Germany, holocaust, shoa, jewish, israel, past, memorials on March 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is the second part for “From Dachau With Love”:
Mesmerized by the spectacular views passing by as bus number 48 drove on an early Monday morning from Alexander Platz, I was determined to observe Berlin as a new inhabitant, and not as a mistrustful sightseer. My heart was singing while looking at all that beauty. [...]