Jewish life in Berlin subject of new show at city’s Jewish Museum

The French photographer Frédéric Brenner has been following Jewish life in the Diaspora beyond Israel for decades. Between 2016 and 2019, he created a series about Jews in contemporary Berlin, a city once rich with Jewish life and traditions before the Holocaust. Some 50 of these works are now among the latest additions to the photographic collection of the Jewish Museum Berlin until March. Hetty Berg, director of the Jewish Museum Berlin, sees the photographs as an “invitation to reflection.” They are fragments of Jewish life that cannot be combined to form a complete picture. The curators of…

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