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K. Jews, Europe, 21st Century
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Category: Culture/Chronicle

Culture/Chronicle brings together two complementary approaches. On the one hand, there are texts on books, films, series, shows, exhibitions, and concerts—all works that explicitly or implicitly revisit issues of Jewish life, Europe, minorities, memory, and politics. On the other, chronicles: situated, subjective, sometimes recurring statements that start from a detail, a scene, or a debate to capture the spirit of the times.
Culture/Chronicle is where these two sections intersect: the works become observatories of the present, and the chronicles become ways of recounting how this present is reflected in books, images, and music. Together, they draw a sensitive map of Jewish and European imaginations today.

Pogrom, Flood and Ark

In this text, Anne Simon examines the imagery conjured up by the massacres of 7 October: between the reference to the pogrom that was employed...