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Nadine Grzeszick

Apr 13, 2014, 9:42 PM

Passover is the most beautiful holiday to me. Like no other Chag, it symbolizes the essence of being Jewish. Sitting at a table surrounded by the ones we love, we tell a story that creates a magical link between...

Feb 25, 2014, 9:44 PM

O brothers, where art ye?

In a recent article in the German magazine ZEIT, Jewish author Maxim Biller writes that contemporary German literature is boring because it is too homogeneous. Biller, who was born in Prague but moved to Germany as a child, complains...

Nov 14, 2013, 1:42 PM

German Jews or Jews in Germany?

Once upon a time in a region in Middle Europe there lived a man named Moses Mendelssohn. Moses was Jewish and his mother tongue was Yiddish. Yet he was deeply ashamed of his language or "jargon," as he would...

Nov 10, 2013, 9:50 PM

75 Years Later: The “Good Germans”

November 9 in Heidelberg, 75 years after Kristallnacht. The old synagogue square is crammed with people. The majority of them are strangers to me. Barely visible in the darkness, a church choir starts singing. After a while I notice...

Nov 7, 2013, 1:36 PM

Jewish in Germany: Genesis

Would you have thought that American Jews and German non-Jews have similar ideas about the Jewish people? I know it sounds very unlikely, but just set out on a little experiment and introduce them to a German Jew. - "A...

About Me

Nadine Grzeszick was born in a small German town in 1987. Over the last 10 years, she has been struggling with the question of how to reconcile her Jewish identity with living in Germany. Her blog explores the difficult as well as the hilarious sides of Jewish life in her native country. Nadine is a journalist, who has recently graduated in English literature.