Thursday, April 04, 2013

"Jew in the Box" Berlin Exhibit Causes a Stir

An ongoing exhibit in Germany reminds us of James Luna's "Artifact Piece" from 1987.

Nearly 70 years after the Holocaust, there is no more sensitive an issue in German life as the role of Jews. With fewer than 200,000 Jews among Germany's 82 million people, few Germans born after World War II know any Jews or much about them.

To help educate postwar generations, an exhibit at the Jewish Museum features a Jewish man or woman seated inside a glass box for two hours a day through August to answer visitors' questions about Jews and Jewish life. The base of the box asks: "Are there still Jews in Germany?"

Read the entire article here.

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