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High Holiday prayer book, drawing by Hugo Steiner-Prag. It shows the Tablets of the Law in the burning bush; the Hebrew text ("And all the people perceived the thunderings..") is from the prayer on the first day of Shavu’oth.

Amos Elon presenting his book 'The pity of it all : a history of Jews in Germany, 1743-1933' at the Center for Jewish History

Photography of Max Liebermann (1847-1935) painting

Title page of Moses Mendelssohn's book “Jerusalem”, published in Berlin in 1783

The Petersdorff Department Store, built by the architect Erich Mendelsohn 1927/28 in Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland (Photograhy by Fritz Krapp)

The Leo Baeck Institute New York is a research, exhibition, and lecture center whose library and archives offer the most comprehensive documentation for the study of German Jewish history.

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The German-Jewish impact on European culture...