Weird
I'm sitting in the lobby of the iconic Adlon Hotel in Berlin. And the pianist is playing 'If I Was a Rich Man' from Fiddler on the Roof.
Times change.
I'm sitting in the lobby of the iconic Adlon Hotel in Berlin. And the pianist is playing 'If I Was a Rich Man' from Fiddler on the Roof.
Times change.
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Max Kaye
February 25th, 2008 3:29pmSure times change. What did you expect, the Horst Wessel song? Still, I do know what you mean.
J. Isaacs
February 25th, 2008 4:46pmThere are several German klezmer bands currently playing the European and US festival circuits. My music teacher tells me the German interest in klezmer is a guilt thing.
Scipio
February 25th, 2008 7:37pmIt has to be so weird being Jewish and walking the streets of Berlin. A friend of mine took a walking tour of Berlin called "The Infamous Third Reich tour" which he strongly recommended.
London Calling
February 25th, 2008 7:55pmCould the pianist be expressing the fact that he is low paid? Or is it propaganda, to divert the guests from the Waldorf salad?
Lee Jakeman
February 26th, 2008 12:40amIf any of you, from reading this, assumed that the pianist MUST HAVE BEEN JEWISH - then times haven't really changed at all.
Joshua
February 26th, 2008 11:31am"It has to be so weird being Jewish and walking the streets of Berlin." -- It is weird being Jewish and walking the streets of virtually any city or town in Europe. I lived for a time in Łódź in Poland. Before the Holocaust an estimated 230,000 Jews (around 34% of the total population) lived in that city. Almost all Jews were murdered. Today a handful of Jews are left; virtually all of the Jews left in Poland after the war (most had survived the war in Russia) were chased out by a lethal combination of murderous pogroms and state-sponsored anti-Semitism. Today (well, at least until a few years ago), pretty much every building in Łódź has been defaced with the most hideous anti-Semitic graffiti.