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The Bitter Tears of Klaus Biesenbach
How Germany’s cultural elite finds the opinion of Jewish artists hard to bear
Two Kinds of Staatsräson
How Germany uses the singularity of the Holocaust to limit liability for its colonial crimes
Non Carceral Anti-Antisemitism
Towards a Non-Carceral Anti-Antisemitism
Why repressive measures fail to combat antisemitism – and what strategies work better
Structures That Must Be Separated
Responding to Towards a Non-Carceral Anti-Antisemitism The concept of “carceral anti-antisemitism” appears
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From Auschwitz to Skyscrapers
How a group of Jewish concentration camp survivors became pimps, drug dealers, and criminals in postwar Frankfurt
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Philipp Peyman Engel, the Feuilleton section, and the power to decide who is Jewish in Germany
Seifenblasen
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From the archive
Bait and Switch
Painting, censorship, and the legacy of Joe Chialo, Berlin’s Senator for Culture and Social Cohesion
The Conditions for Inner Exile
Emily Dische-Becker on the Berlin Senate’s proposed budget cuts to the cultural sector
About the Diasporist
The Diasporist is an online, bilingual magazine of political criticism, cultural analysis, and new writing from in and outside of Germany.
The Diasporist draws inspiration from intellectual traditions of diasporic thought, modeling pluralistic debate and the value of critical distance. We aim to publish several pieces on each topic of interest, promoting multiple perspectives and informed difference of opinion.
We uphold high editorial standards, believing that writing that is curious, open, witty, provocative, well-informed, and eclectic can convey complex ideas in style as well as substance. We also feature fiction, criticism, original reportage, and broader cultural analysis from both established and emerging voices.