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A Jew in Neukölln. My Path to Coexistence of Religions

Audio recording: Reading and Discussion as Part of the New German Stories Series (audio recording available, in German)

Committed, pugnacious, and at home in Neukölln – the theology student and journalist Ármin Langer presents his first book at the Jewish Museum Berlin. In it he tells of Jewish life in his district, where few Jews and many Muslims live. He promotes Muslim-Jewish dialogue with his Salaam-Shalom initiative, of whose successes and false starts he reports with refreshing openness.

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Map with all buildings that belong to the Jewish Museum Berlin. The W. M. Blumenthal Academy is marked in green

Where

W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
Klaus Mangold Auditorium
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
(Opposite the Museum)

Through his book and his commitment, Langer also counteracts those voices that regard the Muslim influence in Neukölln with concern and question the safety of Jews in the neighborhood.

A personal appeal, an invitation for discussion.

Audio recording of the reading and discussion with an introduction by Alina Gromova, in German; Jewish Museum Berlin 2016

Ármin Langer

Ármin Langer was born in Munich in 1990 as the son of Hungarian migrants, and grew up in Vienna and Sopron. After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and also visited the Yeshivah in Jerusalem in the summers of 2012 and 2013. Having completed his degree, Langer began to study Jewish theology at the University of Potsdam and was a student rabbi at Abraham Geiger College in Berlin from 2013 to 2016. Langer has worked for several years as teacher and cantor in various Jewish communities in Europe and is also a freelance journalist.

Moderator: Alina Gromova, Jewish Museum Berlin

Black and white portrait of a young man with glasses in half profile

Ármin Langer; photo: Kat Kaufmann

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  • When19 Oct 2016
  • Where W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
    Klaus Mangold Auditorium
    Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
    (Opposite the Museum)
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