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Turkish Berlin: From guest-workers to citizens
Explore the rich and complex layers of German-Turkish history in Berlin through a walking tour across Kreuzberg and Neukölln. We will visit key sites of migration, memory, and cultural transformation, tracing the path from the 19th century, through the Gastarbeiter years, to contemporary life. Along the way, we'll reflect on integration, identity, and the struggles that shape modern Berlin.
A Tour in the Future: Imagining Peace in Berlin
This tour invites you to walk through Berlin's anti-war memorials and peace sites—past, present, and speculative. From critiques of militarism to visions of solidarity beyond nationalism, we engage with authors, artists, and activists who dared to think differently. A reflective, philosophical route through Berlin's landscape of memory and challenge.
And more: Sarajevo, Porto, Rome
JEE is a project dedicated to preserving, transmitting, and reinterpreting layers of European Jewish experiences — in short, making the past present.
JEE unfolds through a combination of:
Walking tours (open and private)
Guided visits
Thematic workshops
Jewish
Experience
Memory is a fundamental part of Jewish life, and the memory of Jewish experiences is essential to human self-understanding—especially after 1945. Here, "Jewish" serves as a window into both particular events and universal meanings.
In the sense of Erfahrung—a path, a journey—, experience can be understood here in two ways:
1. The collected experiences conveyed in testimonies, archives, objects, oral narratives, books.
2. The lived experience of walking and retracing the footsteps of those who came before us and those who are among us.
Jews have been living in Europe since at least the 3rd century BCE, shaping and being shaped by its history. As a protagonist minority, Jews have lived and acted in ways that intertwine with Europe's transformations—whether as a religious community, a national group, a persecuted people, emancipated or assimilated individuals. The Jewish experience is inseparable from what Europe was, is, and can be.
Europe
Cosmopolitan
Academic
We challenge closed borders and self-referential identities by drawing from the stories of a people historically accused of being "rootless"—a group that, through its diasporic, transnational existence, has developed diverse cultures and perspectives.
Rather than a nationalistic or orthodox approach, we adopt an academic one: while respecting traditions and their sacred aura, we prioritize scholarly research, rational interpretation, and multi-perspective critical analysis.
Not in the sense of party politics, but as a reflection on political conditions that have emerged, been lost, or recreated. Understanding history as entangled with agency and responsibility, we follow Walter Benjamin's idea of historical fragments as "flashes" for the present.
Political
Would you like a personalised experience? Speak to the curator to arrange a tailored tour exploring sites of significance to Jewish heritage in Berlin.
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