Er galt als der Philosoph, der die weltweiten Probleme um Weltklima, Technologie und Globalisierung am entschiedensten in den Blick genommen hat. Sein 1979 erschienenes Buch «Das Prinzip…

Der neue tachles-Podcast «Echo in die Zukunft» blickt zurück und damit vorwärts zugleich: Er vereint Interviews von Persönlichkeiten der Zeitgeschichte. In dieser ersten Episode spricht der…

Der neue tachles-Podcast «Echo in die Zukunft» blickt zurück und damit vorwärts zugleich: Er vereint Interviews von Persönlichkeiten der Zeitgeschichte von Hans Sahl, Judith Kerr, Imre Kertesz,…

Recently, on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of Jewish history in America, a number of Jewish historians reminisced about the bad old days, when American Jewish history was considered somewhere…

Some Impressions When my mother came to Vancouver from Calgary in 1947, she told me, “It was a difficult time. We lived in the back of a grocery store. My brother and I shared a sort of room. We had…

It’s been more than a decade since Ilan Sandler first delighted the city of Toronto with his giant sculpture Double Storey. From May to September 2003, his 5.5 metre-tall stainless-steel lawn chair…

Between 1933 and 1948 only 5000 Jews were admitted to Canada, the lowest number of any Western nation. Luckily for future generations of youngsters, Lies and Hans Morgenstern, a couple from Fürth,…