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Airlift from Berlin Review

Airlift from Berlin Review

By: Tobias Haberkorn Samir Sellami et al.
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Gespräche mit Autor:innen der Berlin Review Art Literary History & Criticism Science Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Deborah Feldman on Germany's Strange Love for Jews
    Apr 7 2026
    Lauren Oyler talks to Deborah Feldman, author of the memoir Unorthodox and longtime Berliner, about her essay "For the Love of Jews," published in the new issue of Berlin Review. They discuss German philo-Semitism, what Feldman calls a "fetishized compassion" for Jews, how she became a coveted fixture in the German media landscape, and what her experience reveals about the country's complicated relationship with Jewish identity. They also talk about Gaza, the German government's support for Israel, and whether Feldman plans to stay in Germany at all.
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    1 hr
  • Konsumiert, nicht geschätzt — Deborah Feldman und Nora Haddada über Minderheiten und Solidarität
    Mar 28 2026
    Tobias Haberkorn spricht mit Deborah Feldman und Nora Haddada live vor Publikum auf der Leipziger Buchmesse über Minderheiten, Vergleiche und die Tücken der Solidarität. Noras Essay für die Berlin Review untersucht William Gardner Smiths Roman The Stone Face von 1963 — über einen schwarzen Amerikaner, der in Paris dem Rassismus zu entkommen glaubt, bis er sieht, wie die Algerier um ihn herum behandelt werden. Deborahs Essay For the Love of Jews handelt von ihren Jahren in Deutschland und der schleichenden Erkenntnis, nicht geschätzt, sondern konsumiert zu werden. Zusammen fragen sie: Was bedeutet es, wenn die Zuneigung einer Gesellschaft zu einer Minderheit eine andere verdeckt?
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    59 mins
  • Perfection and the Last Gasp of Authenticity
    Mar 20 2026
    Tobias Haberkorn and Lauren Oyler discuss Vincenzo Latronico's _Perfection_, a novel originally written in Italian about a millennial couple's life in Berlin that became a huge success in the Anglophone literary world. Lauren and Tobias discuss why the book is so polarizing, what it says about authenticity and whether the Berlin depicted in the novel even exists anymore.
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    37 mins
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