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Chicken soup with collards and creole matzoh balls

Serves about 8

Deliciously spicy matzoh balls plus earthy collard greens and the pot liquor they give off make Southern magic in this homey chicken soup. You can use a readymade creole seasoning mix for the matzoh balls, if you wish, but you may need to adjust the salt in the recipe. The larger amount of fat or oil will give you richer-tasting, creamier matzoh balls that are slightly denser and heavier; using less will yield dumplings that are lighter and more delicate. So choose the amount of fat according to your preference.

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Seder in American South: A Gefilte Gumbo

Pecans and a shot of Jack Daniels stirred into haroset. Smothered greens with schmaltz and griebenes. Creole matzoh balls simmered in the gumbo.

Sounds like the inventive Seder menu of a hipster chef on Orchard Street or some bistro in Bushwick, Brooklyn? But dishes like these—many co-created with African-American cooks and caterers--have been savored at Jewish Passovers in the American South for generations.

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The Moldovan Jewish Family Album

13 Panels, 150x200

The bilingual (Russian/Romanian) Centropa exhibition “The Moldova Jewish Family Album” is based on our 24 interviews with Jewish Holocaust survivors from Moldova and on almost 400 digitized old family pictures and documents. Through their pictures and stories, we have preserved the memory of a lost Jewish world.

Contact: ruhle [at] centropa.org (Fabian Rühle)

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Two person poetry

Film response to a Centropa film

Love on a paper airplane

We can not travel in time. We can not enter the photo studio of Emil Keglovits in Szeged in 1912, when Zsigmond Braun and Aranka Buchhalter pose for their wedding picture. We can not enjoy the holiday in Abbazia in 1916 with wealthy families. We can not visit the butchery of Simon Goldgruber, where he told about all his memories from the first world war. We can not be guests at the traditional Jewish wedding of Henrik Klein and Rózsa Wagschal in 1910 in Máramarossziget (today's Romania), and can not ask Paula Feith, who was a nurse in a military hospital during the first world war.

Maximilian von Schoeler

Project and Partnerships Manager & Child Protection Officer

schoeler [at] centropa.org

Maximilian studied Social Science at Humboldt University of Berlin and received his master’s degree in Holocaust Communication and Tolerance at Touro College Berlin. From 2009 until 2015 he worked at Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS) at Free University of Berlin for the online oral history archives „Forced Labor 1939-1945“ and „Witnesses to the Shoah“, and assisted organising and conducting the annual CeDiS Summer School from 2013 until 2016.

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