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The Salvation Complex

In Germany, artists have merged Volk and art into one concept. For these artists, this utopian unity means cultural emancipation from everything perceived as Jewish. Accordingly, Jews and Jewish culture have always represented a threat to them. Antisemitism has become an integral part of their vision of a free world. To this day, the relevance of these artists and their worldviews has not suffered as a result. Today, no one seems to know exactly what antisemitism actually is. Rather, art and its freedom are seen as threatened by the unjust accusation of hostility towards Jews as soon as the antisemitic core of these worldviews is criticised.

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This so-called pacifism is a petty-bourgeois ideology

What the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine means for local art and cultural institutions usually goes under the radar. Ukrainian curator Vasyl Cherepanyn works in several initiatives that help those affected and, in an interview with »Jungle World«, criticizes the silence of Western cultural institutions and the »westsplaining« of the left.

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Anti-Semitism in the Arts – Art and its Conflicts

Anti-Semitism didn’t begin with the extermination of the Jews, but rather with the cultivation of particular world views ingrained with anti-Semitism. All known manifestations of anti-Semitism preceded a cultural legitimation by resorting to the same images and projections of Jews and Jewish culture. These images have over time become woven into the cultural memory, that they naturally and unwittingly become reproduced and further cultivated. But what kinds of images are we dealing with here?