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Exhibit at Berlin Jewish Museum Stokes Debate


Exhibit at Berlin Jewish Museum Stokes Debate
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An exhibit at Berlin's Jewish Museum aims to educate museum-goers about Jews in Germany today. Nearly 180,000 German Jews were killed in the Holocaust, almost the entire community in Germany in the lead up to World War II. Today, the number of Jews in Germany has grown but the percentage of Germany's total population is still miniscule. One display in the show has a Jew sitting in a plexiglass box answering questions about Jews from visitors to the museum. Some critics say the show is degrading, and headline writers have dubbed the exhibit "Jew in a Box." But the show, as Michael Scaturro reports from Berlin, seems less controversial to those visiting the museum.

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