Soll sein Schulem

The first volume is a narrative about the fates of his ancestors before and during the Holocaust.

In the second volume, he describes many of his own experiences as a descendant of Holocaust survivors in Europe.

Despite the great challenges of today, he calls for efforts towards peace and reconciliation to be maintained: ‘Soll sein Schulem’ – May there be peace, he calls it.


Daniel Zylbersztajn-Lewandowski was born in Munich in 1969, where he lived until the age of 16. After graduating from high school in Israel, he moved to London in 1991 to study, where he still lives today with his wife, a Creole Sierra Leonean whose own family is connected to slavery and liberation in the Americas.

For about five years, Zylbersztajn-Lewandowski also worked for the Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian peace village Wahat-al Salam – Neve Shalom. A year before 7 October 2023, Daniel was the victim of an anti-Semitic attack in front of his synagogue at the time; years earlier, it was his wife who was beaten up by racists in London.

A taz Talk with:

Daniel Zylbersztajn-Lewandowski has been working as a foreign correspondent for taz in London since 2012. He is the author of the books ‘Soll sein Schulem I: Zores’ and ‘Soll sein Schulem II: Faroys’. His books are published by BoD.

Jan Feddersen will moderate this taz Talk. He is a taz editor, curator of the taz lab and author of various books, including on identity politics and Berlin's Sonnenallee after 7 October.


Event information

• When: Mon, 30 June 2025, 7 p.m.
  
• Admission: 6 p.m.
  
• Where: taz Kantine, Friedrichstr. 21, 10969 Berlin
  

Admission is free. Seat reservations are required. Please use the Pretix reservation tool:
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