With the expansion of the EU eastwards and freedom of movement of people Berlin is once again exerting a magnetic force on ambitious young people who want to live in a major metropolitan centre with global connections.
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Start up scenes in major cities tend to reflect the underlying competitive strengths of the cities concerned. Berlin as a major centre for higher education, research and the creative industries tends to more resemble New York than Silicon Valley.
Daniel Kahn:
“I fell in love with the city, the music here, the patchwork of cultures and the kaleidoscope of languages.
“Berlin is a truly cosmopolitan city in the way it hasn’t been since the 1920s.
Unlike Paris or London, it’s a city where artists can afford to be creative and not make a ton of money.
As a base it’s been wonderful.
And what happens when an American Jew, raised by a secular family, falls in love with Berlin not in spite of his being a Jew but because of it? The answer is Berlin for Jews. Part history and part travel companion, Leonard Barkan’s personal love letter to the city shows how its long Jewish heritage, despite the atrocities of the Nazi era, has left an inspiring imprint on the vibrant metropolis of today.
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