Reading: Gerhard Haase-Hindenberg from "I have never met a Jew..."

"I've never met a Jew": Most Jews have heard this sentence before. To mark the anniversary of "1700 years of Jews in Germany", actor and Spiegel bestselling author Gerhard Haase-Hindenberg tells of the diversity of Jewish life in Germany. About Dagmar, who applies for the police force behind her Jewish father's back; about Marina, who came to Germany from the former USSR and is only confronted with her family's religious past here; and about David, the jazz musician from New York who discovers the "most Jewish city" in Germany in Berlin. There is the Jewish German army doctor who deliberately wears a kippah even when on duty and the research assistant at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center who derives his Jewish faith from mathematics, and the stories of people who converted to Judaism of their own free will are told. The author interweaves all these stories of the everyday lives of Jews living in Germany, their stories and experiences, their hopes and the threats posed by rising anti-Semitism with explanations of symbols, religious practice and history.