Storymap by Isabella Buzynski and Kai Mishuris
Based on A Rich Brew: How Cafes Created Modern Jewish Culture, by Shachar M. Pinsker
For many writers and Jewish intellectuals, Romanisches was a mythical crossroads of Jewish culture and creativity. In a sketch called “A briv fun Berlin” (A letter from Berlin), Daniel Charney wrote about the Romanisches Café, “through which came almost the entirety of Yiddish literature and almost the entirety of Jewish society from all corners of the world during the years 1920–1935!” In the Romanisches Café, claimed Charney, “the good idea to found the Yiddish Scientific Institute [YIVO] came about…and the Jewish encyclopedia…The Romanisches Café was, one can say, the transit hub of the entire Yiddishland.”
