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Katharina Höftmann Ciobotaru | Learning To Believe
Today’s guest Katharina Höftmann was born in Rostock in East Germany. She studied Psychology and German-Jewish History at Humboldt University in Berlin while working as a journalist for various newspapers. Due to receiving a scholarship for Ben Gurion University in Israel, she first stayed in the land that would later become her home base of choice. Katharina converted to Judaism and later wrote about her experiences in the Holy Land in several books and is an accomplished writer and author living in Tel Aviv.
We are talking about her conversion process into Judaism, whether one can learn to believe in God, and how Katharina lost and found her identity whilst attempting to reconcile the Holocaust’s perpetrator-victim relationship for herself.
Find Katharina on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/gutenmorgentelaviv/
Katharina's latest book can be found here (English excerpt available) https://www.new-books-in-german.com/recommendations/alef/
More books by Katharina: https://www.amazon.de/Katharina
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