(Jewish Group) Babylon Berlin is famous for its attention to detail -- did it get its Jewish story right? SPOILERS [View all]

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After Shabbat dinner at a home in the Jewish quarter of Berlin, a visitor from New York watches the street below.

He is meant to meet a man to recover a stolen family heirloom, but his hosts, relatives he hasn’t seen in years, won’t let him leave their apartment. Abe Gold — who changed his name from Avrum Goldstein and now lives large as a gangster in America — is instead made to witness a family singalong.

Gathered together around a piano, his cousins, aunts and uncles sing a Yiddish tune with the one-word refrain of “glik,” luck.

Gold is lucky that his family took him in. Parting the curtain of the window, Gold sees police under the streetlamps — he is wanted for kidnapping two women related to the man who stole his father’s diamond.

His uncle, observing the trap he avoided, says “our ancestors were not stupid; on Shabbos you stay home.”

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