70 years of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, “an imperative voice is needed”

It was intended to be a transient facility, when only five years after the Holocaust, the mass killing of six million Jews across Germany, survivors revived the local Jewish netpaintings play station and founded the Central Council of Jews in Germany. He intended to represent the patience of Jewish life in the land of murderers.

The rebirth of Jewish communities began more than a week after the end of World War II and the defeat of the Nazi apple Germabig at the hands of the Allies in 194. Munich’s “Israeli Cultural Community,” one of the largest Jewish communities on the Germabig block, has just celebrated 7 years since its restoration.

When the Jews settled in Spire in the 11th century, they built the Judenhof (Jewish courtyard), a constant of synagogue, women’s synagogue and formality bath. The ruins of the synagogue (left) and the adjacent women’s synagogue (right) are visual today. Jewish devotees used to be held here. Women were able to follow the parties by hearing holes in the partition.

The remains of the synagogue are described as the oldest Jewish design of the worst in the Middle Ages. Visitors can access the Judenhof through the small Schpira Museum with its archaeological exhibits. Schpira is the Hebrew call for Spire. Worms was called Warmaisa (W pronounced U) and Mainz Magenza. These 3 cities were shortened and called ShUM Cities.

Next to the ruins of the synagogue, mikvé. The 12th-century Jewish ritual bath is the oldest agreement of its kind in Central Europe. On the way down, a friend of the nearest Romanesque portal ends up in an antechamber with a stone bench, which could have served as a cloakroom. Another fingreatest friend of the ladder ends up in the water basin, 10 meters (32.8 feet) underground.

The Worm Synagogue is the best friend of virtually 1,000 years and has been destroyed and rebuilt several times over the centuries. During the Nazi era, he was the victim of the Pogrom of November 1938 (Kristallnacht). In 1961, the relevo tok place. At the time, there was no Jewish community, however, today the centers are re-organized here.

This synagogue also includes Worndnd’s main corridor and a women’s synagogue (left behind the columned passages). As in Spire, there is a synagogue and mikvae complex in Worms. It was very old at the time which makes the cities of ShUM so special. The Mikve worm is being restored and therefore cannot be visited.

The sacred sands (Heiliger Sand) in Worms are very critical to the Jews of the world. Mabig Apple noted that scholars and rabbis are buried here, for example, Rabbi Meir von Rothenburg. There are over 2500 visual tombstones here. Some have a 1000-year-old almaximum. This makes Heiliger Sand the oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe.

In Mainz, there is only more than one line of wonderful Jewish history: a cemetery and the column remains of the old synagogue (in the foreground). In 2010, a new synagogue was built with impressive architecture. Take the type of the word “Kedushah” (sanctification), a prayer that pious Jews recite 3 times a day.

The worst runner can also be impressive. The walls are gilded and decorated with Hebrew characters to the tower. Even the banks form a letter: Lamedh, the Hebrew architect L. Manuel Herz designed the New Synagogue with shUM culture in mind. He therefore handed over his paintings to the remarkable Rabbi Gershom ben Jehuda of Mainz.

With the help of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Jewish community, the 3 cities prefer their Jewish heritage to be declared a World Heritage Site and the characteristic submitted an application directly to UNESCO. Susanne Urban of the SchUM Association believes that The SchUM culture can succeed as it meets the criteria required to “fill the gaps”. So far, there is more than one Jewish World Heritage site.

Author: Elisabeth Yorc von Wartenburg

In 1945, 51 Jewish communities were re-established in Germany. At the time of the creation of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, 15,000 Jews lived in Germany.

At the council’s opening consultation in Frankfurt on 1 July 1, 1950, the organization highlighted the participation of representatives of communities in former East Germany. However, the diversity of Jews living in the GDR, with no comparable establishments representing them, has declined. In 1nine8nine, when the Berlin Wall was about to fall, about 500 remained in five communities.

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Helping survivors continue – from

“The Central Council was not founded for what Jewish life might look like in 50, 70 or a hundred years,” says the organization’s current president, Josef Schuster. The 66-year-old doctor has been in this position for 6 years. Schuster says the organization’s board of directors imagined it when it was founded as “an organization.” His main task was to support survivors of Nazi persecution in the transit of Central and Eastern Europe through the Germabig block towards a new home, Schuster says, “and also [facilitate] emigration” for Jewish Jews on the Germabig apple they were looking to leave.

In November 1938, Jewish citizens became patients of orchestrated violence throughout Germany.

However, it wasn’t exactly like that. The Jews of the Mabig apples decided to paste where their families had lived for generations or centuries. Some even came from other parts of the world that gave them refuge during the Holocaust. This was the case with Josef Schuster. His father and grandfather survived the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration station and the primary emigrated from the Germabig block to what was then Palestine in 1954. But at the age of three, his circle of relatives returned to his old home in Franconia, the Germabig apple.

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A mindfulirectly conscious to return

“For a long time, it was very problematic, even in Jewish circles, to wake up and say that you consciously chose a life in Germany,” Schuster says. He says this only great friend began moving in the 1970s when Werner Nachmann headed the Central Council. “He was the first to bratly declare, “Yes, Jewish life exists in Germany.”

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He has faced great apple criticism for this post, especially a friend of Israel. The Mabig apple also cannot believe how daily Jewish life can also persist at the site of such persecution. Later, in the 1990s, another President of the Central Council, Ignatz Bubis, was additional in saying, “I am a Gerguy citizen of the Jewish faith.”

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The Central Council is now the identified organization that once again provides the interests of Jewish communities in Germany. A total of 10 five communities and a virtually large friend, another 100,000 Americans are members, or about a component of the estimated Jewish population in Germany. Its leaders are experts in their box and have a narrow foreign network. Schuster, for example, the eighth president of the Central Council to date, may also be vice-president of the World Jewish Congress and the European Jewish Congress.

Life is daily, but with the security of the police.

That said, threats and daily anti-Semitism are a suntil component of Jewish life in fashionable Gerguyy. Police officers stand guard day and night outdoors at the offices of the Central Council in Berlin Mitte, a design fortified in their own right. Similar photographs are also seen at various sites of Jewish activity in Gerguyy. Hating graffiti and threats is also a component of everyday life. There are attacks on American Jews. At most, the government says, the motivation for crimes tends to be far-right extremism, and the difficulty of anti-Semitism in relation to Gerguy’s migrant communities is growing.

The highest recent primary case in October 201, nine: the failed attempt by an alleged far-right extremist to devote mass killings to the synagogue in the city of Halle. Unable to enter, he killed a passerby and an employee at a nearby kebab store.

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“I don’t think the diversity of other humans with anti-Semitic resentments or brains has increased in the last 10, 20 or 30 years,” Schuster says. However, what he feels, and attributes much of the blame to right-wing populist Alterlocal for the Germabig Apple (AfD), “is that other Americans are actually more prepared to explain those brains again.”

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For a long time, the Central Council can only boast about 30,000 members in a counterattack of approximately 80 million. These paintings were higher after the end of the Cold War, when Jews from Central and Eastern Europe were able to emigrate to reunified Germany. The Central Council has continually advised existing communities to support new members in establishing themselves and integrating. Whether you’re visiting a Jewish netpainting event, whether it’s an annual meeting of young members or a retirement night in Hanukkah, you’ll probably come across a mixed, multilingual group. However, despite their differences, they are undeniably a headache.

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A voice

In the case of its 70th anniversary, Gerguy’s President Frank-Wadjust Steinmeier praised the Central Council of Jews on the Germabig block as “a meaningful voice heard and heard.” He said Jewish life had evolved rusticly in recent decades “in all its diversity.” But Steinmeier also noticed the persistent threats.

For Schuster, what is critical today is “a self-confident Jewish painting and a self-confident Jewish lifestyle.” It would bring best friends as communities to become a more integral and integral component of society. Two current Central Council projects are being implemented in this direction: Bundeswehr infantrymen will have access to Jewish chaplains in more than a month, as all legal obstacles have been removed. And in the city of Frankfurt-on-Main, design has begun for a new Jewish academy, which is expected to have influence throughout Germany.

For Gerguyy’s Jewish communities, a more critical anniversary may also be coming. In 2021, the Central Council will commemorate 1,700 years of Jewish life in what is now Gerguy’s soil. The Central Council says it seeks to establish a balanced tone between the past, the present and the future.

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