The Schwabach Sukkah – Teaser
A sneak peek at the Jewish Museum of Franconia in Schwabach: Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles
You can watch the full video and much more at our permanent exhibition :)
(buchstabenschubser, Potsdam)
Jewish Traces in Franconia
Since the end of the 30 Years War Jewish communities in Franconia could exist - with exceptions - in relatively peace. The 17th and 18th Centuries saw a spread and blooming of rural Jewish Communities with all characteristics of Jewish life: Beadhouses, Synagogues, Talmud Schools, Kosher Butchers, Jewish Graveyards and Tahara Houses. The Age of Enlightment, the reforms of Bavarian Minister Count Montgelas and later the German Union under Bismarck brought the Franconian Jews gradually equality. At the end of the 19th Century there was hardly a city without a Jewish community. They thanked their homeland for their equality in sacrificing their own youth on the battlefields of World War One with the other Germans. The long and fruitful history of Franconia's Jews ended in the Third Reich with it's racial laws, deprivation of rights, pogroms and mass-extermination. Those who weren't killed imigrated to the Americas or Palestine. Only a few returned to build up and democratisize a ruined country.
Now, almost 70 years after World War Two and the Shoa, urban Jewish Communities recovered, also with Jewish imigrants from former USSR, while only graveyards and secularized buildings remained of the rural ones.
I had to select what pictures and places to use for this video since there is an unbelieveable abundance of Jewish places and traces. It is enough material for two or three videos about Jews in Franconia.
Those who are interested in further informations about this subject can klick on the link below which was my main source. It is part English and part German.
Other sources were the books Judenfrei by Jim G. Tobias and Juden in Nürnberg by Liane Zettl.
Music: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra E-Minor Op. 64, first movement by
Felix Mendelssohn
Maestro: Leonard Bernstein
and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
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Nuremberg (; German: Nürnberg; pronounced [ˈnʏɐ̯nbɛɐ̯k] (listen); Nuremberg dialect: Närmberch; East Franconian: Närrnberch or Nämberch) is the second-largest city of the German federal state of Bavaria after its capital of Munich, and its 511,628 (2016) inhabitants make it the 14th largest city of Germany. On the Pegnitz River (from its confluence with the Rednitz in Fürth onwards: Regnitz, a tributary of the River Main) and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it lies in the Bavarian administrative region of Middle Franconia, and is the largest city and the unofficial capital of Franconia. Nuremberg forms a continuous conurbation with the neighbouring cities of Fürth, Erlangen and Schwabach with a total population of 787,976 (2016), while the larger Nuremberg Metropolitan Region has approximately 3.5 million inhabitants. The city lies about 170 kilometres (110 mi) north of Munich. It is the largest city in the East Franconian dialect area (colloquially: Franconian; German: Fränkisch).
There are many institutions of higher education in the city, most notably the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), with 39,780 students (2017) Bavaria's third and Germany's 11th largest university with campuses in Erlangen and Nuremberg and a university hospital in Erlangen (Universitätsklinikum Erlangen); Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm; and Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg. Nuremberg Airport (Flughafen Nürnberg „Albrecht Dürer“) is the second-busiest airport of Bavaria after Munich Airport, and the tenth-busiest airport of Germany.
Staatstheater Nürnberg is one of the five Bavarian state theatres, showing operas, operettas, musicals, and ballets (main venue: Nuremberg Opera House), plays (main venue: Schauspielhaus Nürnberg), as well as concerts (main venue: Meistersingerhalle). Its orchestra, Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, is Bavaria's second-largest opera orchestra after the Bavarian State Opera's Bavarian State Orchestra in Munich. Nuremberg is the birthplace of Albrecht Dürer and Johann Pachelbel (Canon in D).