Language:
German
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Allmende
Angaben zur Quelle:
36-37 (1993) 30-41
Keywords:
Jews History 1945-
;
Jews
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Synagogues
;
Holocaust survivors
;
Baden-Württemberg (Germany)
Abstract:
Villages in Baden-Württemberg where there had been large Jewish communities did not welcome the few Jewish survivors who returned after the war. Their houses and property had been taken over by others. Synagogues that survived the "Kristallnacht" pogrom were often destroyed after the war or diverted to profane uses. Suggests that the latter practice expresses an ambivalence: on the one hand, to suppress memory of the former Jewish presence; on the other, to keep it alive by the daily use of the buildings. Their restoration as memorials, usually an initiative forced on the reluctant villagers by outsiders, turns memory into lifeless stone; still, this is the only way to preserve it for coming generations.
Note:
Another version appeared as "Erinnerungen an die Dorfjuden heute" in "Jüdisches Leben auf dem Lande" (1997) 399-411. Appeared also in "Alemannisches Judentum; Spuren einer verlorenen Kultur" (2001).
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