Language:
German
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
3 (1994) 68-92
Keywords:
Jewish cemeteries
;
Antisemitism History 1500-
Abstract:
Surveys the history of the desecration of Jewish cemeteries in Germany from the 18th century through the Nazi period and to the present. Notes that Jews were allotted land for the burial of their dead in distant, undesirable, and often shameful locations, for instance near the site of the gallows. Desecration of cemeteries was not always motivated by antisemitism; it could indicate simply a lack of respect, as when neighbors used them to graze cattle. Describes examples of cemetery desecration in Aschaffenburg, where in 1733 boys overturned gravestones and exposed a skull; and in the Lower Rhine region, where many cemeteries were desecrated during the antisemitic wave following the Xanten blood libel of 1891. In the 1890s the desecrations began to take on a political character, as shown by graffiti left by the vandals. During the Weimar period, cemetery desecration took on epidemic proportions. Finally, the Nazis destroyed most Jewish cemeteries altogether.
Note:
In Hebrew:
,
"ההיסטוריה הגרמנית-יהודית שירשנו" (תשסד)
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