Language:
German
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Tribüne; Zeitschrift zum Verständnis des Judentums
Angaben zur Quelle:
129 (1994) 30-34
Keywords:
Jews
;
Blood accusation
;
Antisemitism
Abstract:
Sketches the history of the annual pilgrimage to Deggendorf in Bavaria commemorating a miracle in connection with a desecration of the host by Jews. This was the pretext for a massacre of Jews in all of Lower Bavaria in 1338; the real causes, according to a recent dissertation by Manfred Eder, were economic. The cult began to flourish in the 17th-18th centuries, and included an anti-Jewish liturgy and inflammatory pictures in the church. In 1793 Pastor Heinrich von Gollen, who tried to abolish the liturgy, was exiled. The pictures and antisemitic texts were removed from the church only in the 1960s; the pilgrimages were stopped as late as 1992, by a decision of Bishop Manfred Müller of Regensburg, because of Eder's dissertation. Now, an exhibit in the town museum documents the history of this "defamatory legend" and a memorial tablet in the church begs pardon of the Jews.
Note:
On a host desecration accusation against the Jews and the ensuing massacre in 1338, and the cult which developed around it in Deggendorf from the 17th century to the present.
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