Speaker: Dr. Anne Bezzel, education officer at the Erfurt Augustinian Monastery, author
Time: Friday, 22.11.2024, 15:00 h
Place: TU Ilmenau, Faradaybau, Weimarer Straße 32
Admission: 5 euros
In 2021, Thuringia celebrated the 750th anniversary of "Jewish Life in Thuringia". The commemorative year was intended to express the great enrichment that Erfurt owes to the coexistence of Jews and Christians over 700 years. At the same time, the anniversary was also a challenge to come to terms with the dark chapters of anti-Judaism and the history of persecution and exclusion. The city of Erfurt in the middle of the 14th century is a good example of this. The present-day capital of Thuringia was home to a large Jewish community in the Middle Ages. On a single day in March 1349, this vibrant everyday life was wiped out and over 900 Erfurt citizens of the Jewish faith were murdered.
In her lecture at the TU Ilmenau Citizens’ Campus , Dr. Anne Bezzel, author and Protestant theologian and educational advisor at the Augustinian monastery in Erfurt, will focus on the everyday life of the Jewish community before the catastrophe of the pogrom: What role did marriage and family, education, professions and social cohesion play in the Jewish community in medieval Erfurt’ Anne Bezzel also sheds light on the pogrom itself, its background and course, as well as the stereotypical accusations to which Jews were repeatedly subjected in the Middle Ages. Through her knowledge of the past, she also aims to provide orientation for overcoming the challenges of the present.
Ursula Nirsberger
TU Ilmenau Citizens’ Campus+ 49 3677 69 4794
buergercampus@tu-ilmenau.de
