but the revolutionary. guards and. pieces of history. songs like that don't go away they stay with us for all time. starts february 7th. i am in the southwest of germany in spite of. the city of 50000 inhabitants is located on the rhine and especially known for this building.

spire cathedral the city's main landmark 1000 years old and unesco world heritage site. christianity has sent great monuments in the city but judaism has also left its mark here in the middle ages was one of the most important jewish settlements in central europe along with mines and warms the 3 cities were even called jerusalem on the rhine. spire warms and minds are considered the cradle of european judaism jewish life has shaped these 3 cities for more than 900 years and i want to know what remains of it so today's show is not just the city trip but also a journey through jewish history. in our p. mail we also jet over the ski slopes in.

we take a tour of the port city of haifa in israel. and take a closer look at mine. in the old town. in these 2 streets in new gaza and plan that comes from gaza a jewish reserve venture area was created 1000 years ago because jews were only allowed to settle here the houses were built particularly narrow and high in order to offer as much space as possible. the speed of museum is also located here in the you wouldn't have the jewish courtyard. in the middle ages buyout was called in hebrew which is how the museum got its name. was called. mines. for this reason these 3

cities are called shoot communities. stands for peter for what minds are and for. the term is like a law it is familiar to jews all over the world. the importance of becomes clear when you go outside the museum here you can see the remains of the mediæval synagogue it dates back to 1104. the. next it was the so-called phone should the synagogue for the women. in general women and men sit apart and synagogues well in this bench here used to be for the women they were able to follow the service by at least listening.

this mix here is particularly noteworthy a ritual bath from the 12th century. the water basin is 10 meters below the surface. but let's take a look at the past the middle ages that's where the 3 cities became pretty famous. shams history begins in mines one of the oldest cities in germany the ancient romans lived here and it's likely that jews lived among them. later in the middle ages minds became a center of jewish learning and religious life. in the 10th century merchant and scholar moses clone amisse left his home city of lucca in italy and came to mind. he helped to usher in a new era here the city's german rudest hope the jews would help to modernize minds

since the jewish merchants were well connected well educated and business savvy. little one of his family produced many famous rabbis and mines developed into a century of jewish scholarship but above all it was rabbi i guess from ben yehuda who really put mines on the map. he drew students from across europe. during his tenure gash them introduced modern laws forbidding bigamy and making it a sin to open and read other people's mail. he also decreed that a woman had to agree before her husband could divorce her. after mines vaughn's became another center of jewish learning on the rhine. vom synagogue this study hall and share the service were mine is a famous rabbi rushy as does this modern sculpture in the. in

a courtyard rushy studied here in the 11th century. in the city of spy a bishop who settled to use near the city's famous cathedral around the year 1048 he said he did it to increase the place a standing a 1000 fold. along with mines and forms spire became the 3rd important center of jewish culture on the rhine but the jews peaceful existence here was short lived time and again they were pub grams and during the nazi era the jewish community was completely obliterated him. utan spies of these atrocities jewish life has returned to spying vaughn's and minds. in acknowledgement of their important jewish past the 3 sham cities are now seeking to be listed as a unesco world heritage site they spend years preparing their application which was a visit in january 2020.

i left and i'm on my way towards the only drive 40 minutes north along the right. the symbol of the city is like inspire and also minds the huge inferior cathedral. it was built in the 12 century. forms it's not only known for its cathedral and its jewish past but also as the setting for the famous novel in legend. in one's numerous buildings are an innocent of the german heroic saga which deals with hate love power and murder a dragon is also there. and this statue shows the villain haagen from try. you know

. you have thrown the treasure into the wrong. well we'll leave worms for a moment because we've received another viewer's video as you know you can send us your impressions of your travels and we show here on check this time the video is from luis. and he went skiing in the austrian alps so that's our weekly b. mail. cut. cut. cut. cut cut. cut you told. colin.

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director of the show. which looks after the preservation and communication of the jewish history of buying up warms and minds men must wear headgear in the cemetery . how old is the cemetery i cannot tell most a 1000 years old it dates from around 1030 or 1040 the same time as the jewish community settled here so it's a really old jewish cemetery so you can also see that from looking at the stones it's a sea of stones. you bow to your are of course particularly eye catching his national you're close to there not only right at the entrance of the cemetery but also covered with notes and with stones so that you can see this is a living memorial. the reason tells me is that a famous rabbi from work is buried here. i thought it was once the tradition of placing stones on tombstones when that if you look around you can see stones lying

everywhere on individual graves all tombstones and the important thing is simply that you honor the memory of that person you don't have to know them is come so this whole area contains about $2500.00 visible gravestones from many many centuries if we briefly start here and look at the small green island you will see the 2 oldest gravestones we know of. 1000 years old holding their 1000 years old innocent one as an unknown young man and the other on the left is the yakov probably a ton of student we don't know for sure in all the international visitors here. 40 to 80000 visitors a year and very many people visit the cemetery for them this is an important place for stablish in the sense of where cation finding their own family history consulting scholars but it's just an incredible amount happening here for jews.

on our way to the synagogue we passed many stumbling blocks. so if you start i have seen stones like this year in many other cities what is this all about this is close to this is the largest essential ised holocaust memorial in existence there are tens of thousands of stones all over europe this was inspired by an artist from cologne who in the 1980 s. and ninety's i asked how can you actually best memorialize someone and the best thing is actually to stop as you did and ask what is this disturbance in the ground that's something different and there are names on it and numbers and places and suddenly you realize that there are stories behind these stones. they tell of the victims of the nazi regime and are embedded in the ground in front of their former homes during this time the jews from here were harassed deported and murdered as many parts of europe. we also find stumbling blocks in the you wouldn't guess the course of history today is the same as it was in the 12th century and in the center

that she sure the warm synagogue. now the borders of the building may not be large but it has an incredible history it dates back to the 11th century was burned down several times in the wars the crusades attacked again and again and the jews informs always said we will rebuild it we belong here and we want to stay here this is testimony to an extraordinary resilience and a desire to be respected and. the building was also destroyed during the nazi era and later rebuild in 1981 services are held here again today. we continue with our media local slot or local to show us around their hometowns and this time we were invited to the port city of haifa is located in israel the only country in the world where the majority of the inhabitants are jews.

hi welcome to high 5 my name is through a star and i'm very happy to show you my hometown one of the most beautiful theaters in israel let's see if. i slice very charming because in one hand you have a modern cd right to the border of the mediterranean sea big buildings in the street but in the other hand is a true place where you find people will actually be enjoying the atmosphere like me . welcome to the german colony this place was stylish in 869 by german templars the german templars was a group of religious people they came from sort of germany and you could still find a lot of historical places of the german heritage here in haifa.

this is one of the german houses there just and i bought spoilage i don't know what it says but i know that it became a post office. they may call me i think it means the kingdom of the lorries called me. this is the most important religious interest place here in haifa it's called the baha'i gardens the behind gardens are the center of the behind faith and it was very nice of the heritage place for the units go. look at this is not the best view. from the behind gardens you can see all the ports of the file you can see the sheets if you look over there the accuracy in my opinion is the best view of face on. this issue. i'm of the bob and bob was the

founder of the behind faith. my next stop in my tour through haifa is in one of these nights one of the reasons it's a neighborhood very colorful where jews muslims and christians live together to prove the existence existing in israel that's visited. this is a very typical r.-o. place and we have here in the book club the book club is based on the stash cashel and also not that's right it's good.

for our love stuff i would like to take you for a beautiful weekend come on. i called up. with this nice refreshment i want you to say goodbye it was a very nice day see you next time in faith. and i had north again 40 minutes 2 minds. there are hardly any remains of the jewish past left but there is a new synagogue in architecturally exceptional building. the jewish journalist and the us back volunteers to guide visitors through the synagogue which was inaugurated in 2010 this. building has an unusual shape why is

that because. this whole thing was the word sculpture and the word is cattle shark i brought the architect's draft with me stands for holiness it's the name of an important observant jews say 3 times a day and the letters that they care to show are inspired the outer silhouette. unfolded like that fall down like that right around the corner. and here's another special thing. the remains of the pillars of the old synagogue stood here until 938 it was one of 3 inner cities synagogues this one here was the liberal main synagogue which had close to a 1000 members it's an exciting testament to the old switch shows that mines once had a great jewish tradition. the ceramic tiles are also quite interesting they change color when exposed to lots of

light today it's unfortunately dollars out then all of these tiles a light green now in winter they're more dark green at night they turn black i was very important to the architect as he wanted to use it to express the line cleanest of judaism. now we go into the synagogue. these are the keepers or camps that people always go tom when they go into the synagogue or while praying in everyday life. why do we were one. it is a mark of humility towards the law. simply cannot go bareheaded. as a mark of reverence towards the lord to. this place of worship is impressive the gold colored walls are decorated all over with hebrew characters they reach up to the top of the tower. even the benches form

a letter like mit the hebrew out. in front are the torah scrolls with the 5 books of moses. you know when you read the torah with the ritual point to the yacht which is hebrew for hand and it's very important because the ink is vegetable based so in summer if you run out of sweaty finger over the torah scroll that would smudge the writing and it's also a sign of respect to god not to point a finger directly at me and instead you use the ritual pointer to travel along that line. and. of course there is more to discover here in the new synagogue so here's a brief overview of what you should.

mine says the capital of the state of rhineland. some 220000 people live here. the best place to start your tour is mine's cathedral also known as st martin's cathedral it's over 1000 years old but the area around it is still buzzing with life. 80 percent of the inner city was completely destroyed during world war 2 however many of the town houses built for mines as wealthy merchants were later rebuilt. mines is one of the german cities that celebrates carnival in a big way. a colorful festival is a tradition that dates back to the 16th century there's even an entire museum devoted to it large paper mush a heads or a picture of mine says carnival during the rose monday parade there want to provide some comic relief. mines his most famous son is your highness good and bad. the

inventor of the movable type printing press. it sparked a media revolution in the 15th century. mind says gutenberg museum also owns 2 of the $49.00 original gutenberg bibles still in existence. in the demonstration workshop visitors can witness firsthand how gutenberg sped up the printing process through the use of movable type printing presses. so let's pull this out. if it's turned out wonderfully. to better understand the mind's way of life you need to get to know it's a wine culture which dates back to roman times. in the old town from the region have revived the minds tradition the wine tavern.

along with the wine tasting the bit there can also teach you some poll that made idioms. like. get it also be served good wine. back in the new synagogue. there are many jewish traces in this room cities are the tourist attractions or are the places that are filled with jewish life. very important for the world heritage application as well it's a very important and decisive factor the jewish life has returned to these places and luckily jewish life is evident in she warms and mines thanks to immigration from the former soviet union. vollmer why do synagogues in germany actually have police protection. this applies to all synagogues in germany just a 100 times. jews in germany are registered in jewish communities of heart dangers

have increased due to the radicalization in the islamist scene and in a secular society think about the terror attack in berlin once in paris and. then there's also the right wing extremists say by the attack and the assassination of a christian politician in has who was murdered by a right wing radical political. modder toward the to what extent are hostilities part of your everyday life luckily i have had few negative experiences but i know of community members and school children who've had some not so nice ones. of course the desecration of jewish cemeteries is also a reality for the jewish community as are the terrible threatening emails that many communities receive but. it's a reality that people are no longer so free to openly practice their today as.

many rabbis and the central council are jews in germany advise people not to wear in public. because of the bad experiences many jews have had. that's the gist of what you hope for the future also for the shoe city. i would hope that jewish life simply becomes a given becomes normal and for the cities i wish that they'd regain the significance they once had for judaism here and around the world as well as the religious and spiritual importance. of simply that they receive recognition and people see that they can be proud of this piece of german jewish history. yes definitely these are unique 3 wonderful places with a jewish history that goes back hundreds of years and that is still visible today

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