the building was also destroyed during the nazi era and later rebuilt in 1981 services are held here again today. we continue with our meet a local slot where locals 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 hi fi 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. my face very charming because in one hand you have a modern cd right to the border of the mediterranean sea big buildings in the street the other hand is in closing 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 made a call me i think it means the kingdom of the lorries called me. this is the most important really just 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

recognized as a heritage place for doing this go. look at this is not the best view ahead for us from the behind gardens you can see all the ports of the far you can see the ships if you look over there the accuracy in my opinion is the best view of. this is the shrine of the bob and bob was the founder of the behind faith. my next stop in my truth through haifa using what he needs in us what he means is it's a neighborhood very colorful where jews muslims and christians live together to prove the existence exists in israel that's visited.

and. this is a very typical r.-o. place and we have here in the book club the book club is based on the stash of cash and also not that's right it's good. for our livestock 1 i would like to take you for a beautiful week in haifa come on. i called. with this nice refreshment i want you to say goodbye it was a very nice day see you next time.

and i had north again 40 minutes to mines. there are hardly any remains of the jewish past left but there is a new synagogue in architecturally exceptional building. the jewish journalist. volunteers to guide visitors through the synagogue which was inaugurated in 2000 the building has an unusual shape why is that because there's this whole thing as a word sculpture and the word is kept in charlotte i brought the architects draft with me stands for holiness it's the name of an important prayer observant jews say 3 times a day and the letters of the inspired the outer silhouette. there's another folded 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 1000 members it's an exciting testament to the old switch shows that mines once had a great jewish tradition. of course. yes there's ceramic tiles are also quite interesting they changed 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 at night they turn black i was very important to the architect as he wanted to use it to express the liveliness of judaism. now we go into the synagogue. these are the keepers or camps the people always go tom and they go into the center . while praying in everyday life. why do we where one. wants it is

a mark of humility towards the north. one simply cannot go back headed. as a mark of reverence towards the lot 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 that meets the hebrew out. in front are the torah scrolls with the 5 books of moses. you know these that you read the torah with the ritual pointer the yacht which is hebrew for hand and it's very important because the iraqis vegetable based so in summer if you write about a 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 the line. and. of course there is more to discover here in the synagogue so here's a brief overview of what you should see in mind. 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 lives. 80 percent of the inner city was completely destroyed during world war 2 however many of the town. and houses built for mine says 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 a large paper mush a heads or a fixture of mind says carnival during the rose monday parade they want to provide some comic relief. minds his most famous son is johana scootin bag the inventor of the movable type printing press. it's 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.

say 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 wine culture which dates back to roman times. and the old town from the region have revived the minds tradition the wine tavern. along with the wine tasting the ventnor can also teach you some callet need idioms . like a good guess and should also be served at good wine. back in the new synagogue. there are many jewish traces in the cities are the tourist attractions or are they a place. that are filled with jewish life. very important for the world heritage

application as well it's a very important and decisive factor that jewish life has returned to these places and luckily jewish life is evident inch by our warm sun mines thanks to immigration from the former soviet union. vom why do synagogues in germany actually have police protection. this applies to all synagogues in germany just 100000 years in germany are registered in jewish communities dangers have increased due to the radicalization in the islamist scene and in secular society think about the terror attack in berlin once in paris and. then there's also the right wing extremists could say by the attack and of a assassination of a christian politician has who was murdered by a right wing radical political different i thought a martyr toward these what extent are hostilities part of your everyday life

luckily i've had a 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 it. needs a reality that people are no longer so free to openly practice there today as. many rabbis and the central council are jews in germany advise people not to wear capers in public. because of the bad experiences many jews have had. thus 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 and see you next on.

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we can get in touch but it's not just me on a little subtle suffering a screenwriter and we went on a journey to find ways out of the movement if you want in a cold one click to a priest i would hope just change stuff doesn't exist listen to our podcast on the green thumbs. it's for lungs i'm good the cliches are starting to get on my nerves. i think it's wonderful little this jewishness whether you're a strict rules that don't so dainty even know when russia china all of it's here in germany. and. i decided to stay with this complexity i want them now and then. superior choice about she will.

be. in. the. 1700 years of. documented jewish history in germany in this commemorative year we look to the past present and future. a visit to 4 different cities in search of 4 different perspectives on jewish identity. and i'm going to. be. your. judaism is a multi-faceted religion in her installation misuzu been the gathering filmmaker

jojo where you've seen me to portray a vivid and diverse picture of german jews very often people have a very. strange image of jews here in germany sometimes some people think they're all very smart are all very rich very. and like in any other society there is a big range of. people and it was important for me here in the exhibition to show. this variety. was born and raised in the television the holocaust was part of her family's history grandmother's family was almost completely wiped out where you vini has lived in berlin for 15 years she's among the 20 to 30000 israelis who have moved to the german capital. in their there is something very fascinating about berlin because on one hand it's very. contemporary and on the

other hand it's very haunted and you can you know there are really ghosts everywhere when ray eugene moved to germany her parents were horrified for them it was unthinkable to move to the land of the perpetrators but for her it was liberating. somehow being in a berlin opened up something for me and suddenly i realized that this is you know this trauma i can deal much better i'm able to deal with it and there was something very liberating about allowing myself to change the perspective to meet the people i wasn't allowed to me to hear stories. i wasn't supposed to hear and kind of ask myself how much can i enlarge or broaden my perspective. partner and she dealt with that trauma by exploring the previously unknown and to boo subject of her family's history. in her 1st film she follows the trail of a great uncle who story dead. her great uncle never returned up to being

deported to book involves a concentration camp through her research yale discovered that her uncle had actually started a new life on enemy land in east germany with a german woman and a german name. it became much easier for me to think about these things when i realize it's not my job to forgive. the ghost of the past put to rest the director's focus is now turned to her birthplace of israel you know her latest film. trace her own generation of israelis. i'm finally ready to deal with this. which is in a way in my biography much more complex for many young israelis living in

berlin means creating a free and more experimental space for themselves to explore jewish identity. then you know i should like to break with conventions he stressed his modeling of his city heart and a talent for a shoulder he challenges to booze in his photography his way of dealing with his background as an ultra orthodox jew. he sure has a lot of territories. only it was you know way kind of arm when i was in my life so. i had. myself inside of there. so in a way they are all safe portrayed. he photographs friends and family members creating provocative images in which when it's meets religion.

and then to work from home. then you know i grew up in an ultra orthodox suburb of tel aviv in a deeply religious household with 10 siblings but he wanted to become an artist and break free from this insular world. there are kind of save me and i think the comment was for me. way to frame my life again. in a way that i can now have a kind of roots of my roots with all the books work that i was born to i grew up getting to become in my daily life today ringback. he also uses religion to

explore his homosexuality playing with gay is that in some photos the tefilin prayer belt becomes a bondage belt in berlin the past has caught up with binyamin because he he live side by side with the 3rd generation of perpetrators and increasingly also the descendants of the victims with german and jewish friends he performs a kind of artistic exorcism of evil nazi symbolism. ok we're going to see in both it was. when i came to germany. to see to see the of the evil. but i found peace. but he also feels that anti-semitism is on the rise here. some of his friends witnessed the attack on the synagogue in holland that took place on the jewish holiday of young people who are in october 29th taint the

perpetrator didn't manage to break through the synagogue door but he did kill 2 passes by binyamin advice took a series of portraits of the survivors which he called. after. they didn't have to deal with fear to really be very trust. in germany. and that's of course it's natural for. the synagogue and hala in february 2021 and it's courtyard is the door that saved the lives of so many on yom kapoor in 2019. today it's a memorial the names of the 2 people killed in the far right anti-semitic attack bear silent witness. diana mattoo to listen hala and has jewish roots at

the time of the attack she was an oxford researching yiddish music she was deeply shaken by the shooting as. i was always one of those who said it's really important that the jewish community be welcoming. and this transparent is possible . to had but time disabuse me of that nation's business but it. for many years the city of hama paid little heed to its jewish history which dates back close to a millennium in communist east germany it was a taboo topic. which is why diana believes it's more important than ever to remember this heritage. in the wall of this protestant community center she's discovered a jewish gravestone from the middle ages. the jewish mediæval cemetery was already dissolved in the 16th century. very possible

that the stunning was found somewhere in the rubble. during construction and then incorporated. we can see that there's a name engraved here. and behind it stands back and that's when she was growing up where to tread all the jewish classics on her parents' bookshelves she studied western the dialect originally spoken by jews in western europe and delved into their songs developing a passion for this music. which had a lot of emphasis in yet it's always fascinated me that these weren't just the texts and the music of the synagogue of the hebrew liturgy but that these were the songs that everybody knew and everybody sang at. he was just saying. these last cultural gems were widely

popular in their time and are now being rediscovered. through her music and research diana matured has become an expert on judaism in holland she regularly gives guided tours such as this one of the historical jewish cemetery it's a witness to hollis jewish history that's just to this is the oldest gravestone in the cemetery as you can see him all say the number one engraved very large so that dates it to the end of the 17th century was the time when the jews were allowed back into holland and resettled here so good lesson and see here to n.z. to. this is not so much a sign of tolerance but more of the need for people especially those with deep pockets to rebuild the region in the wake of war and pestilence. jewish history and a long and turbulent history that culminated in the holocaust the memorial to the

destruction of jewish culture under the nazis was only erected in the late 1980 s. in communist east germany's final decade. diana mattoo welcomes the fact that hollis jewish community despite the renewed attack in 2019 has become more open and that jewish life here no longer belongs only to the past. preserving the pasta and keeping its memory alive the sensual tasco of every jewish museum. frankfurt is home to germany's oldest one last fall it reopened after a 5 year reconstruction phase. and extension has been added the new building serves as the entrance for visitors. while the new permanent exhibition is housed in rothschild pelé once home to the

famous jewish banking family whose economic and social significance is visually documented here. director miriam benson was convinced today a jewish museum must take a much broader view of the notion of remembrance the old museum concepts are no longer timely. they were reminders of german jewish life before the shoah you know and these symbols of remembrance led to museums being kinds of memorials and they presented jews more as dead people and jewish culture is a relic of the past and forgotten and. the greetings from frankfurt's jewish residents right at the start of the exhibition send a clear message jewish culture is alive and well here and its diverse. well known faces and personalities tell us about it.

cricket is the treasure and. for sure. i think this exhibition lives from that lives from the question who does history belong to. where of the opinion history belongs to those who lived through it and those who tell it and here we provide them with a space in which to tell it. and the museum manages to do that in a moving way visually to. how. high. the museum relates the darkest chapter in jewish history the shoah featuring images from german jewish expressionist painter.

frank ritz best known jewish resident is undoubtedly and frank the young girl whose diary was published posthumously in 1947 it's still a bestseller and often taught in schools. at the end frank. educational center young people and school classes can visit a learning lab and find out more about her life in doing so they discover what connects the girl who died at 15 in the bag and bells in concentration camp to young people currently suffering from discrimination and persecution here you remember and says always linked to events that young people are witnesses to today . asked my doctor cannot and does not recognizing what hurts other staff does that requires us to listen to

those affected identify the issues and then the 3rd step and see how we can act differently. this includes looking beyond traditional stereotypes and changing the way we view others. visitors who have questions about judaism or jewish traditions can ask the rabbi right at the museum if. you. feel you. put the. museum director miriam benson presents visitors with a multimedia exhibition which lets them explore jewish life with all their senses. let's get on diesel for it's about transmitting jewish history and culture and i'm moving toward us that's what we're trying to do here. 2021 marks 1700 years of jewish life in germany franklin looks back on close to

900 years of jewish heritage it's a history full of triumph and tragedy as it is in every other german city. including munich. munich is filled with majestic squares and baroque churches it's also home to the jewish center which opened in 2006. munich's jewish community is the 2nd largest in germany that's because of the your arrival of jewish people from former territories of the soviet union who following its break up were allowed to settle in germany. writer lino gorelick moved here with her family in 1902 it was only after immigrating that their then 11 year old was confronted with jewish traditions for the 1st time. we asked my idea. that i learned all these things that belong to jewish general

knowledge like it's not kosher to. jewish identity was really charged but at school not so much in a negative prejudice way rather people thought it was interesting. that i had put it on decide and as it were the way you would put on a shirt or jacket i'm told on the county. after the soviet union dissolved jews were driven to leave by a rise in anti semitic incidents in economically hard hit russia although only in a garlic wasn't aware of such events as a child they faced bureaucratic hurdles in moving to germany yet heading there of all places proved a difficult decision for linda garlics family in search of a better life they ventured from st petersburg to bavaria where the subject of her heritage became a central theme for her tribe the identity huge international one cup so i was the

only jew in my school and some teachers with thrilled to have a jewish girl explain jewish holidays in a catholic religion class. and i was pretty confused to have the situation turned around. and for my heritage to be a positive yes positive origins and identity are also recurrent themes in lena garlics books she published a debut novel at age 23. minor vice and my white knights is a light hearted witty story about a young russian jewish girl who immigrates to germany with her family and how they adjust to the new life. talk site in jerusalem waiting in jerusalem strikes a similar tone she deliberately avoided sounding melancholy or bleak in her latest novel varies in or who we are coming out in spring in germany garlic returns to the subject of her family but this time the story has

a more hard edged ring to it in it she addresses the question of identity so how does she see herself today. which. is kind of german russian and jewish i don't need to know exactly what percentage i am of each one and there are days i feel more like one or another and then there are a lot of days when the question doesn't even matter to me it. lena gorelick is not alone today there are many prominent jewish authors who like garlic immigrated from russia as children many of the novels can be found here in rochelle salamanders bookshop. amanda opened a jewish bookstore over nearly 40 years ago in munich it was the 1st of its kind since the beginning of nazi rule a milestone for the city. were shown cell amanda's family comes from eastern europe and most were murdered in the holocaust she

herself was born in a camp for displaced persons where survivors waited to immigrate to israel or the u.s. but the selamat is chose to stay in germany and move to munich. how did the bookshop come about. i thought the story which you did i was just fascinated by the german jewish cultural heritage and all its written works for defining ideas of what i wanted to take all these books that had been banned and tracked down burned and destroyed. and help them find a home again hi martin today it's the victim's grandchildren and great grandchildren who are reexamining history and authors like lena gorelick who see the past from new perspectives. the 2nd about so how did this generation has not had to have the same confrontation we had with the children of the perpetrators and

. coming to terms with the past is no longer present in contemporary literature to the same extent for him. still the traces of this horrifying chapter in german history can still be seen across munich along with memorials to the victims the past costs a long shadow. become to get back to you to mines and holes and you can't wish away history in this city it's in every house in every single family and it was very important to me that when it came to my children jewishness is much more in just this part of history. alexander that man the son of russian jewish immigrants is a typical example of the new jewish generation cosmopolitan and confident. we meet up with him in berlin where he's just finished his acting studies i mean. i actually had no idea that i was jewish because it was never discussed in our family

religion was no big deal i didn't relate to being jewish or in fact for me jew was a swear word that was used around me and i even used it myself in elementary school and high school but in that man's acting debut anti-semitism is a central theme. justin. and yes. alexander wants to move away from what he sees as a culture of victimhood and remembrance that ignores present day issues. coercively i just don't feel that i can accept the situation any more anti semitism is on the rise it's real and it's happening here. as

a jew in germany i just can't say everything's cool and i feel good with the situation at the moment it was only as a teenager in munich that that man discovered his jewishness and became active in the community it was also during this time that he became a star member of the local youth theatre in the high tide like to see people take a clear position that leads to action. today being jewish is just part of the actor's identity. the noya synagogue in iran back. was really concentrated in 1908 and now serves as the hub of berlin's a lively jewish community. rabbi their bag is responsible for this revival she is one of 9 female rabbis in germany personal god stands for diversity tolerance and coexistence. we like to cool ourselves l g b t i q straight inclusive list does not mean that we define ourselves as such or that this is part of a queer friendly trend it is completely natural for us and has been for

a long time. either back studied jewish theology and converted to judaism 30 years ago she was fascinated by religion which allows leeway in matters of faith and lifestyle choices. judaism is always evolving and questioning itself how does what our ancestors handed down to us fit modern times in order to get what values do we adapt and where do we draw the line and keep certain values the way they have always been like this for. it is a balancing act between the past and the future. alexander van man wants to take his career to the next level so he's leaving berlin for his 1st acting and gauge mint at the renowned theater real house both from for jews living in germany he hopes above all this one i wish that people wouldn't see is weirdos or aliens or give a special treatment after all there's not just one way of being jewish and it's actually

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