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04_JUD_DOK Dokumentation Landjudenschaft im Alten Schulhaus Lorsch Dreihundert Jahre waren Landjuden ein lebendiger Teil bäuerlicher Gesellschaften, vor allem in Süddeutschland. In ihrer soziokulturellen Struktur unterschieden sie sich deutlich von den
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TF–25 „I want to keep my head up,“ Ruth’s last letter. Ruth Karola Kahn was born in Lorsch on Sept. 16, 1923, the oldest of four daughters of Karl Kahn,
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TF–24 Deportation trains to Piaski (Lublin), Theresienstadt and Auschwitz: Lorsch Jews The Hessian transports to the extermination camps took place on 25.3.1942 (1000 persons) to Piaski in Poland, and on
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TF–23 Escape from Germany The first to leave were the young adults with an education. They had prospects of work, especially in the United States. However, visas were subject to
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TF–22 Stigmatization, Deprivation of Rights, Robbery In August 1933, Die Stimme, a Jewish newspaper from Vienna, reported with a slightly amused undertone about the “chutzpah” of Siegbert Mann from Lorsch,
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TF–21 „May God grant victory to the all too righteous German cause.“ Lorsch Jews in the First World War On September 29, 1914, the merchant Abraham Abraham sent a package
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TF–20 From Suit Cloth to Goatskin: Offers from Jewish Merchants The rural Jews were slow to free themselves from the old occupational restrictions. They remained faithful to the division of
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TF–19 The Starkenburg Chevra Kadisha and the Jewish Union Cemetery in Alsbach The Electoral Mainzian Oberamt Starkenburg was an exclave. The nearest Jewish cemetery was in Alsbach, on Hessian-Darmstadt territory.
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TF–18 Simon Lorch: builder of the synagogue In the second half of the 19th century the Lorchs took over the predominance among the Lorsch Jewish families from the Mainzers, many
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TF–17 7 generations – 250 years: the Mainzer family Naftali ben Salomo, called Hirz Menz, came to Lorsch at the end of the 17th century, probably from Mainz. With his
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TF–16 The Synagogicum of the Land Jews in Kurmainz The Church State of Mainz was a fractured territory around monasteries and convents acquired in the medieval period with the centers
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TF–15 From Nathan the Wise to the Imperial Constitution. The long road to equality. “Grandfather attended a performance of Lessing’s ‘Nathan the Wise’ in 1855. This work, in which such