November 2003
Look back in Anguish
Look back in Anguish
It is 65 years since the terrible events of November 9, 1938, the “Reichskristallnacht,” when there were pogroms throughout Germany. The events of that night underlined in no uncertain terms the rising tide of political and public hysteria against Jews living in Germany. For this reason November has become a focal month for the Jewish communities in Germany and this year has a special significance in Munich. On November 9, between 8 am and 10 am, at four different locations around Munich, the names of those Jews from Munich who were deported and murdered under the Nazis will be read aloud. Later there will be a symbolic handing over of the lists to the President of the Israeli Cultural Community for Munich and Upper Bavaria, Charlotte Knobloch, at Sankt-Jakobs-Platz, where the foundation stone for a new synagogue will be laid. For more information call the Jewish Community Center at (089) 202 10 74. Also, from November 15 to 25 the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der jüdischen Kultur (Society for the Promotion of Jewish Culture) will be putting on a series of events that range from musical soirees with The Bagels and Band—a duo singing traditional Yiddish songs—to an English-language documentary film on Yiddish in New York. For more information on events
call (089) 22 12 53 or visit
www.juedischekulturmuenchen.de.
