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Immersion – Mikvahs in Fürth

Sunday 06.03. / 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Meeting Place: Jewish Museum Franconia
€ 6,- / 4,- discounted / Visit to the permanent exhibition included
Registration until Friday, 3 pm: besucherservice(at)juedisches-museum.org

Little visible to the outside world, mikvaot were and are still important „heart pieces“ of Jewish communities. This is also the case in Fürth. In Fjorda, the large Jewish community in southern Germany, there were once numerous, structurally impressive mikvahs, built in vaulted cellars of the community or integrated into private homes.They were accessible to all jewish people and were integral part of religious life. Some of these mikvahs are still preserved today, for example at Königstr. 89, today’s museum building.

What is this ritual all about? How was it in the past and how is it today? What is hidden, what is visible today? Join us in the old town of Fürth where mikvahs were actively used in the past.

Organiser: Jewish Museum Franconia

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History of the Jews in Fürth – a home for centuries

Sunday, 06.03. / 2 – 3:30 p.m., / Meeting place: Synagogue Memorial in the Geleitsgasse

For centuries Fürth´s Jewish community was the most important in all of southern Germany. To this day the numerous former Jewish houses with their ritual facilities exist as relics that survived the Nazis` mania for destruction.

The old Israelite Cemetery in Fürth – Oasis of Time and rocky archive

Sunday, 13.03. / 2 – 3:30 p.m. / Meeting place: Entrance Old Jewish Cemetery

The tour leads through an otherwise inaccessible spacious burial ground where time seems to stand still. Jewish funeral and mourning rituals are just as much the focus as important personalities buried here and the over 400 year old history of the community.

Gift! Jewish benefactors in Fürth

Saturday, 05.03. / 11 – 12:30 p.m. / Meeting place: Berolzheimerianum (Comödie Fürth)

Come with us on a search for a trace: there are many Jewish foundations in Fürth that arose from the religious commandment of charity and have contributed significantly to the development of the city decades.

What the stones testify

Sunday, 06.03. / 2 – 3:30 p.m. / Meeting place: Entrance old Jewish Cemetery

Be impressed by the dignified atmosphere at the old Jewish Cemetery in Fürth. The old gravestones reveal much about the long and eventful history of the Jewish community in Fürth.

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Jewish life – then and now

Sunday, 13.03. / 11 – 12:30 a.m. / Meeting place: Entrance old Jewish Cemetery

In the late Middle Ages, Fürth became the religious centre of Jewish life in southern Germany. In the heyday of Jewish culture in the 18th century there were several synagogues, prayer rooms, religious learning centers and a hospital of it's own.

Streets and alleys in Fürth

Saturday 05.03. / 2 – 3:30 p.m. / Meeting place: Jewish Museum Franconia

On a stroll through Fürth, we lay a thread through the eventful Jewish city history, guided by street names.

Home Fjorda – The former schoolyard

Saturday, 12.03. / 2 – 3:30 p.m. / Meeting place: Jewish Museum Franconia

In November 1938, the square where four important synagogues stood in Fürth and which once constituted the centre of intellectual Jewish life was set on fire and completely destroyed. What was the former schoolyard and what does memory of this place mean today?

Teaching and Learning – Synagogues and Talmud Schools in Fürth

Sunday, 13.03. / 2 – 3:30 p.m. / Meeting place: Jewish Museum Franconia

Especially the synagogues which were located not far from todays Königstraße, were important places assembly, prayer and learning together. What is visible today and what do we know about it?

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