As part of the exhibition "Inventories: The Legacy of Salman Schocken" (in German)
In his fragmentary narrative Der Rabbi von Bacherach (The Rabbi of Bacharach), Heinrich Heine contrasts the poetic Rhineland landscape, much celebrated in German Romanticism, with the pogroms against Jews in the late Middle Ages.
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Buchcover Heinrich Heine "Der Rabbi von Bacherach", Schocken Verlag
The historical background is provided by the old ritual murder legend of the boy Werner von Bacharach, whose death triggers a wave of pogroms against Jews along the Rhine. Only the Rabbi of Bacharach and his wife Sara survive the violence by fleeing to Frankfurt.
It was no coincidence that a new edition of the historical novel appeared in 1937 as the 80th volume of the Schocken Verlag library: pogroms, flight, and expulsion, set around the year 1495, are now read in the mirror of the National Socialist present.
Together with literary scholar Caroline Jessen and Monika Sommerer, director of the JMB Library, we take a look at Heinrich Heine's unique narrative art, which questions the romantic view of the German Rhineland landscape and reflects Heine's own relationship to Judaism.
(IN GERMAN)
Additional information
Meeting point: W. M. Blumenthal Akademie, Klaus Mangold Auditorium Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
Price: €6.00
Reduced price: €3.00
Price: €6.00
Reduced price: €3.00
Dates
September 2025
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