Munich: Events during the week of brotherhood – Munich

“Brotherhood” – the term has something old-fashioned and yet it is highly topical in these times of war, violence, militarism and growing resentment. The “Week of Brotherhood” is an annual event for Christian-Jewish cooperation in Germany, which was launched in 1952 and takes place in March. They are organized by the Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation, whose Munich/Regensburg section put together an extensive program from March 5th to 12th. “Open the gates of justice – freedom power responsibility” is his motto.

“The meaning of memory. Insights and answers from Judaism, Christianity and Islam” is the title of a lecture evening on Monday, March 6, 7 p.m. (Pfarrsaal St. Ludwig, Ludwigstraße 22). From the perspective of all three Abrahamic religions, speakers will talk about the role played by mourning over suffering and how commemoration of the deceased or the victims of acts of violence is dealt with.

Michael Brenner, professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, explains via zoom the “Long shadow of the revolution. 1923 as a turning point in dealing with Jews”. According to Brenner, this began in Munich with anti-Semitic riots at the screening of a play by Lion Feuchtwanger and the boycott of the film “Nathan the Wise” by Munich cinemas. It continued with the bloody attack on the family of the respected councilor of commerce Siegmund Fraenkel and destruction of the orthodox synagogue in Munich. Finally, it culminated with the threatened expulsion of Eastern European Jews and violent excesses around the Hitler putsch on 8/9. November. (Registration: Stadtakademie-München.de)

The book “Goethe in Buenos Aires” by Henriette Kaiser tells of a specific part of the consequences of the persecution of the Jews and the Holocaust. The Munich author interviewed contemporary witnesses about how they fled to Buenos Aires with their parents and found a new home in Argentina. Quite a few told her how, as refugees, they drew strength from the best elements of German culture, despite being expelled from Germany and confronted with Nazis who found sanctuary in Argentina. (Thursday, March 9, 7 p.m., Jewish community center, St.-Jakobs-Platz 18, registration: [email protected].

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