„Da gelangte die Kunde nach Köln”: Stolpersteine in der jüdischen Stadtgeschichte von 1096 bis 1424. Eine Retrospektive" - Abendvortrag von Prof. em. Dr. Israel J. Yuval

In the organizer's words:

"Then the news reached Cologne" - that Christian fighters had agreed to take violent action (also) against the Jews of Cologne. That was in 1096, almost a thousand years before our time. The note in the Hebrew reports on the crusade persecutions shows that the Jews of Cologne had not expected such an outbreak of violence. They trusted that they would be able to live unscathed in the Christian environment. Even after this primal catastrophe, they had counted on the protection of the city's rulers and citizens, even after the persecutions of the plague in 1349, from its resumption in 1372 until their expulsion from the city in 1424.

The lecture deals with the centuries-long vicissitudes of coexistence, experience and survival. However, it does not remain with the description of distant events, but asks, especially in view of the circumstances of the time, for today's views on them and wants to make historical knowledge fruitful for the interpretation of the present.

Israel J. Yuval is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a historian and works on Jews and Judaism in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. His main areas of research are Ashkenazi Judaism in the Middle Ages and relations between Jews and Christians from late antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. Yuval received the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2016, the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class in 2019 and the Mount Zion Award in 2021.

Welcome: PD Dr. Thomas Otten, MiQua
Introduction: Professor Dr. Johannes Heil, Heidelberg University for Jewish Studies

An event organized by MiQua and the Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies. Free admission. Registrations to: miqua@lvr.de

Venue: Festsaal im Belgischen Haus, Cäcilienstraße 46, 50667 Cologne

The public evening lecture takes place as part of the international conference "Up ewige tzyden" on the occasion of the expulsion of the Jews from Cologne in 1424 from November 3-5, 2024 in Cologne. The conference is organized by MiQua in cooperation with the Ignatz Bubis Endowed Chair for the History, Religion and Culture of European Jewry, Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies.