Jacob Picards Erinnerungen an die alemannischen Landjuden Erzählungen von 1936

In the organizer's words:

The lawyer and writer Jacob Picard (1883-1967) came from a Jewish family that had lived in Wangen on the lower shores of Lake Constance since 1760 at the latest. In his childhood, he experienced the life of an intact Jewish community with mutual respect between Christians and Jews. In 1933, when he was banned from practising his profession as a lawyer, he made this life the subject of stories that were published in 1936 under the title "Der Gezeichnete" (The Marked Man) by the "Jüdische Buchvereinigung Berlin" (Jewish Book Association Berlin), which was licensed by the National Socialists. They attracted a great deal of attention in the Jewish press because for the first time they presented a picture of Upper Swabian rural Jewry, which had hardly been noticed until then.

The German scholar Prof. Dr. Helmuth Kiesel (Heidelberg) recently published a monumental overview of German-language literature during the National Socialist era under the title "Schreiben in finsteren Zeiten" (Writing in Dark Times). In his lecture, he will pay tribute to Picard's narrative process and his image of Upper Swabian rural Jewry. At the same time, he asks what message Picard wanted to send to the audience of 1936 with his thoroughly nostalgic stories from the 19th century.

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