Jüdische Identitäten in der DDR

In the organizer's words:

LECTURE & DISCUSSION as part of the Jewish Week

With the Leipzig rabbi ESTHER JONAS-MARTIN

In the GDR, freedom of religion was enshrined in the constitution, but the reality with regard to the Jewish population was different. Since 1945, the policies of the GDR and its treatment of Jewish communities have gone through various phases. The speaker explores the living conditions of Jewish people - as a scientific observer and also on the basis of her own family history.

ESTHER JONAS-MARTIN, Master of Arts in Rabbinics and Rabbinic Ordination in Los Angeles; founder of the Beth Etz Chaim House of Learning in Leipzig (2018) as well as speaker and author on modern Jewish history, gender, Yiddish poetry, Jewish ethics and Judaism, anti-Semitism, Yiddish literature and Jewish theology

Supported within the project "Jewish, art(ing), inspiring..." by the KdFS for the Year of Jewish Culture.