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Jewish Museum Worms Rashi-House Gershom Ben Jehuda The Exhibition Via the staircase you now reach the basement, along News from ShUM various objects. ShUM was innovative and modern, and how many smart women have you met! ShUM is still a magnetizing attrac- tion for Jews today. The application for being enlisted as UNESCO world heritage testifi es to the appreciation Road Sign, Tel Aviv © Susanne Urban and recognition of the ShUM Sites of Speyer, Worms and Mainz far beyond the Jewish world. ShUM stays in the news ... Read and listen for yourself. Scholarship © Bertram Bernward Meet the great scholars: Eleazar of Worms, Rashi and Jewish places Jewish Museum Worms Rashi-House Gershom ben Jehuda. Meet learned women like Dulcia Hintere Judengasse 6 | 67547 Worms and the daughters of Rashi. Learn about the legal Get to know the Judengasse. Since when did Jews live here? Why do the houses bear names and house signs? Phone: +49 (0) 6241 853 4701 | 4707 statutes of the Takkanot ShUM and discover a book E-Mail: [email protected] from the 17th century. Listen to the story of Unetane You’ll fi nd that out, too. Tokef, the liturgical poem, and let yourself be musically A map, which vividly interweaves the latest building Information on opening hours and admission fees seduced by Leonard Cohen. Accompany the Worms' research and historical knowledge, shows you the https://www.worms.de/juedisches-museum-EN/ Machzor on its journey through centuries and as far as Judengasse as it was in 1760! Israel. And what does the dragon from Mogilev has to Last but not least: a large, illuminated wall dates from the Information on opening hours do with Worms? late 12th century. The original plaster is from that time. of the cemetery “Heiliger Sand” The Rashi-House has seen a lot ... listen to the story, told https://www.worms.de/en/tourismus/sehenswertes/ Take a seat and browse through pages of the Machzor juedisches_worms/juedischer_Friedhof_Heiliger_Sand.php or Rashi‘s life. by a voice that seems to come out of the walls. Bookings of guided tours: Tourist Information Worms Phone: +49 (0) 6241 2 50 45 Thousands of Stones https://www.worms-erleben.de/erleben/planen-und- VI The medieval Jewish cemeteries in Mainz and Worms Berliner Ring buchen/service/index.php E-Mail: [email protected] Herta-Mansbacher-Anlage bear witness to the history and people of the commu- Berliner Ring II III nities. These places underline: Jewish cemeteries are 11 9 10 12 13 Herta-Mansbacher-Anlage 7 8 14 6 15 5 16 3 4 17 2 18 Please note I 1 19 20 Nordanlage eternal places, places of remembrance and of rooted- 47 49 50 52 45 46 53 21 44 54 22 43 Judengasse 41 23 The Jewish Museum in the Rashi-House and the Jewish mo- Martinsgasse 40 IV 51 60 Synagogen- 24 ness. It started here that the Ashkenazi burial culture platz 61 25 42 62 numents are diffi cult to access for people with disabilities. 48 26 VII 56 27 Predigt- K established itself. Meet Rivka and Jaakow. Discover platz B 64 28 65 Bärengasse You can learn more about the exhibition in the Rashi-House 63 66 29 57 67 C A J 30 lions, fl owers and jugs. Marvel at the goblet of the 73 via websites. Via an app you can experience the cemetery D Nordanlage 74 58 Friedrichstraße 75 31 Judenbad freier 59 76 32 Platz Karolingerstraße, 1907 Kämmererstraße E “Heiliger Sand”, the synagogue grounds and the mikveh. 33 Chevra Kadisha from the Hintere Judengasse 77 Jewish H Großer Platz 34 55 F am Schlachthaus 72 35 79 V early 17th century – one 71 36 G 68 78 37 69 70 80 38 Further Information 39 of the oldest Judaica in 81 Museum 82 Sterngasse 83 https://www.worms.de/juedisches-museum-EN/ Germany. https://gdke.rlp.de Worms Sterngasse 0 100 m https://schumstaedte.de/en/ © Heribert Feldhaus, 2020 Karolingerstraße Bärengasse Rashi-House © Heribert Feldhaus An exhibition of the City of Worms with the Jewish Museum Worms in cooperation with the State of Rhineland-Palatinate with the Ge- neral Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (GDKE) The tour of ShUM ends here. Virtually there is much with the participation of the ShUM-Cities Speyer, Worms, Mainz e.V. more to experience. Supported by the Foundation „Gut.für die Region“ of the Sparkasse Worms-Alzey-Ried. Heiliger Sand. View of the cathedral, drawing, 1920s Don’t forget: visit Speyer and Mainz as well! © City Archive Worms GENERALDIREKTION © GDKE – Photo: Jürgen Ernst KULTURELLES ERBE ShUM Shin (Sch) = ShPIRA = Speyer Waw (U) = Warmaisa = Worms Illustration from the Worms' Machzor Synagogue, Interior View into the women's school. Mem (M) = Magenza = Mainz © Courtesy of the National Library Israel, Jerusalem Worms, 1920s Title page from a compilation © City Archive Worms on the 900th anniversary of Worms Synagogue, 1934 Together: an innovative Jewish community association. © City Archive Worms Flourishing between the 11th and 13th century. Scholars Gateway to ShUM and buildings, traditions and personalities – still ancho- Go through the gate. red in the tradition and present day Jewish worlds. There the time travel begins. Do you hear the prayers? The horse carts? The singing women? UNESCO World Heritage Worms’ Synagogue Women The Jewish Museum in the Rashi-House shows the exhibi- The ShUM Sites of Speyer, Worms and Mainz Almost 1000 years of history, reflected in this synagogue, Immerse into the world of women in ShUM. Jewish tion on the ShUM communities on the ground floor and What is World Heritage? Why are the ShUM Sites of which appears modest from the outside – measured women are important and respected members of the in the basement. In the lecture room you can watch films Speyer, Worms and Mainz unique and what distinguis- against the imperial cathedrals. The building mirrors community in the Middle Ages. They take responsibility about the Jewish history and discover 3-D reconstructi- hes them from other Jewish places? Here you can find brightest and darkest eras, tells of destruction and re- in and for the community, are educated and employed. ons of Jewish monuments. out more about them and get closer to the outstanding, construction, of the Shoah and the subsequent recovery. exemplary synagogues, women’s shuln, yeshivot, ritual Get to know the Worms’ Jewish citizen Isidor Kiefer here: Water The exhibition site and its history baths and cemeteries. You‘ll meet him time and again in the exhibition. ShUM on the Rhine ... every Jewish community needs The Rashi-House is located exactly on the same spot water for ritual purification. What is a mikveh? When where the Jewish community house had stood since the Jewish places do women or men use the ritual bath? When were the late 12th century. In the 19th and 20th century, the buil- Imperial cathedrals and Jewish quarters are in close vici- monumental mikva’ot in ShUM built? Immerse yourself ding was used as a teaching house, for weddings and as nity in the ShUM cities. When did Jews come to the three and get to know this cleansing process – also through a a hospital as well as an old people‘s home for the Jewish cities on the Rhine? Legends and unique documents tell Zakhor! Remember! film that lets you descend into the breathtaking medie- community. From November 1938 until the end of 1942, you about this. val mikveh in Speyer. as a “Judenhaus”, it became a transit space for Jews ex- זכור pelled from their homes before being deported to the Shoah German extermination camps. After 1945, the building An installation on the Shoah disturbs the room and leads is owned by the City of Worms, used for other purposes you to films from which you can choose. Watch historical and demolished in 1971. Between 1980 and 1982 a new film footage of the reopening of the Worms’ synagogue building, the present Rashi-House, is constructed. It takes on 3 December 1961 – or a short film on the history of up the form of the medieval building. Valuable parts of the synagogue – or listen to the son of a Worms Jew who the medieval walls can still be found in the basement. talks about his family history. Go on a voyage of discovery through times and history! The upper floors house the City Archive with the photo department and the Lower Monument Protection Authority. Privilege 1074. The original is stored in the City Mikveh Worms Archive in the Rashi-House. © City Archive Worms.
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