HaOlam HaZeh ( Hebrew : העולם הזה , lit. This World ) was a weekly news magazine published in Israel until 1993.
135-503: The magazine was founded in 1937 under the name Tesha BaErev (Hebrew: תשע בערב, Nine in the Evening ) but was renamed HaOlam HaZeh in 1946. In 1950 it was bought by Uri Avnery , Shalom Cohen , and two others who soon withdrew. Under Avnery's leadership, the magazine became famous for its highly unorthodox and irreverent style. Its news focussed on investigative reports, often presented in sensationalist fashion, which provoked anger from
270-497: A German, belong to a society that was under French leadership. German Jews supported German colonial ambitions in Africa and Eastern Europe, out of the desire to increase German power and to rescue Eastern European Jews from Tsarist rule. The eastern advance became important for German Jews because it combined German military superiority with rescuing Eastern Jews from Russian brutality; Russian antisemitism and pogroms had only worsened as
405-547: A German-Jewish newspaper reported that all the young Jewish males in the Franconian towns of Hagenbach , Ottingen , and Warnbach had emigrated or were about to emigrate. The United States was the primary destination for emigrating German Jews. The Revolutions of 1848 swung the pendulum back towards freedom for the Jews. A noted reform rabbi of that time was Leopold Zunz , a contemporary and friend of Heinrich Heine . In 1871, with
540-493: A book of his early period in parliament, entitled 1 against 119: Uri Avnery in the Knesset , (1969). By the 1970s, Avnery came to think that Zionism—an ideology centered on the ingathering of the exiles—was effectively dead, since diaspora Jews in significant numbers were no longer performing aliyah . Avnerey considers his ideology to be post-Zionism , and he states that he may have been the first to use that word. In late 1975 he
675-516: A book, In the Fields of Philistia ( Hebrew : בשדות פלשת , Bi-Sdot Pleshet ). His experiences impressed him with the understanding that there was such a thing as the Palestinian people . They would enter villages where lighted fires and Primus cookers indicated that the inhabitants had fled minutes before. It was rational for them to flee because that is what all civilians do when fired on. Avnery
810-505: A clerk for a lawyer, a job he held for about five years. He joined the Irgun , a Zionist paramilitary group, in 1938, in reaction to the execution of Shlomo Ben-Yosef by the British authorities. Ben-Yosef had thrown a grenade (which failed to explode) into a bus carrying Arab women and children. However, unlike his comrade-in-arms Yitzhak Shamir who joined up at roughly the same time, Avnery
945-663: A collectivity, legitimate for Jews as it was for Arabs. As early as 1946 he coined the term Hishtalvut BaMerhav (integration into the region) to express the idea that the future state of the Jews must align itself within a broad "Semitic space" ( Merhav HaShemi ), a choice of terminology dictated by his perception that the region had been dominated by Western imperialism and colonialism. This "Semitic region" where he envisaged an alliance between Arab and Jewish national movements included Palestine, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. In 1947 Avnery founded his own small group, Eretz Yisrael HaTze'ira ("Young Land of Israel"), which published
1080-636: A column for CounterPunch criticizing the Israeli military for their response to the 2018 Gaza border protests . He wrote: "I dissociate myself from the [Israeli] army sharpshooters who murder unarmed demonstrators along the Gaza Strip, and from their commanders, who give them the orders, up to the commander in chief". On 4 August 2018, Avnery suffered a stroke and was hospitalized in a critical condition in Tel Aviv . He died at Ichilov Hospital on 20 August 2018 at
1215-509: A consequence of the fictitious confessions extracted under torture from the Jews of Trent , the populace of many cities, especially of Regensburg, fell upon the Jews and massacred them. The end of the 15th century, which brought a new epoch for the Christian world , brought no relief to the Jews. Jews in Germany remained the victims of a religious hatred that ascribed to them all possible evils. When
1350-489: A date, she went to his office and learned he had had all his fingers broken. She took care of him, and they lived together for 5 years; they were both averse to religion and, in Israel, civil marriages are not permitted , so they could not get married in a way they could accept. They formalized their relationship privately with a rabbi to set Rachel's father's mind at rest when the latter fell ill. Avnery said her outstanding trait
1485-514: A few men came forward to promote their cause, foremost among them being Gabriel Riesser (d. 1863), a Jewish lawyer from Hamburg , who demanded full civic equality for his people. He won over public opinion to such an extent that this equality was granted in Prussia on 6 April 1848, in Hanover and Nassau on 5 September and on 12 December, respectively, and also in his home state of Hamburg , then home to
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#17328692480641620-470: A key role in keeping the Jewish communities in tune with the changing society that was evoked by the Jews being emancipated. Jewish women were the catalyst of modernization within the Jewish community. The years 1870–1918 marked the shift in the women's role in society. Their job in the past had been housekeeping and raising children. Now, however, they began to contribute to the home financially. Jewish mothers were
1755-708: A large and well-organized Jewish community in these regions dates from 321 CE and refers to Cologne on the Rhine . It indicates that the legal status of the Jews there was the same as elsewhere in the Roman Empire . They enjoyed some civil liberties, but were restricted regarding the dissemination of their culture, the keeping of non-Jewish slaves, and the holding of office under the government. Jews were otherwise free to follow any occupation open to indigenous Germans and were engaged in agriculture, trade, industry, and gradually money-lending. These conditions at first continued in
1890-468: A lifelong interest in military strategy , which he started studying in order to better follow events at the time. In 2006 he said he had over time read "a few hundred books" on the subject, by authors such as Sun Tzu , Clausewitz , Liddell-Hart and others. He left the Irgun in 1942 after becoming disenchanted with their tactics, stating in a 2003 interview that, "I didn't like the methods of terror applied by
2025-443: A moral "power of attorney", a permit to do anything you want – because nothing can compare to what has happened to us. This is a moral immunity which is very clearly felt in Israel." His visit with Arafat was among the reasons he became estranged from his mother, Hilda Ostermann, who disinherited him. She did not learn Hebrew and knew nothing of politics other than what she gleaned from a German-language nationalist newsletter. To meet
2160-769: A new generation of Jews. He maintained a leading role in the German Haskalah , is one of the founding editors of Ha-Me/assef . Euchel was exposed to European languages and culture while living in Prussian centers: Berlin and Koenigsberg. His interests turned towards promoting the educational interests of the Enlightenment with other Jews. Moses Mendelssohn as another enlightenment thinker was the first Jew to bring secular culture to those living an Orthodox Jewish life. He valued reason and felt that anyone could arrive logically at religious truths while arguing that what makes Judaism unique
2295-515: A number of incidents have occurred in recent years. Jewish migration from Roman Italy is considered the most likely source of the first Jews on German territory. There were Jews in Rome as early as 139 BCE. While the date of the first settlement of Jews in the regions which the Romans called Germania Superior , Germania Inferior , and Magna Germania is not known, the first authentic document relating to
2430-554: A punchy, aggressive style of newspaper writing into Israeli journalism and, according to Greer Fay, virtually every journalist who trained under him moved on to become a star elsewhere. After the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 Avnery used his editorials in HaOlam HaZeh to call for a preventive strike against Egypt, arguing that "the reactionary Arab regimes" would attack Israel "the minute Arab superiority in weapons over Israel
2565-433: A registration certificate, known as a Matrikel , proving he was in a "respectable" trade or profession. A Matrikel , which could cost up to 1,000 florins, was usually restricted to firstborn sons. As a result, most Jewish men were unable to legally marry. Throughout Germany, Jews were heavily taxed, and were sometimes discriminated against by gentile craftsmen. As a result, many German Jews began to emigrate. The emigration
2700-581: A silk factory, after beginning his publications of philosophical essays in German. Mendelssohn conceived of God as a perfect Being and had faith in "God's wisdom, righteousness, mercy, and goodness." He argued, "the world results from a creative act through which the divine will seeks to realize the highest good," and accepted the existence of miracles and revelation as long as belief in God did not depend on them. He also believed that revelation could not contradict reason. Like
2835-548: A way that their right to observe religious laws is granted, while also recognizing the needs for respect, and multiplicity of religions. He campaigned for emancipation and instructed Jews to form bonds with the gentile governments, attempting to improve the relationship between Jews and Christians while arguing for tolerance and humanity. He became the symbol of the Jewish Enlightenment, the Haskalah. Early 19th century In
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#17328692480642970-542: A well-organized system of Jewish charity for needy Talmud students. Mendelssohn read this book and found proof of the existence of God – his first meeting with a sample of European letters. This was only the beginning to Mendelssohn's inquiries about the knowledge of life. Mendelssohn learned many new languages, and with his whole education consisting of Talmud lessons, he thought in Hebrew and translated for himself every new piece of work he met into this language. The divide between
3105-511: Is great enough." He began to revise his views after the 1956 Suez Crisis , which ended in Israeli withdrawal and strengthened Nasser . In June 1957 Avnery suggested that Israel aid Palestinians in overthrowing the Hashemite monarchy in Jordan (a "product of imperialism"); Israel would then form a federation with the new Palestinian Jordanian state. In the late 1950s Avnery was among the founders of
3240-503: Is its divine revelation of a code of law. Mendelssohn's commitment to Judaism leads to tensions even with some of those who subscribed to Enlightenment philosophy. Faithful Christians who were less opposed to his rationalistic ideas than to his adherence to Judaism found it difficult to accept this Juif de Berlin. In most of Western Europe, the Haskalah ended with large numbers of Jews assimilating. Many Jews stopped adhering to Jewish law, and
3375-567: The 1969 election . However, Cohen left the party in 1972 and the following year Avnery renamed it Meri . Stories in which HaOlam HaZeh's reporting played an important part included the 1965 massacre at Qibya (after which Avnery and Cohen were allegedly beaten up by members of the IDF unit that had conducted the raid), the Kasztner libel trial , the Kafr Qasim massacre , and Ben Dunkelman 's story about
3510-602: The Black Death swept over Europe in 1348–49, some Christian communities accused Jews of poisoning wells . Compared to the south and west of the Holy Roman Empire, the persecutions appear to have brought less drastic effects in the eastern parts of the Holy Roman Empire. Nonetheless, in the Erfurt Massacre of 1349 , the members of the entire Jewish community were murdered or expelled from the city, due to superstitions about
3645-927: The Free City of Frankfurt , only 12 Jewish couples were allowed to marry each year, and the 400,000 florins the city's Jewish community had paid in 1811 for its emancipation was forfeited. After the Rhineland reverted to Prussian control, Jews lost the rights Napoleon had granted them, were banned from certain professions, and the few who had been appointed to public office before the Napoleonic Wars were dismissed. Throughout numerous German states, Jews had their rights to work, settle, and marry restricted. Without special letters of protection, Jews were banned from many different professions, and often had to resort to jobs considered unrespectable, such as peddling or cattle dealing, to survive. A Jewish man who wanted to marry had to purchase
3780-560: The Hebrew prayers and the Bible in the original text. Halakhic studies began to flourish about 1000. At that time, Rav Gershom ben Judah was teaching at Metz and Mainz, gathering about him pupils from far and near. He is described in Jewish historiography as a model of wisdom, humility, and piety, and became known to succeeding generations as the "Light of the Exile ". In highlighting his role in
3915-578: The Israeli military to carry out " a targeted killing " against Avnery. He advocated negotiations with Hamas . In 2007 Gush Shalom had a sticker printed which read: "Talk to Hamas". Avnery himself had once, in 1993, addressed in Gaza an audience of 500 bearded sheikhs, who listened as he spoke to them in Hebrew, and, applauding him, invited him to lunch. Avnery was a contributor to the news and opinion sites such as for CounterPunch . In April 2018, Avnery wrote
4050-581: The Napoleonic era and its aftermath, citizenship was established as a new franchise generally applying to all former subjects of the monarchs. Prussia conferred citizenship on the Prussian Jews in 1812, though this by no means resulted in full equality with other citizens. Jewish emancipation did not eliminate all forms of discrimination against Jews, who often remained barred from holding official state positions. The German federal edicts of 1815 merely held out
4185-476: The 15th century was a period of religious hatred that ascribed to Jews all possible evils. With Napoleon's fall in 1815 , growing nationalism resulted in increasing repression. From August to October 1819, pogroms that came to be known as the Hep-Hep riots took place throughout Germany. During this time, many German states stripped Jews of their civil rights. As a result, many German Jews began to emigrate. From
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4320-496: The 18th century, some Jews and their families (such as Daniel Itzig in Berlin) gained equal status with their Christian fellow city dwellers, but had a different status from noblemen, Huguenots, or serfs. They often did not enjoy the right to freedom of movement across territorial or even municipal boundaries, let alone the same status in any new place as in their previous location. With the abolition of differences in legal status during
4455-780: The Alternative Nobel Prize) in 2001 and the Carl von Ossietzky Medal in 2008. Avnery was born in Beckum , near Münster in Westphalia , as Helmut Ostermann , the youngest of four children, to a well-established German Jewish family, his father being a private banker in the town. His grandfather, Josef Ostermann, was a teacher in Beckum's small Jewish community. His family roots are in Rhineland ; his mother had once told him from which small Rhenish village his ancestors hailed, but he later forgot
4590-617: The Black Death. Many persecutions were clearly favoured by a royal throne crisis and the Wittelsbach - Luxembourg dualism, therefore recent German research proposed the term “Thronkrisenverfolgungen” (throne crisis persecutions). Royal policy and public ambivalence towards Jews helped the persecuted Jews fleeing to the East from the German-speaking lands to form the foundations of what would become
4725-640: The German humanist, who was the first one in Germany to include the Hebrew language among the humanities. His opinion, though strongly opposed by the Dominicans and their followers, finally prevailed when the humanistic Pope Leo X permitted the Talmud to be printed in Italy. Though reading German books was forbidden in the 1700s by Jewish inspectors who had a measure of police power in Germany, Moses Mendelson found his first German book, an edition of Protestant theology , at
4860-561: The German or Berlin Haskalah offered many effects to the challenges of German society. As early as the 1740s, many German Jews and some individual Polish and Lithuanian Jews had a desire for secular education . The German-Jewish Enlightenment of the late 18th century, the Haskalah , marks the political, social, and intellectual transition of European Jewry to modernity. Some of the elite members of Jewish society knew European languages. Absolutist governments in Germany, Austria, and Russia deprived
4995-672: The Hamburg pamphleteer Wilhelm Marr introduced the term 'antisemitism' into the political vocabulary by founding the Antisemitic League . Antisemites of the völkisch movement were the first to describe themselves as such, because they viewed Jews as part of a Semitic race that could never be properly assimilated into German society. Such was the ferocity of the anti-Jewish feeling of the völkisch movement that by 1900, antisemitic had entered German to describe anyone who had anti-Jewish feelings. However, despite massive protests and petitions,
5130-697: The Holocaust. It would be nice to believe that people who have undergone suffering have been purified by suffering. But it's the opposite, it makes them worse. It corrupts. There is something in suffering that creates a kind of egoism. Herzog [the Israeli president at the time] was speaking at the site of the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen but he spoke only about the Jews. How could he not mention that others – many others – had suffered there? Sick people, when they are in pain, cannot speak about anyone but themselves. And when such monstrous things have happened to your people, you feel nothing can be compared to it. You get
5265-509: The Holy Roman Empire, its inhabitants were subject to varying estate regulations. In different ways from one territory of the empire to another, these regulations classified inhabitants into different groups, such as dynasts, members of the court entourage, other aristocrats , city dwellers ( burghers ), Jews, Huguenots (in Prussia a special estate until 1810), free peasants , serfs , peddlers and Gypsies , with different privileges and burdens attached to each classification. Legal inequality
5400-659: The Hussites made peace with the Church, the Pope sent the Franciscan friar John of Capistrano to win the renegades back into the fold and inspire them with loathing for heresy and unbelief; 41 martyrs were burned in Wrocław alone, and all Jews were forever banished from Silesia. The Franciscan friar Bernardine of Feltre brought a similar fate upon the communities in southern and western Germany. As
5535-527: The Irgun at the time", noting he did not back killing people in retaliation for similar acts by the Arabs. From 1941 to 1946, he wrote for two far right wing newspapers, HaHevrah (Society) and BaMa'avak (In the Struggle). His early political thought was influenced by Canaanism . Avnery abandoned Zionism at an early age, while remaining a nationalist, which he regarded as a natural feeling for desiring to belong to
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5670-533: The Israeli establishment and disdain from Israel's mainstream press. Government ministers regularly called for it to be shut down, especially when it had exposed (or claimed to expose) some government scandal. For a few years, the government even secretly financed a rival magazine, Rimon , in a failed attempt to counter HaOlam HaZeh's popularity. Sometimes mainstream publications leaked to HaOlam HaZeh stories that they felt unable to publish themselves. Jacob Shavit writes that "from 1957 on, Ha-Olam ha-Zeh became
5805-465: The Jewish community was the cultivation of Jewish literature and associations created with teachers, rabbis, and leaders of congregations. Another vital part of the reorganization of the Jewish-German community was the heavy involvement of Jewish women in the community and their new tendencies to assimilate their families into a different lifestyle. Jewish women were contradicting their view points in
5940-523: The Jewish community's leadership of its authority and many Jews became 'Court Jews' . Using their connections with Jewish businessmen to serve as military contractors, managers of mints, founders of new industries and providers to the court of precious stones and clothing, they gave economic assistance to the local rulers. Court Jews were protected by the rulers and acted as did everyone else in society in their speech, manners, and awareness of European literature and ideas. Isaac Euchel , for example, represented
6075-548: The Jewish lifestyle inside their homes. During the history of the German Empire, there were various divisions within the German Jewish community over its future; in religious terms, Orthodox Jews sought to keep to Jewish religious tradition, while liberal Jews sought to "modernise" their communities by shifting from liturgical traditions to organ music and German-language prayers. Many immigrants travelled through Germany on
6210-424: The Jewish people throughout the generation. Napoleon I emancipated the Jews across Europe, but with Napoleon's fall in 1815, growing nationalism resulted in increasing repression. From August to October 1819, pogroms that came to be known as the Hep-Hep riots took place throughout Germany. Jewish property was destroyed in large number. During this time, many German states stripped Jews of their civil rights. In
6345-535: The Jewish unbelievers. This feeling, among both princes and people, was further stimulated by the attacks on the civic equality of the Jews. Beginning with the 10th century, Holy Week became more and more a period of antisemitic activities, yet the Saxon emperors did not treat the Jews badly, exacting from them merely the taxes levied upon all other merchants. Although the Jews in Germany were as ignorant as their contemporaries in secular studies, they could read and understand
6480-451: The Jews and the rest of society was caused by a lack of translation between these two languages, and Mendelssohn translated the Torah into German, bridging the gap between the two; this book allowed Jews to speak and write in German, preparing them for participation in German culture and secular science. In 1750, Mendelssohn began to serve as a teacher in the house of Isaac Bernhard, the owner of
6615-447: The Jews became an official Nazi policy. In 1935 and 1936, the pace of antisemitic persecution increased. In 1936, Jews were banned from all professional jobs, effectively preventing them from participating in education, politics, higher education and industry. On 10 November 1938, the state police and Nazi paramilitary forces orchestrated the Night of Broken Glass ( Kristallnacht ), in which
6750-509: The Jews considered life without their religion not worth living; but they did not realize this clearly until the time of the Crusades, when they were often compelled to choose between life and faith. The Jewish communities of the cities of Speyer , Worms , and Mainz formed the league of cities which became the center of Jewish life during Medieval times. These are referred to as the ShUM cities, after
6885-408: The Jews in return for a certain sum paid to him. Emperor Wenceslaus declared that anyone helping Jews with the collection of their debts, in spite of this annulment, would be dealt with as a robber and peacebreaker, and be forced to make restitution. This decree, which is believed to have impaired the public availability of credit was also reported to have impoverished thousands of Jewish families near
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#17328692480647020-601: The Jews resulting in increased trade and prosperity." The First Crusade began an era of persecution of Jews in Germany, especially in the Rhineland . The communities of Trier , Worms, Mainz, and Cologne, were attacked. The Jewish community of Speyer was saved by the bishop, but 800 were slain in Worms . About 12,000 Jews are said to have perished in the Rhenish cities alone between May and July 1096. Alleged crimes, like desecration of
7155-574: The Jews secured the remunerative monopoly of money-lending . This decree caused a mixed reaction of people in general in the Carolingian Empire (including Germany) to the Jews: Jewish people were sought everywhere, as well as avoided. This ambivalence about Jews occurred because their capital was indispensable, while their business was viewed as disreputable. This curious combination of circumstances increased Jewish influence, and Jews went about
7290-619: The Jews were now invited, with the promise of full protection, to return to those districts and cities from which they had shortly before been expelled. However, as soon as Jewish people acquired some property, they were again plundered and driven away. These episodes thenceforth constituted a large portion of the medieval history of the German Jews. Emperor Wenceslaus was particularly skilled at transferring gold from wealthier Jews to his own coffers. He entered compacts with many cities, estates, and princes whereby he annulled all outstanding debts to
7425-468: The Jews. Charles IV , via the Golden Bull of 1356 , granted this privilege to the seven electors of the empire when the empire was reorganized in 1356. From this time onward, for reasons that also apparently concerned taxes, the Jews of Germany gradually passed in increasing numbers from the authority of the emperor to that of both the lesser sovereigns and the cities. For the sake of sorely needed revenue,
7560-594: The Palestinian leader he had to forsake his regular Friday visit to his mother in Rehovot . In her will, Hilda wrote "I do not leave a penny to my son Uri, who instead of taking care of me went off to visit that murderer Yasser Arafat". However, his sister gave him his share of the inheritance. He later turned to left-wing peace activism and founded the Gush Shalom movement in 1993, and argued that every Israeli settlement
7695-587: The Rhine into world-wide prominence. Their fame spread, rivaling that of other post- Diaspora cities such as Baghdad . Western European – Ashkenazic or Germanic – Judaism became centered in Mainz, breaking free of the Babylonian traditions. A Yeshiva was founded in the 10th century by Gershom ben Judah . Historian John Man describes Mainz as "the capital of European Jewry ", noting that Gershom ben Judah "was
7830-468: The aborted attempt to expel the inhabitants of Nazareth (in HaOlam HaZeh's July 1980 edition). In 1984 it was the first to publish one of the pictures of a prisoner being taken from Bus 300 disproving army statements that all the hijackers had died when the bus was stormed. Uri Avnery Uri Avnery ( Hebrew : אורי אבנרי , also transliterated Uri Avneri ; 10 September 1923 – 20 August 2018)
7965-424: The age of 94, less than a month short of his 95th birthday. In accordance to his wishes, he was cremated and his ashes were scattered off the coast of Tel Aviv . Avnery's life with his Berlin-born companion Rachel ( née Greenboim ) lasted 58 years, five of them before they married. In 1995 he stated proudly that they were the only Israeli couple he knew who were not divorced. They first met when she
8100-567: The brow. The gesture of kissing her on the brow was repeated by Yasser Arafat when she and her husband acted as human shields when he was under siege and holed up in the Mukataa . She earned the respect and friendship of Raed Salah during tent protests against Yitzhak Rabin 's deportation of 415 Palestinians to Lebanon in December 1992. She was a primary school teacher for 28 years. She died in May 2011 of
8235-448: The cities of Mainz , Speyer and Worms became the center of Jewish life during medieval times. "This was a golden age as area bishops protected the Jews, resulting in increased trade and prosperity." The First Crusade began an era of persecution of Jews in Germany. Entire communities, like those of Trier , Worms, Mainz and Cologne , were slaughtered. The Hussite Wars became the signal for renewed persecution of Jews. The end of
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#17328692480648370-399: The close of the 14th century. The 15th century did not bring any amelioration. What happened in the time of the Crusades happened again. The war upon the Hussites became the signal for renewed persecution of Jews. The Jews of Austria, Bohemia , Moravia , and Silesia passed through all the terrors of death, forced baptism , or voluntary self-immolation for the sake of their faith. When
8505-431: The conservative movement in modern Judaism who accepted the modern spirit of liberalism . Samson Raphael Hirsch defended traditional customs, denying the modern "spirit". Neither of these beliefs was followed by the faithful Jews. Zecharias Frankel created a moderate reform movement in assurance with German communities. Public worships were reorganized, reduction of medieval additions to the prayer, congregational singing
8640-410: The country freely, settling also in the eastern portions ( Old Saxony and Duchy of Thuringia ). Aside from Cologne , the earliest communities were established in Mainz, Worms , Speyer , Regensburg , and Aachen . The status of the German Jews remained unchanged under Charlemagne's successor, Louis the Pious . Jews were unrestricted in their commerce; however, they paid somewhat higher taxes into
8775-431: The deists, Mendelssohn claimed that reason could discover the reality of God, divine providence, and immortality of the soul . He was the first to speak out against the use of excommunication as a religious threat. At the height of his career, in 1769, Mendelssohn was publicly challenged by a Christian apologist , a Zurich pastor named John Lavater , to defend the superiority of Judaism over Christianity. From then on, he
8910-465: The doctor and author of Ma'aseh Tuviyyah , Tobias b. Moses Cohn , appreciated the secular culture. The most important feature during this time was the German Aufklärung , which was able to boast of native figures who competed with the finest Western European writers, scholars, and intellectuals. Aside from the externalities of language and dress, the Jews internalized the cultural and intellectual norms of German society. The movement, becoming known as
9045-469: The east." War fervour was as common amongst Jewish communities as it was amongst ethnic Germans ones. The main Jewish organisation in Germany, the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith, declared unconditional support for the war and when 5 August was declared by the Kaiser to be a day of patriotic prayer, synagogues across Germany surged with visitors and filled with patriotic prayers and nationalistic speeches. While going to war brought
9180-425: The emperor one kreutzer out of every florins of their property in addition to the taxes they were already paying to both the state and municipal authorities. The emperors of the House of Luxembourg devised other means of taxation. They turned their prerogatives in regard to the Jews to further account by selling at a high price to the princes and free towns of the empire the valuable privilege of taxing and fining
9315-401: The end of the war, an estimated 160,000 to 180,000 German Jews had been killed by the Nazi regime and their collaborators. A total of about six million European Jews were murdered under the direction of the Nazis, in the genocide that later came to be known as the Holocaust . After the war, the Jewish community in Germany started to slowly grow again. Beginning around 1990, a spurt of growth
9450-567: The enemy was Russia also gave an additional reason for German Jews to support the war; Tsarist Russia was regarded as the oppressor in the eyes of German Jews for its pogroms and for many German Jews, the war against Russia would become a sort of holy war . While there was partially a desire for vengeance, for many Jews ensuring Russia's Jewish population was saved from a life of servitude was equally important – one German-Jewish publication stated "We are fighting to protect our holy fatherland, to rescue European culture and to liberate our brothers in
9585-400: The established Church, threatened in its spiritual power in Germany and elsewhere, prepared for its conflict with the culture of the German Renaissance , one of its most convenient points of attack was rabbinic literature . At this time, as once before in France, Jewish converts spread false reports in regard to the Talmud , but an advocate of the book arose in the person of Johann Reuchlin ,
9720-402: The failing magazine HaOlam HaZeh ("This World"). Avnery edited the weekly magazine, with its banner maxim "without fear, without bias," during the 1950s and the 1960s, turning it into an anti-establishment tabloid known for many sensational scoops . Its impact was such that David Ben-Gurion refused to mention it by name, and would only speak of "that particular magazine". The magazine
9855-405: The fighting. Many German Jews supported the war out of patriotism; like many Germans, they viewed Germany's actions as defensive in nature and even left-liberal Jews believed Germany was responding to the actions of other countries, particularly Russia. For many Jews it was never a question as to whether or not they would stand behind Germany, it was simply a given that they would. The fact that
9990-417: The first letters of the Hebrew names: Shin for Speyer ( Shpira ), Waw for Worms ( Varmaisa ) and Mem for Mainz ( Magentza ). The Takkanot Shum ( Hebrew : תקנות שו"ם "Enactments of ShUM") were a set of decrees formulated and agreed upon over a period of decades by their Jewish community leaders. The official website for the city of Mainz states: One of the most glorious epochs in Mainz's long history
10125-514: The first to bring copies of the Talmud to Western Europe" and that his directives "helped Jews adapt to European practices." Gershom's school attracted Jews from all over Europe, including the famous biblical scholar Rashi ; and "in the mid-14th century, it had the largest Jewish community in Europe: some 6,000." "In essence," states the City of Mainz web site, "this was a golden age as area bishops protected
10260-547: The group Semitic Action , which argued for a regional federation of Israel and its neighbors. In 1965, Avnery created a political party bearing the name of his and Cohen's magazine, HaOlam HaZeh – Koah Hadash , and was elected to the Knesset in the 1965 election . The move was inspired by the passage in 1965 of a Law against Defamation in Israel, which Avnery took personally as a legislative measure designed to muzzle his newspaper's reportage. The dominant focus of his criticism
10395-574: The host, ritual murder, poisoning of wells, and treason, brought hundreds to the stake and drove thousands into exile. Jews were alleged to have caused the inroads of the Mongols , though they suffered equally with the Christians. Jews suffered intense persecution during the Rintfleisch massacres of 1298. In 1336 Jews from Alsace were subjected to massacres by the outlaws of Arnold von Uissigheim . When
10530-585: The journal Ma'avak ("Struggle"). During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War Avnery fought on the southern front in the Givati Brigade as a squad commander, and later in the Samson's Foxes commando unit (and also wrote its anthem, The Foxes of Shimshon , which has been called "one of the enduring battle anthems of the 1948 campaign"). He wrote dispatches from the front line which were published in Haaretz and later as
10665-598: The largest Jewish community in all of Europe. The legal and civic status of the Jews underwent a transformation under the Holy Roman Empire . Jewish people found a certain degree of protection with the Holy Roman Emperor , who claimed the right of possession and protection of all the Jews of the empire. A justification for this claim was that the Holy Roman Emperor was the successor of the emperor Titus , who
10800-459: The late 18th century, a youthful enthusiasm for new ideals of religious equality began to take hold in the western world. Austrian Emperor Joseph II was foremost in espousing these new ideals. As early as 1782, he issued the Patent of Toleration for the Jews of Lower Austria , thereby establishing civic equality for his Jewish subjects. Before 1806, when general citizenship was largely nonexistent in
10935-711: The lines during the Siege of Beirut to meet Yasser Arafat on 3 July 1982, the first time the Palestinian leader met with an Israeli. Avnery was the author of several books about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict , including 1948: A Soldier's Tale, the Bloody Road to Jerusalem (2008); Israel's Vicious Circle (2008); and My Friend, the Enemy (1986). He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award (better known informally as
11070-638: The locally dominant Christian denomination ( Calvinism , Roman Catholicism , or Lutheranism ). City dwellers of other denominations or religions and those who lacked the necessary wealth to qualify as citizens were considered to be mere inhabitants who lacked political rights, and were sometimes subject to revocable residence permits. Most Jews then living in those parts of Germany that allowed them to settle were automatically defined as mere indigenous inhabitants, depending on permits that were typically less generous than those granted to gentile indigenous inhabitants ( Einwohner , as opposed to Bürger , or citizen). In
11205-403: The long-term debilitating effects of a Hepatitis C infection contracted some two decades earlier. Their marriage was childless by choice. Avnery suffered from both diabetes and Crohn's disease . In his testament he willed his assets and savings to the people of Israel, to finance further peace projects. German Jewish The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to
11340-406: The magazine covered the publication of Rina Ben-Menahem 's first book, "HaDavka'im" (Hebrew: הדווקאים – The Spiteful Doers ). In the mid-1960s the papers owners, Avnery and Cohen entered politics, founding a new party, which they named after the paper: HaOlam HaZeh – Koah Hadash . Avnery was elected to the Knesset in the 1965 election and Cohen joined him when the party picked up another seat in
11475-411: The main forum" for advocacy of a Palestinian state. Starting in 1959, the magazine had a "two cover" design, with the front cover presenting serious journalism and the back cover presenting sensational articles of a gossipy or sexual nature, sometimes displaying naked women. Under one of these back covers, titled " Special Report: The Lesbian Problem in Israel (Hebrew: "דו״ח מיוחד: הבעיה הלסבית בישראל"),
11610-434: The military, the diplomatic service, judiciary or senior bureaucracy was very small. Some historians believe that with emancipation the Jewish people lost their roots in their culture and began only using German culture. However, other historians including Marion A. Kaplan, argue that it was the opposite and Jewish women were the initiators of balancing both Jewish and German culture during Imperial Germany. Jewish women played
11745-651: The name. He grew up in Hanover , where his father later worked as a court-appointed receiver . He counted among his companions Rudolf Augstein , the future proprietor of Der Spiegel . Avnery and his family emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in November 1933, following Adolf Hitler 's rise to power. All his and his wife's relatives who did not leave Germany ended up dying in the Holocaust . He attended school in Nahalal and then in Tel Aviv , leaving after 7th grade, at age 14, in order to help his parents. He started work as
11880-550: The neighborhood, sporting events, and other activities that would mold them into becoming more like their other German peers. For mothers to assimilate into German culture, they took pleasure in reading newspapers and magazines that focused on the fashion styles, as well as other trends that were up and coming for the time and that the Protestant, bourgeois Germans were exhibiting. Similar to this, German-Jewish mothers also urged their children to partake in music lessons, mainly because it
12015-521: The only tool families had to linking Judaism with German culture . They felt it was their job to raise children that would fit in with bourgeois Germany. Women had to balance enforcing German traditions while also preserving Jewish traditions. Women were in charge of keeping kosher and the Sabbath; as well as, teaching their children German speech and dressing them in German clothing. Jewish women attempted to create an exterior presence of German while maintaining
12150-554: The patent of toleration. Some of the crown lands, such as Styria and Upper Austria , forbade any Jews to settle within their territory; in Bohemia, Moravia, and Austrian Silesia many cities were closed to them. The Jews were also burdened with heavy taxes and imposts. In the German Kingdom of Prussia , the government materially modified the promises made in the disastrous year of 1813. The promised uniform regulation of Jewish affairs
12285-546: The pre-existing stereotype put on their children. In addition, Jewish mothers put a large emphasis on proper education for their children in hopes that this would help them grow up to be more respected by their communities and eventually lead to prosperous careers. While Jewish mothers worked tirelessly on ensuring the assimilation of their families, they also attempted to keep the familial aspect of Jewish traditions. They began to look at Shabbat and holidays as less of culturally Jewish days, but more as family reunions of sorts. What
12420-402: The prospect of full equality, but it was not genuinely implemented at that time, and even the promises which had been made were modified. However, such forms of discrimination were no longer the guiding principle for ordering society, but a violation of it. In Austria , many laws restricting the trade and traffic of Jewish subjects remained in force until the middle of the 19th century in spite of
12555-403: The purpose of infusing coherence into the loosely joined parts of his extensive empire, but was not by any means a blind tool of the canonical law . He employed Jews for diplomatic purposes, sending, for instance, a Jew as interpreter and guide with his embassy to Harun al-Rashid . Yet, even then, a gradual change occurred in the lives of the Jews. The Church forbade Christians to be usurers , so
12690-509: The religious development of Jews in the German lands, The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901–1906) draws a direct connection to the great spiritual fortitude later shown by the Jewish communities in the era of the Crusades: He first stimulated the German Jews to study the treasures of their religious literature. This continuous study of the Torah and the Talmud produced such a devotion to Judaism that
12825-578: The resulting political, economic, and social changes were overpowering. Many Jews felt a tension between Jewish tradition and the way they were now leading their lives – religiously – resulting in less tradition. As the insular religious society that reinforced such observance disintegrated, falling away from vigilant observance without deliberately breaking with Judaism was easy. Some tried to reconcile their religious heritage with their new social surroundings; they reformed traditional Judaism to meet their new needs and to express their spiritual desires. A movement
12960-407: The same in 1871. Historian Fritz Stern concludes that by 1900, what had emerged was a Jewish-German symbiosis, where German Jews had merged elements of German and Jewish culture into a unique new one. Marriages between Jews and non-Jews became somewhat common from the 19th century; for example, the wife of German Chancellor Gustav Stresemann was Jewish. However, opportunity for high appointments in
13095-541: The same time once the latter had inadvertently led them to Arafat's hide-out. The operation, "Salt Fish", failed when the PLO managed to lose their trackers in the alleyways of Beirut. Robert Fisk interviewed Avnery at the time, when the Sabra and Shatila massacre took place, and asked him how survivors of the Holocaust and their children could look on as 1,700 Palestinians were massacred. He replied: "I will tell you something about
13230-619: The second-largest Jewish community in Germany. In Württemberg , equality was conceded on 3 December 1861; in Baden on 4 October 1862; in Holstein on 14 July 1863; and in Saxony on 3 December 1868. After the establishment of the North German Confederation by the law of 3 July 1869, all remaining statutory restrictions imposed on the followers of different religions were abolished; this decree
13365-554: The sense that they were modernizing, but they also tried to keep some traditions alive. German Jewish mothers were shifting the way they raised their children in ways such as moving their families out of Jewish neighborhoods, thus changing who Jewish children grew up around and conversed with, all in all shifting the dynamic of the then close-knit Jewish community. Additionally, Jewish mothers wished to integrate themselves and their families into German society in other ways. Because of their mothers, Jewish children participated in walks around
13500-457: The state treasury than did the non-Jews. A special officer, the Judenmeister , was appointed by the government to protect Jewish privileges. The later Carolingians , however, followed the demands of the Church more and more. The bishops continually argued at the synods for including and enforcing decrees of the canonical law , with the consequence that the majority Christian populace mistrusted
13635-533: The storefronts of Jewish shops and offices were smashed and vandalized, and many synagogues were destroyed by fire. Only roughly 214,000 Jews were left in Germany proper (1937 borders) on the eve of World War II . Beginning in late 1941, the remaining community was subjected to systematic deportations to ghettos and, ultimately, to death camps in Eastern Europe . In May 1943, Germany was declared judenrein (clean of Jews; also judenfrei : free of Jews). By
13770-606: The struggle for emancipation in Germany awakened some doubts about the future of Jews in Europe and eventually led to both immigrations to America and Zionism . In Russia, antisemitism ended the Haskalah . Some Jews responded to this antisemitism by campaigning for emancipation, while others joined revolutionary movements and assimilated, and some turned to Jewish nationalism in the form of the Zionist Hibbat Zion movement. Abraham Geiger and Samuel Holdheim were two founders of
13905-568: The subsequently established Germanic kingdoms under the Burgundians and Franks , for ecclesiasticism took root slowly. The Merovingian rulers who succeeded to the Burgundian empire were devoid of fanaticism and gave scant support to the efforts of the Church to restrict the civic and social status of the Jews. Charlemagne (800–814) readily made use of the Roman Catholic Church for
14040-537: The time of Moses Mendelssohn until the 20th century, the community gradually achieved emancipation , and then prospered. In January 1933, some 522,000 Jews lived in Germany. After the Nazis took power and implemented their antisemitic ideology and policies, the Jewish community was increasingly persecuted. About 60% (numbering around 304,000) emigrated during the first six years of the Nazi dictatorship . In 1933, persecution of
14175-688: The total. About 15,000 Jews converted to Christianity between 1871 and 1909. The typical attitude of German liberals towards Jews was that they were in Germany to stay and were capable of being assimilated; anthropologist and politician Rudolf Virchow summarised this position, saying "The Jews are simply here. You cannot strike them dead." This position, however, did not tolerate cultural differences between Jews and non-Jews, advocating instead eliminating this difference. A higher percentage of German Jews fought in World War I than of any other ethnic, religious or political minority in Germany; around 12,000 died in
14310-452: The unification of Germany by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , came their emancipation, but the growing mood of despair among assimilated Jews was reinforced by the antisemitic penetrations of politics. In the 1870s, antisemitism was fueled by the financial crisis and scandals; in the 1880s by the arrival of masses of Ostjuden , fleeing from Russian territories; by the 1890s it was a parliamentary presence, threatening anti-Jewish laws. In 1879
14445-520: The unsavoury prospect of fighting fellow Jews in Russia, France and Britain, for the majority of Jews this severing of ties with Jewish communities in the Entente was accepted part of their spiritual mobilisation for war. After all, the conflict also pitted German Catholics and Protestants against their fellow believers in the east and west. Indeed, for some Jews the fact that Jews were going to war with one another
14580-406: The völkisch movement failed to persuade the government to revoke Jewish emancipation, and in the 1912 Reichstag elections, the parties with völkisch-movement sympathies suffered a temporary defeat. Jews experienced a period of legal equality after 1848. Baden and Württemberg passed the legislation that gave the Jews complete equality before the law in 1861–64. The newly formed German Empire did
14715-461: The war dragged on. However, German Jews did not always feel a personal kinship with Russian Jews. Many were repelled by Eastern Jews, who dressed and behaved differently, as well as being much more religiously devout. Victor Klemperer, a German Jew working for military censors, stated "No, I did not belong to these people, even if one proved my blood relation to them a hundred times over...I belonged to Europe, to Germany, and I thanked my creator that I
14850-408: The way to other countries. By the outbreak of World War I, five million emigrants from Russia had passed through German territory. Around two million Jews passed through the eastern border of Germany between 1880 and 1914 with around 78,000 remaining in Germany. The Jewish population grew from 512,000 in 1871 to 615,000 in 1910, including 79,000 recent immigrants from Russia, just under one percent of
14985-629: The year 321 CE, and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries CE) and High Middle Ages ( circa 1000–1299 CE) when Jewish immigrants founded the Ashkenazi Jewish community . The community survived under Charlemagne , but suffered during the Crusades . Accusations of well poisoning during the Black Death (1346–53) led to mass slaughter of German Jews, while others fled in large numbers to Poland . The Jewish communities of
15120-402: Was 14 years old, in 1946, she being the daughter of the landlord of the house where one of the members of his Semitic nation group lived and where they went to discuss ideas. Around 1951, they crossed paths again when a director of a theatrical troupe introduced her as a possible choice for a photograph required for an ad his magazine intended to run. When he failed, some time later, to turn up for
15255-469: Was a "landmine on the road to peace". He was a secularist and strongly opposed to the Orthodox influence in religious and political life. In 2001, Avnery and his wife Rachel Avnery were honoured with the Right Livelihood Award "for their unwavering conviction, in the midst of violence, that peace can only be achieved through justice and reconciliation". In 2006, settler activist Baruch Marzel called on
15390-421: Was a German-born Israeli writer, journalist, politician, and activist, who founded the Gush Shalom peace movement. A member of the Irgun as a teenager and a veteran of the 1948 Palestine war , Avnery sat for two terms in the Knesset from 1965 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1981. He was also the owner and editor of the news magazine HaOlam HaZeh from 1950 until its closure in 1993. He became known for crossing
15525-428: Was a popular activity among other Germans. Another effort German-Jewish mothers put into assimilating their families was enforcing the importance of manners on their children. It was noted that non-Jewish Germans saw Jews as disrespectful and unable to grasp the concept of time and place. Because of this, Jewish mothers tried to raise their kids having even better manners than the Protestant children in an effort to combat
15660-509: Was among the founders of the Israeli Council for Israeli–Palestinian Peace . Shortly after the group's founding, Avnery was assaulted and stabbed several times. Avnery crossed the front lines and met Yasser Arafat on 3 July 1982, during the Siege of Beirut —said to have been the first time an Israeli met personally with Arafat. He was tracked by an Israeli intelligence team which intended to kill Arafat, even if it meant killing Avnery at
15795-589: Was close to 225,000. By German law, denial of the Holocaust or that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust (§ 130 StGB) is a criminal act; violations can be punished with up to five years of prison. In 2006, on the occasion of the World Cup held in Germany, the then- Interior Minister of Germany Wolfgang Schäuble , urged vigilance against far-right extremism , saying: "We will not tolerate any form of extremism, xenophobia , or antisemitism." In spite of Germany's measures against these groups and antisemites,
15930-549: Was divided into two sections, the first half dealing with indepth muckraking journalistic investigations into corruption, the second half writing up titillating gossip. It featured nudes on its back cover. The editorial office and printer of the paper were subject to three bombing attacks. He was arraigned on charges of sedition, survived two assassination attempts, and, in 1953, an unknown person—in one version he states that soldiers were involved —assaulted him, leaving him with both hands and all his fingers broken. Avnery introduced
16065-472: Was empathy, something he illustrated by an anecdote of watching a film concerning an old woman in the Slovak Republic who does not understand a deportation order, and neighbours assist her in going to the assembly point for departure to the death camps. At the end, when the lights came on, Menachem Begin happened to be sitting in a row in front of them. He stood up, weeping, and came over and kissed her on
16200-404: Was encouraged by German-Jewish newspapers. At first, most emigrants were young, single men from small towns and villages. A smaller number of single women also emigrated. Individual family members would emigrate alone, and then send for family members once they had earned enough money. Emigration eventually swelled, with some German Jewish communities losing up to 70% of their members. At one point,
16335-482: Was extended to all the states of the German empire after the events of 1870. During the General Enlightenment (the 1600s to late 1700s), many Jewish women began to frequently visit non-Jewish salons and to campaign for emancipation . In Western Europe and the German states, observance of Jewish law, Halacha , started to be neglected. In the 18th century, some traditional German scholars and leaders, such as
16470-492: Was formed with a set of religious beliefs, and practices that were considered expected and tradition. Reform Judaism was the first modern response to the Jew's emancipation, though reform Judaism differing in all countries caused stresses of autonomy on both the congregation and individual. Some of the reforms were in the practices: circumcisions were abandoned, rabbis wore vests after Protestant ministers, and instrumental accompaniment
16605-438: Was fueled by immigration from the former Soviet Union , so that at the turn of the 21st century, Germany had the only growing Jewish community in Europe, and the majority of German Jews were Russian -speaking. By 2018, the Jewish population of Germany had leveled off at 116,000, not including non-Jewish members of households; the total estimated enlarged population of Jews living in Germany, including non-Jewish household members,
16740-402: Was introduced, and regular sermons required scientifically trained rabbis. Religious schools were enforced by the state due to a want for the addition of religious structure to secular education of Jewish children. Pulpit oratory started to thrive mainly due to German preachers, such as M. Sachs and M. Joel. Synagogal music was accepted with the help of Louis Lewandowski . Part of the evolution of
16875-474: Was involved in defending Judaism in print. In 1783, he published Jerusalem, or On Religious Power and Judaism . Speculating that no religious institution should use coercion and emphasized that Judaism does not coerce the mind through dogma, he argued that through reason, all people could discover religious philosophical truths, but what made Judaism unique was its revealed code of legal, ritual, and moral law. He said that Jews must live in civil society, but only in
17010-652: Was judged too young to engage directly in actions such as killing Jews suspected of being informers for the British authorities, and bombing Arab markets. He changed his surname to Avnery, a Hebraic rendering of Werner, to honour the memory of his only brother, who died serving in the British Army in Gondar on the East African front in 1941. When Avnery was 16 years old, the Second World War broke out; it sparked in him
17145-563: Was once viewed as a more religious event became more of a social gathering of relatives. The beginning of the Reform Movement in Judaism was emphasized by David Philipson , who was the rabbi at the largest Reform congregation. The increasing political centralization of the late 18th and early 19th centuries undermined the societal structure that perpetuated traditional Jewish life. Enlightenment ideas began to influence many intellectuals, and
17280-475: Was proof of the normality of German-Jewish life; they could no longer be considered a minority with transnational loyalties but loyal German citizens. German Jews often broke ties with Jews of other countries; the Alliance Israélite Universelle, a French organisation that was dedicated to protecting Jewish rights, saw a German Jewish member quit once the war started, declaring that he could not, as
17415-399: Was said to have acquired the Jews as his private property . The German emperors apparently claimed this right of possession more for the sake of taxing the Jews than of protecting them. A variety of such taxes existed. Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor , was a prolific creator of new taxes. In 1342, he instituted the "golden sacrificial penny" and decreed that every year all the Jews should pay
17550-568: Was the Mapai establishment. Although he retained his seat in the 1969 election , the party disintegrated and Avnery renamed it Meri . Although it failed to win any seats in the 1973 elections , Avnery returned to the Knesset as a member of the Sheli party after the 1977 election , but did not retain his seat in the 1981 election . He was later involved in the Progressive List for Peace . He wrote
17685-468: Was the period from the beginning of the 900s and evidently much earlier. Following the barbaric Dark Ages , a relatively safe and enlightened Carolingian period brought peace and prosperity to Mainz and much of central–western Europe. For the next 400 years, Mainz attracted many Jews as trade flourished. The greatest Jewish teachers and rabbis flocked to the Rhine. Their teachings, dialogues, decisions, and influence propelled Mainz and neighboring towns along
17820-416: Was the principle. The concept of citizenship was mostly restricted to cities, especially Free Imperial Cities . No general franchise existed, which remained a privilege for the few, who had inherited the status or acquired it when they reached a certain level of taxed income or could afford the expense of the citizen's fee ( Bürgergeld ). Citizenship was often further restricted to city dwellers affiliated to
17955-424: Was time and again postponed. In the period between 1815 and 1847, no less than 21 territorial laws affecting Jews in the older eight provinces of the Prussian state were in effect, each having to be observed by part of the Jewish community. At that time, no official was authorized to speak in the name of all Prussian Jews, or Jewry in most of the other 41 German states , let alone for all German Jews. Nevertheless,
18090-460: Was used: pipe organs . In addition, the traditional Hebrew prayer book was replaced by German text, and reform synagogues began being called temples which were previously considered the Temple of Jerusalem. Reform communities composed of similar beliefs and Judaism changed at the same pace as the rest of society had. The Jewish people have adapted to religious beliefs and practices to the meet the needs of
18225-415: Was wounded twice, the second time, toward the end of the war, seriously; he spent the last months of his army service convalescing and was discharged in the summer of 1949. Though it was forbidden for soldiers to write for newspapers, Avnery wrote articles on his frontline experiences during the 1948 war. Shortly after his stint with that newspaper, Avnery (with Shalom Cohen and two others) in 1950 bought
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