Thursday 3 April 2025, 4.30 pm, Book presentation: 'Let the world be witness'
Author reading and discussion with Prof. Dr. S. Koller
It was a world that will never rise again – the world of the Jewish shtetl. Until the Nazi era, more than four-fifths of all Jews in Europe lived in Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine and neighbouring areas.
The shtetls went up in flames, countless massacres were committed, millions of Jews were murdered. The writer Dovid Bergelson, who came from the shtetl of Ochrimovo in northern Ukraine and wrote in Yiddish, survived this period in the Soviet Union.
With a new edition of his stories entitled ‘Die Welt möge Zeuge sein’ (Let the world be witness), Sabine Koller, professor of Slavic-Jewish studies in Regensburg, now makes it possible once again to listen to the lost world of Eastern European Jewry and the Yiddish language. The village synagogue in Vöhl, restored by a citizens' initiative and converted into a cultural centre, provides the perfect setting for this.
Moderation: Klaus Brill
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