Jewish State Community of Thuringia

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The small synagogue of Erfurt at the city coin 5
New synagogue at Max-Cars-Platz 1
The inside of the small synagogue .
Inscription: דע לפני מי אתה עומד Know who you are standing before (from sayings of the fathers )
Alexander Nachama (2018)

The Jewish State Community of Thuringia ( Hebrew הקהילה היהודית ארפורט) has its seat in the New Synagogue in Erfurt and is a corporation under public law . With 850 (as of 2010) members, it is one of the smaller Jewish communities in Germany . In addition to the headquarters in Erfurt, there are branch offices in Jena (170 members) and Nordhausen (40 members).

history

In 1948/1949 many Jews emigrated from the "land of perpetrators". The reason for this was the establishment of the State of Israel in May 1948 and a new American immigration law in June 1948. After the dissolution of other communities founded in Thuringia after 1945, the Erfurt community remained the only remaining Jewish community in Thuringia. Today two thirds of the 750 parishioners live in Erfurt. In Erfurt there is the New Synagogue , which was built on the site of the Great Synagogue at Max-Cars-Platz 1 (formerly Juri-Gagarin-Ring 16 and Kartäuserring), which was destroyed in 1938 and was the only synagogue in the GDR and was inaugurated on August 31, 1952, the small synagogue at Stadtmünze 5 and the old synagogue at Michaelisstrasse 3/4, both of which serve as museums today.

The relationship between the Free State of Thuringia and the Jewish communities there was regulated in a State Church Treaty of November 1, 1993. This contract was approved by a law of December 7, 1993. This was last renewed by a contract dated February 18, 1999 and again approved by a law of April 16, 1999. Accordingly, the regional association is the contact person for Jewish matters in relation to the state.

From October 2010, the Thuringian Jewish State Community had a rabbi again after 72 years. Konstantin Pal was born in Moscow in 1979, came to Germany in 1989 and was ordained at the Abraham Geiger College in 2010 . From 2010 to summer 2014 he was the state rabbi of the Jewish state community of Thuringia. Konstantin Pal has been head of the cultural administration of the Jewish community in Berlin since 2014 and coordinates the SchazMaz program (= abbreviation for "Schaliach Zibur" and "More Zedek", which is the training of prayer leaders and religion teachers) of the General Rabbinical Conference in Germany .

From October 2015 to August 2018 Benjamin Kochan was the rabbi of the Jewish State Community of Thuringia. He was born in Magadan in 1988 , came to Germany in 2002, studied at the rabbinical seminary in Berlin , where he obtained his semicha in 2015 . Erfurt was Kochan's first rabbinical position. He is a full member of the Orthodox Rabbinical Conference .

Alexander Nachama (son of Sara Nachama and Andreas Nachama , grandson of Estrongo Nachama ) has been a rabbi of the Jewish State Community of Thuringia since September 2018 . Alexander Nachama is a member of the General Rabbinical Conference Germany .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our regional associations on site - Jüdische Landesgemeinde Thuringia (Erfurt) Kdö.R. In: Zentralratderjuden.de. Retrieved May 27, 2018 .
  2. ↑ thueringen.de (PDF)
  3. ↑ Monika Grübel, Georg Mölich: Jewish life in the Rhineland. From the Middle Ages to the present. Verlag Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005, p. 284.
  4. ↑ alemannia-judaica.de
  5. ^ Law on the State Treaty between the Free State of Thuringia and the Jewish State Community of Thuringia of December 7, 1993. (No longer available online.) In: www.bmi.bund.de. Federal Ministry of the Interior ..., December 7, 1993, archived from the original on April 19, 2018 ; accessed on April 18, 2018 .
  6. ↑ http://ark.de/rabbiner/#KonstantinPal
  7. ↑ Thuringia's new rabbi made a conscious decision to go to Erfurt. In: www.thueringer-allgemeine.de. October 27, 2015, accessed on April 18, 2018 : "Benjamin Kochan is the new rabbi of the Jewish State Community of Thuringia."
  8. ↑ http://www.jlgt.org/kontakt.html
  9. ↑ http://www.ordonline.de/rabbiner/rabbiner-benjamin-kochan/
  10. ^ First Jewish kindergarten in Thuringia? The new rabbi of the Jewish community of Thuringia, Alexander Nachama, wants to set up a Jewish kindergarten in Erfurt. In: mdr.de. November 9, 2018, accessed on February 16, 2019 (Thuringia has a new state rabbi).
  11. ^ Tobias Schrörs: Jewish community in Erfurt. Hope for a good and sweet year. In: faz.net. September 11, 2018, accessed February 16, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Tomas Gärtner: Rabbi Alexander Nachama leaves Dresden. In: dnn.de. April 28, 2018, accessed on February 16, 2019 (... and will be the new state rabbi in Thuringia).
  13. ^ General rabbinical conference. Rabbi Alexander Nachama. In: ark.de. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .