Rolf Verleger & Nathanja Hüttenmeister (Ed.)

House of Eternity – בית־עולם

The Stockelsdorf Jewish cemetery. E-Book

This illustrated ebook documents the 36 preserved Jewish gravestones in Stockelsdorf, including a transcription, translation and commentary of the grave inscriptions. A historical article starts off the book by shedding light on the political and economic circumstances under which Jewish families settled 200 years ago in the estates that form today’s Stockelsdorf. Their struggle for legal recognition shows great perseverance and tells of a symbiotic relationship with the Christian parishioners, who benefited economically from the Jewish moneychangers and traders. In the small community, the great politics of the time set an example: the treatment of Jewish settlers by the authorities was strongly influenced by the liberal influence of the „French period“ in Lübeck and Hamburg, and in the ensuing restoration the Jewish families were again banned from settling.

 

The presentation of the eventful history allows an informed look at the gravestones presented in the second part of the book. Information on symbols, mourning rites and the structure of the cemetery further contextualize this. The illustrated book fills a gap in the research of the Jewish community in Stockelsdorf and sheds light on the historical conditions for Jewish families in Schleswig-Holstein around 1800.

 

Contains 14 works of art by René Blättermann.


Die deutschsprachige Version des Buches, Haus der Ewigkeit, wurde 2019 veröffentlicht und ist leider vergriffen.

 

Solivagus Praeteritum

1st edition. E-book. 164 pages. PDF with detailed bookmarks. 3 maps, 48 photographs and 14 works of art.
Publication date: 29.11.2024

Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-947064-22-9

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This title is also available in ProQuest’s Ebook Central.

Keywords

Transcription / Hebrew / 19th century / Mori / Fackenburg / Lübeck / Jewish Studies / Mazewa / Moisling

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Prof. Dr. Rolf Verleger was a psychologist and researcher of EEG (Electroencephalography) at the University of Lübeck (1988–2017). He heard of the Stockelsdorf cemetery through his commitment to rebuilding the Jewish community of Schleswig-Holstein. He wrote the original German version of this book in the spring of 2019. He died in 2021. In April 2022, he was posthumously awarded the City of Lübeck’s Erich Mühsam Prize.


Nathanja Hüttenmeister has completed courses in Jewish, Arabic and Islamic studies and medieval history at the Universities of Berlin, Tübingen and Jerusalem. For over 15 years she has been a research associate at the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where she specializes in epigraphy. The Hebrew gravestone inscriptions in this book are the result of her expertise. She also provided copious advice and corrections for the rest of the original German version of the book.

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