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Mainz (dpa / lrs) - A concert tour with Israeli musicians, a school competition for all ninth and tenth grades and a traveling exhibition on Jewish life: These are three of more than 70 events in the festival year "1700 years of Jewish life in Rhineland-Palatinate".
About 35 partners - including the state center for political education, the state government, municipalities, adult education centers and Jewish communities - from the federal state of the Schum sites Worms, Mainz and Speyer take part in the festival year, as the anti-Semitism commissioner of the state government, Dieter Burgard, on Tuesday said in Mainz.
"We want to show that Judaism has been an important part of our culture for many centuries," said Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD).
It is also about the present and the future of Jewish life.
"Together we make it clear that any form of anti-Semitism has no place with us."
The chairman of the regional association of Jewish communities in Germany, Avadislav Avadiev, said he hoped for an impetus for a new way of working together and for the dismantling of clichés and prejudices.
Schum stands for the Hebrew first letters of the three cities.
This summer, Unesco will decide whether the Jewish sites of the Middle Ages will become World Heritage.
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The festival year is organized by a specially founded association in Cologne (# 2021JLID).
The general secretary of the association, Sylvia Löhrmann, said: "We want to pay tribute to 1,700 years of Jewish life, overcome prejudices, strengthen cooperation and combat this growing anti-Semitism."
The managing director of the association, Andrei Kovacs, added: "Our goal is that Jewish life in Germany becomes part of normality."
More than 1000 events are planned nationwide.
A decree of the Roman Emperor Constantine from the year 321 is considered to be the oldest surviving written testimony to Jewish life in the area of today's Germany.
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