On our tour of "Jewish" Hamburg, where it became clear that the city is less interested in preserving remnants of its past than in constructing a beautiful new (and extremely well-planned city), we were struck by the erasure of buildings or sites that marked the long, vibrant life of Hamburg's Jews. At the corner of the old Jewish section of the city, however, we happened upon a magnificent mural:
The broken fragments are populated by sites and people and signs of the real life that Jews in Hamburg lived (especially in the post-Emancipation period). The large section on the bottom is filled with a poem by Nobel Laureate Nelly Sachs.
A recent article in
The Jewish Exponent does our experience some justice.
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