Lecture by Jutta Dick as part of the Judaic Public Lecture Series
Jutta Dick has worked as an assistant professor at the Memorial of the Old Synagogue in Essen and at the Salomon Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History at the University of Duisburg. From 1995-2021 she was director of the Moses Mendelssohn Academy Foundation in Halberstadt, for which she developed the concept of teaching in an authentic place with the Berend Lehmann Museum of Jewish History and Culture.
The lecture will present the activities of the Moses Mendelssohn Academy, which was built in 1995 on the site of the former Jewish Community Centre in Halberstadt. It focuses mainly on teaching the basics of Judaism and Jewish history and culture in the authentic setting of Halberstadt, which has retained its medieval topography and has three Jewish cemeteries and numerous architectural reminders of the destruction of Jewish life.