"Who builds a house wants to stay," Salomon Korn said during the festive inauguration of the new building of the Jewish Community Frankfurt in 1986. A year earlier, members of the Jewish Community Frankfurt had occupied the stage of the Kammerspiele to prevent the premiere of an antisemitic play. The 1980s are remembered as a time of Jewish emancipation and courage, and are considered today as a turning point in the self-conception of Jews in Frankfurt and the Federal Republic of Germany.
In a joint discussion, Barbara Bišický-Ehrlich, Eugen El, Elisha Kaminer, and Leon Joskowitz explore the question of the current state of self-conception among Jewish artists and the Jewish community in Frankfurt. Does the emancipatory spirit of that time still live, or are the signs pointing to withdrawal. What is the current situation of Frankfurt and its Jewish men and women?
