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Teaching materials on Jewish emancipation in Baden

As part of the project on Jewish emancipation in Baden, various thematic approaches were developed that can be used as free modules in history lessons. The teaching materials each offer background information and teaching suggestions for teachers as well as information texts, various sources and worksheets with suggested activities for pupils and recommended reading. They have been designed primarily for teaching at upper secondary level.

Please be aware that all the teaching materials collected here are only available in German by now.

To what extent did naming regulations and the obligation to adopt fixed surnames act as a catalyst for Jewish emancipation? What is a "Jewish" name anyway? What role do naming, the use of names and a change of name play in one's own identity?

Keywords

Legal history, administrative history, emancipation legislation, Edict of Baden on the Jews, genealogy
Places: Mannheim

The cause, course and resolution of the riots against Jews are examined using a sociological definition of the pogrom. The unit is particularly suitable for project work with independent research on the Internet, as helpful databases and further sources are displayed.

Keywords

Revolution and counter-movement, social history, riots, research into violence, anti-Semitism, civil rights
Sources: Newspaper, police report, village chronicle, autobiography
Places: Bretten, Eppingen, Jöhlingen, Heidelsheim

Geissmar's memoirs provide rare insights into the life, thoughts and feelings of a Jewish woman in Baden in the 19th century. At the same time, her life story is also a unique source of social and everyday history, illustrating Jewish life in the countryside in the midst of a Christian neighbourhood as well as girls' education and the role of women in the process of cultural modernization and bourgeoisie.

Keywords

History of everyday life, history of education, female education, girls' education, Christian-Jewish neighbourhood, bourgeoisie, modernization, bourgeoisification
Source: Autobiography
Places: Eppingen, Constance

How did the change in Jewish education towards joint education with children of Christian denominations take place? What difficulties arose on the part of Judaism, the church and the state?

Keywords

19. History of discourse, history of education, school policy, coeducation, nineteenth century
Authors: Johann Ludwig Ewald, Moses Büdinger

What is a mikvah? And why, at the beginning of the 19th century, were there not only Jewish demands for its modernization, but in some German states, including Baden, the mikvahs were even supervised by the health authorities?

Keywords

Religious history, Cultural history, Religious practice, Ritual purity, Health & hygiene, 19th century

During a leaflet campaign in the Bavarian spa town of Dürkheim in the summer of 1847, two dissimilar activists from Mannheim are arrested: the banker's wife Friederike Cohen and the exmatriculated gymnast Carl Blind. The political message of the pamphlet "German Hunger and the German Princes" and the portrayal of the two early socialists in the Baden media will be explored in source exercises. The public politicization process in autumn 1847 is the focus of the teaching unit; the unusual life of the freethinker Cohen, later married to Blind, serves as a biographical supplement.

Keywords

Pre-March, early socialists, political women, press and censorship, representation of gender, famine crisis, political emigration
Sources: Newspaper, pamphlet, historiography
Places: Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Speyer, Bad Dürkheim, Bavaria, France, England
Persons: Friederike Blind-Cohen, Carl Blind, Gustav Struve, Anna Ettlinger, Karl Marx, Lola Montez, Ludwig I of Bavaria,