10 Friday, February 10, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS =11111=1111•=1111111111MEN111111111111111111110=1•111111111MMIIIN GOING ON VACATION? I I An Ancient German City Has History of Repression START AT YOUR FRONT DOOR By RABBI ALLAN BLUSTEIN German pogroms and was on his way to the Holy Land Hospital where he was arrested in Rothenberg ob der Italy by officers of Emperor and avoid all the driving and airport has- Tauber stands today as a Rudolph and imprisoned in sle. Franconian jewel in modern the fortress of Colmar. Re- Germany. Because of its fusing to be ransomed by his We can arrange to pick you up on your almost perfect preservation co-religionists (so as not to return. as a medieval walled city, it set a precedent for anti- attracts hundreds of Semitic bigots), the valiant thousands of tourists every sage elected to remain im- year. Some of those tourists prisoned, continuing his are U.S. servicemen of the work in Torah until his Jewish faith who, stationed death in 1293. Special rates with this ad in the immediate vicinity, This refusal to be ran- also make their pilgrimage somed proved of little avail to this site where once because a wealthy Jew flourished the "Light of the named Alexander Ben Sol- Exile," Rabbi Meir ben omon redeemed his body for 559-1972 Boruch, the leading To- burial in the Jewish cemet- 559-1974 saphist of the 13th Century. ery at Worms. Today, both The Maharani fled the graves lie side by side. During the Rindfleisch persecutions of 1298, some 140 Jewish com- munities in Franconia (including Rothenburg) were destroyed. The in- domitable Jews returned 1984, 9 days, April 16 —April' 24 again to Rothenburg and re-established a commu- nity there in 1346. 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