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Art from the Documenta 15 exhibit in Berlin, Germany. Source: Screenshot.

The ‘Judensau,’ then and now

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Two major news stories to hit the headlines in Germany this month focused rather strikingly on negative depictions of Jews in works of art, raising once more the question of whether these visual displays...
A view of the anti-Semitic German folk art engraving known as "Judensau," on the Wittenberg Parish Church in Germany. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

What should be done with the ‘Judensau’?

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“Here in Wittenberg, in our parish church, there is a sow carved into the stone under which lie young pigs and Jews who are sucking,” wrote Martin Luther, the founder of the Protestant faith...