Edna Brocke

13:30 Workshop 3 September 1999

The Present - Interface between Past and Future

The workshop presents two projects of the memorial site "Alte Synagoge" in Essen. "Lehrhaus für Kinder" teaches about Jewishness as religious and national identity and works with the question why and how the building came to be used in the present way. Older students and adults have the opportunity to trace the biography of a murdered person. These summaries become part of the exhibition.

Edna Brocke was born in Jerusalem in 1943. She majored in Politics and Anglistics at the Hebrew University with Jewish studies (B.A) and received her MA from the University of Regensburg. She has lived in Germany since 1968. Since 1997 she has taught religion to the Jewish community in Regensburg and in Krefeld. She is a Lecturer in Jewish studies at Bochum University in the Ruhr, as well as the University of Essen. She has been active in theological dialogues between Christians and Jews. Since 1988, she has been the head of the Old Synagogue Memorial in Essen. She has received honorary doctorates from the Church College in Neuendettelsau and the Ruhr University (1997). She is a member of the editorial group of the Journal 'Church and Israel' which was started in 1986.