Judensau in Bad Wimpfen
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Date
February 2009
Description
A Judensau [Jew's sow] statue at the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Bad Wimpfen. The Judensau was an antisemitic motif that emerged in medieval and early modern Europe (especially Germany), that showed Jews engaging in obscene or degrading interactions with a female pig (sow), an animal considered impure according to Jewish dietary laws (kashrut)
Type
Photograph
Region
Global
Topic
Global History and Geography, Jewish History
Repository
Peter Schmelzle Private Collection
Source
Courtesy of Peter Schmelzle. Photograph under Creative Commons License CC BY-SA 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. Accessed at Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wimpfen-stiftskirche-judens.jpg
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