Lecture and concert in memoriam

Aviya Nachshon is the main cantor in the renowned congregation “Kfar Shmaryahu” of Herzliya, Israel and a descendant of the great cantor Benjamin Ungar of the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv and. He is a graduate of the Tel Aviv Cantorial Institute, where he studied with cantors such as Naftali Hershtik sel. A. and his son Shraga Hershtik. He was also taught by the maestros Raymond Goldstein and Yotam Segal. Aviya Nachshon has prayed and sung in numerous congregations and at numerous events around the world. He was also a chazan (cantor) in Budapest. He is currently about to complete his master’s degree in electrical engineering and physics. Aviya Nachshon lives with his family in Israel.

Corinna Luedtke is a trained bookseller, author, project artist and painter. She is the winner of the competition organized by the city of Hamelin under the motto Jews in Germany – yesterday and today. From 2009 to 2011, she supervised the long-term project “Writing against forgetting” with pupils from the Albert Einstein School in Laatzen. Corinna Luedtke is a member of the Association of German Writers and the Kurt Hiller Society.

Dr. Peter Schulze studied social sciences and history in Hanover. With his research, publications and exhibitions on Hanover’s city history and the history of Jewish Hanover, he is one of the most important experts in the field.

The North German Synagogue Choir emerged from the original European Synagogue Choir. This was a semi-professional mixed choir based in Hanover, which was dedicated to the rehearsal and performance of sacred Jewish music. Since its foundation in 2009 by Prof. Andor Izsák and under his direction, the choir has given over one hundred highly acclaimed concerts in Germany and other European countries, focusing on works whose sheet music and recordings were destroyed and forgotten in many places during the Third Reich, especially during the Kristallnacht in November 1938.

Martin Lüssenhop has been the artistic director of the Oratorienchor Burgwedel e.V. since 2004. The trained school musician is an accomplished bass-baritone, freelance piano and singing teacher and organist. He also has many years of choral experience – including as a conductor and musical assistant in various choirs, including the North German Synagogue Choir.

Musical introduction | Norddeutscher Synagogalchor
Alfred Rose: Ma towu (How good are your tents, Jacob)

Speech | Eliah Sakakushev-von Bismarck, Villa Seligmann

Lecture Dr. Peter Schulze | Part 1: The New Synagogue of 1870 as a place of prayer and teaching

Music | Cantor Aviya Nachshon and North German Synagogal Choir
Music by Israel Alter

Memorial Benny Maissner | Corinna Luedtke, reading
Kel Male Rachamim (G’d full of mercy), Cantor Aviya Nachshon

Lecture Dr. Peter Schulze | Part 2: The destruction of the New Synagogue in 1938

Closing remarks | Ministry of Culture and Science of Lower Saxony

Musical finale | Cantor Aviya Nachshon and North German Synagogal Choir
Alfred Rose: Al hakol

Vin d’honneur | Visit to the exhibition | Exchange of ideas