Würzburg
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Oct 31, 2026
Yehuda GebererHOST
And the second criteria he wanted, of which rabbis he was including in his pamphlet, is that he wanted for his campaign was that they had actually seen and tested the matzah machine, unlike most of all of those rabbis who had forbidden it, who forbade it without ever examining it personally, which is one of the Sholem HaShav's main issues with those who had forbidden it.
Yehuda GebererHOST
On that list of German rabbis who the Sholem HaShav galvanized in support for machine matzahs was Reb Yaakov Etlinger, the Aruch Laner, Reb Yitzhak Toiv Bamberger of Würzburg, and several other A-list German rabbis of the 19th century.
Yehuda GebererHOST
It's a very interesting story.
Yehuda GebererHOST
You can check that out, that episode.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
They knew that they were the advanced guard of Protestantism.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
On the one flank was the Catholic Duchy of Bavaria and the bishoprics of Würzburg and Bamberg.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
On the other flank were the ecclesiastical electorates on the Rhine and the Moselle, the bishoprics of Worms, Speyer and Strasbourg, the Austrian lands in Schwabia and Alsace, and the long line of the Spanish frontier in Franche-Comté and the Netherlands, garrisoned by the troops of the first military monarchy in Europe.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
What wonder if men so endangered were in haste to cut the knot which threatened to strangle them, and to meet the enemy by flying in his face rather than by awaiting the onslaught which they believed to be inevitable.
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The inhabitants suffered terribly, but he was strong enough to maintain his position for a time.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Nor was he content with standing on the defensive.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
He seized a post within the frontiers of Bohemia, and threatened to harry the lands of the Bishop of Bamberg and Würzburg if he did not withdraw his troops from the army of the League.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
He then fell upon Leuchtenberg and carried off the Landgrave a prisoner to his camp.
ChrisHOST
In 2013, the Spessart Museum opened its own Snow White Room, explicitly inviting visitors to work out for themselves what in the lore story is madness, meaning joke and reality.
ChrisHOST
That same year, signs went up on the A3 highway between Würzburg and Aschaffenburg advertising Lohr as the Snow White town.
ChrisHOST
And in 2014, the town paid 110,000 euros for a modern Snow White sculpture for its new civic hall.
ChrisHOST
A student responded with graffiti showing the figure chasing dwarves with a dagger drawn.
Aubrey HershGUEST
Like this foreigner centuries later, he was a trained physician while being a leading rabbinic figure.
Aubrey HershGUEST
And he studied in Germany under Rav Yacov of Wurzburg and in Vienna under Rabbi Wigder Hakein, who was also one of the rebus of the Marama Rottenberg.
Aubrey HershGUEST
And he returns to Rome.
Aubrey HershGUEST
He opens a Besa Medrash.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Accordingly, the Dukes of Mecklenburg had such agents in Hamburg.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Bishop John Philip of Würzburg was in 1700 served by Moses Elkin in Frankfurt.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
This activity opened new channels for the Jews, the enterprising dealer who provided jewels for her ladyship, liveries for the court chamberlain, and dainties for the head cook who was also quite willing to negotiate a loan.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Frankfurt and Hamburg, with their large Jewish population, had many such financial agents who acted for ruling princes living at a distance.
Robin WarderHOST
Gump became involved in a far-right paramilitary organization called the Freikorps Oberland and was suspected of being involved in the murders of nine farmers in the Upper Silesia region of Poland during a series of uprisings which occurred during that time period.
Robin WarderHOST
On April 9th, 1922, just nine days after the Hinterkaifeck murders took place, a warrant was issued for Gump's arrest for his role in the Upper Silesia murders, but it does not sound like he was ever brought to justice for this, and he died in Würzburg in February of 1944 at the age of 54.
Robin WarderHOST
Well, eight years later, in 1952, Adolf's brother, Anton Gump, was arrested by the Munich police.
Robin WarderHOST
Over a decade earlier, before she passed away, Adolf and Anton's sister, Christenz, had allegedly told two different priests that Adolf made a deathbed confession that he and Anton were both responsible for the Hinterkaifeck murders.
Roy AtkinGUEST
Oh, really?
Shawn RecordHOST
Yeah, Würzburg is where the bishop and all the people live.
Roy AtkinGUEST
They're really tied into it.
Roy AtkinGUEST
But she was Catholic, had been Catholic.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Accordingly, the Dukes of Mecklenburg had such agents in Hamburg.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Bishop John Philip of Würzburg was in 1700 served by Moses Elkin in Frankfurt.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
This activity opened new channels for the Jews, the enterprising dealer who provided jewels for her ladyship, liveries for the court chamberlain, and dainties for the head cook who was also quite willing to negotiate a loan.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Frankfurt and Hamburg, with their large Jewish population, had many such financial agents who acted for ruling princes living at a distance.
Jeff BlanchardHOST
part of Germany
Frank CoxGUEST
were you guys in? Near Würzburg.
Frank CoxGUEST
Würzburg.
Frank CoxGUEST
Okay.
Frank CoxGUEST
Bavaria.
Florian ScheibeinGUEST
What was I just going to say there? Sorry.
Florian ScheibeinGUEST
Even Kilmacalogue, I didn't realize this myself, but one of my German aunts, she lives near Wurzburg, and they have a whole thing about St. Killian.
Florian ScheibeinGUEST
It's their patron saint.
Florian ScheibeinGUEST
They have loads of... statues to St. Killian and they celebrate St. Killian on the same day.
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