Germany's top court ruled it will allow an antisemitic medieval display to stay on a church, marking another setback for Jews who seek the removal of the sculpture.
The Federal Court of Justice, Germany's top appeals court, upheld rulings from lower courts that dismissed the case, saying there was no breach of the law in the St. Marien Church in Wittenberg, Germany, displaying the sculpture.
The Central Council of Jews said it understood the court's decision not to remove the sculpture, but it added that the explanatory display under it is not enough, with Council President Josef Schuster saying the church's defamation of the Jews"must be a thing of the past once and for all."The Judensau is one of about two dozen similar sculptures from the Middle Ages that are still displayed on churches around Germany and Europe.
Wittenberg, Germany, was also the town where Martin Luther, an influential German priest in the 1500s, nailed his theses challenging Catholicism to a church door in 1517, which led to the Protestant Reformation in Germany.
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Anti-Jewish medieval sculpture can stay on church, top German court rulesGermany's top court ruled it will allow an antisemitic medieval display to stay on a church, marking another setback for Jews who seek the removal of the sculpture.
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