The day after the colloquium, the organiser Mojmír Jeřábek and Táňa Klementová have organised a trip to Boskovice to visit Hermann Ungar’s birthplace and tour the old Jewish ghetto. We are accompanied by a group of elderly members of the German Club from Brno.  A number of the older generation still have German as a first language (as did  my family and most assimilated Jews) – a legacy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Continue reading →