Bavarian Research Center for Interreligious Discourses

Our interfaith calendar shows the synagogue in the city of Fürth in January. The local Jewish community has an eventful history that is deeply rooted in the town's history. The first Jewish inhabitants in Fürth were mentioned as early as 1440, and from 1528 the community played an important role in ...

At the end of 2024, the BaFID Interfaith Calendar was presented to representatives of the participating religious communities, members of the Board of Trustees, and numerous other personalities. The calendar, which combines the most important festivals and holidays of Christianity, Judaism, and I...

At the invitation of the University of Nizwa Prof. Georges Tamer, the founding director of BaFID, visited Oman from 13 to 20 December 2024. During his stay, he met Mr Muḥammad al-Mālkī, the director of the Department of Interfaith Dialogue and Religious Tolerance at the Ministry of Endowments and Re...

On 13 December 2024, the granddaughter of Fürth doctor and educator Dr Isaak Hallemann, Mrs Gal Batia Gabriel, visited the synagogue in Fürth. Accompanied by her husband and other acquaintances, she traveled to Fürth as part of a trip to Europe and talked about her father's memories of the Hallemann...

How religions encounter each other characterizes not only interreligious coexistence but also the self-image of the community. Religions may perceive the "religious other" as foreign or familiar. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are related to each other, so individual ideas of the "other religion" ...

The 7th conference of the Network Jewish Franconia took place on 24 November 2024 at the Jewish Museum Franconia in Fürth. In his workshop, Dr Nathanael Riemer, a research associate specialising in Judaism, discussed how life stories can be reconstructed from various documents.

“How is the term jihad to be understood?” These and other questions will be at the BaFID Instagram channel discussed. It is a key component of the “WissenMachtStark” project, which was launched and funded (01.12.2023 to 31.12.2024) by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Home Affairs. The In...