When Antisemitism Is Carved Into Church

A sculpture outside of a Wittenberg church where Martin Luther once preached shows three small people in pointy hats, meant to be Jews, sucking from the teats of a large female pig. A fourth figure stands behind the sow, lifting up the pig's tail, and looking at its butt. The obscene and bizarre image has been there since at least 1290. Luther commented approvingly on the Judensau, or "Jews' sow," in the 1500s. And since 2018, a German convert to Judaism has been fighting in court to have it removed.