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The sculpture, a Judensau (Jew sow), adorns the facade of the town church in Wittenberg, also known as the Stadtkirche.
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The sculpture is one of about two dozen similar sculptures from the Middle Ages that still feature on churches around Germany and elsewhere in Europe.
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