Germany is currently experiencing an intense debate about the
reconstruction of synagogues that were destroyed under Nazi rule in
the 1930s, and the related search for an appropriate architectural
expression of Jewish life and culture in the country’s major
cities today. This book, which results from a collaboration between
the Technical Universities of Darmstadt and Dresden, Hamburg’s
HafenCity University, and the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, vividly
contributes to this discussion. The Synagogue Project features
designs for new synagogues replacing the lost buildings on
Berlin’s Fraenkelufer and on Joseph-Carlebach-Platz and
Poolstrasse in Hamburg by students at the participating
universities. They illustrate the search for a structural
expression that can provide space for Jewish life and worship in
the future. In conversation, members of Jewish communities and
Franz-Josef Höing, representing the City of Hamburg’s department
of urban development and housing, explain their views on the past
and future of synagogues in Hamburg and Berlin. Mirjam Wenzel,
director of the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt, Salomon Korn, former
vice-president of Germany’s Central Council of Jews, Rabbi Edward
van Voolen, and Swiss architect Roger Diener also contribute to the
discussion on the history and significance of spaces for Jewish
life, culture, and religion in German cities. Text in English and
German.
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