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The Architecture of Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museums

Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2012
Memorial architecture faces the special challenge of commemorating the absent; Jewish museums deal with an extra problematic history of high sensitivity. This paper examines and compares Daniel Libeskind’s architectural solutions to the cultural and political challenges in each of the three Jewish museums that he designed in Berlin, San Francisco and ...
Hao Jiang, Si Jia Jiang
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Building after Auschwitz: Jewish architecture and the memory of the Holocaust [PDF]

open access: yesChoice Reviews Online, 2012
Book Review of Building after Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust, by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld. ISBN 9780300169140. Reviewed by Suzanne Rackover.
Suzanne Rackover
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Institutionalized Experiment: The Politics of ?Jewish Architecture? in Germany

Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, and Society, 2005
he eruv, both as a concept and as a pragmatic tool within everydayJewish life, can be seen as the typical architectonic and urbanistic response to the condition of diaspora. Germany represents perhaps the diasporic condition par excellence. One would therefore expect the installment of eruvin to be a recurring feature of urban life.
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