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The Mind of the Nation: The Debate about Völkerpsychologie, 1851-1900 [PDF]

, 2010
Völkerpsychologie or ‘folk psychology’ has a bad reputation amongst historians. It is either viewed as a pseudo-science not worth studying in detail, or considered a ‘failure’ since, in contrast to sociology, psychology, and anthropology, it never ...
Klautke, E
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Jewish Museum of Berlin:

idea journal, 2006
Architecture provides the site for this exploration of the relationship between museums and performance, which focuses on the Jewish Museum of Berlin. Between 1999 and 2001 the Jewish Museum operated solely as a venue for architectural tours.
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Les migrations au musée ! Sciences sociales et muséographie sont-elles complémentaires ?

Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 2016
Museums related to Migrations or Diasporas, in a context of rising xenophobia, reinforce the idea how migrations are full part of National Histories. As part of this project of anniversary volume of REMI, we thought it would be interesting to analyze the
Yann Scioldo-Zürcher
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Hakoah Vienna and the International Nature of Interwar Austrian Sports

, 2011
Hakoah Vienna was the most important Jewish sports organization in interwar Austria. Indeed, Hakoah, which means strength or power in Hebrew, was one of the most significant sports clubs on the continent of Europe during that period.
Bowman, William
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The Characteristics of Cultural Tourists who Visit Urban Jewish Heritage Centres: The Case Study of Visitors to the White Stork Synagogue in Wrocław [PDF]

, 2016
Since the White Stork Synagogue in Wrocław has been restored, opened to visitors and become a part of the so-called District of the Four Faiths promoted by the city council, both the synagogue and its neighbourhood have become tourist attractions which ...
Duda-Seifert, Magdalena
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Zigzag: Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin

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In The Meaning of Asymmetry in Jewish Art, Avigdor Poseq notes a historical tendency in Jewish art to depict Temple-related ritual objects asymmetrically, symbolizing their dislocation after the Temple’s destruction and the continued wait for the ...
Artur Kamczycki
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What is 'Jewish' about Jewish art? Art and identity on late ancient sarcophagi from Rome [PDF]

, 2017
A paper delivered at in the 2017 Colloquia of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Considers how a group of sarcophagi from the Jewish catacombs of Rome reflect on the subject of Jewish art and Jewish patrons in Late ...
Sean Burrus
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Jewish Youth in the Minsk Ghetto: How Age and Gender Mattered [PDF]

, 2014
Explores how young Soviet Jews survived the German occupation of Soviet territories, specifically ghettoization and mass ...
Anika Walke
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Another Fateful Triangle: Jews, Muslims, Europe

Religions
This paper argues that Jews–Muslims–Europe is a fateful triangle, in which identities and identifications both inform and form one another. It draws on interview-based research at the Jewish Museum Berlin to showcase how Jewish and Muslim positionalities
Elisabeth Jane Becker
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Museums of Łódź as an Element of Tourism Space and the Connection between Museums and the City’s Tourism Image [PDF]

, 2017
This article deals with the museum potential of Łódź. The first sections describe the kinds and significance of museums, their location in the city and the attractiveness of their collections, premises and organized events.
Krakowiak, Beata
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