The Institute for the History of the German Jews (IGdJ), PD Dr. Andreas Brämer, and the Bet Tfila - Research Unit for Jewish Architecture in Europe, PD Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Knufinke, are developing an online anthology on the topic of Jewish architecture and Jewish space. The online anthology is part of the tandem project “Constructions of Jewish Cultural Heritage in Theoretical-Critical and Literary Texts on Architecture and Space”, which both partners are working on in the context of the DFG Priority Program 2357 “Jewish Cultural Heritage”.
The focus is on selected textual sources (fictional/non-fictional) from the Haskalah to the immediate post-World War II period (1750-1965), which are used to cast thematic spotlights on the significance of Jewish architectures, spaces, and urban places for the construction and self-understanding of Jewish cultural heritage.
