Translated title | Synagogue Architecture in Germany from the Baroque to the “New Building” Movement. Documentation of the Exhibition |
Editors |
Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, Harmen Thies. |
Sponsors |
Center for Jewish Art—The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Baugeschichte, University of Braunschweig. |
Imprint |
Braunschweig, Germany, 2000. 104 pp., illustrations: 178 b&w, 29.5 × 21 cm. German, with English introduction. |
ISBN |
3980254186 |
Location |
Technische Universität Braunschweig (May 2000) |
Description |
Detailed reconstructions of synagogues and mikva’ot in Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, and Thüringen. Second edition catalog, with introductions by Bezalel Narkiss, Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, and Harmen Thies. 7 essays address German synagogue architecture in various periods. Each synagogue presented with descriptions, historical photographs, architectural plans, and models. 28 synagogues. |
Description |
The exhibition and catalog were the results of three collaborative projects, begun in 1994, between the Department of Baugeschichte of the University of Braunschweig and the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
main keywords |
GERMANYLOWER SAXONYMIKVAHPHOTOGRAPHSSAXONYSAXONY-ANHALTSYNAGOGUESSYNAGOGUES, ARCHITECTURAL PLANSSYNAGOGUES, ARCHITECTURESYNAGOGUES, DOCUMENTATION OFSYNAGOGUES, MODELS/RECONSTRUCTIONSTHÜRINGEN |
minor keywords |
Prints, synagoguesSynagogues, GermanySynagogues, Lower SaxonySynagogues, SaxonySynagogues, Saxony-AnhaltSynagogues, Thüringen |
Other venues |
Görlitz; Dresden; Seesen; Halberstadt; Wolfenbüttel; Begegnungsstätte Alte Synagoge Wuppertal, Germany (19 October–30 November 2008) |
Catalog from other venue |