| Translated title | Viennese Synagogues: A Memory |
| Authors & Editors |
Bob Marten, Herbert Peter, Danielle Spera, Werner Hanak-Lettner. |
| Curators |
Bob Marten, Herbert Peter. |
| Co-curators |
Danielle Spera, Werner Hanak-Lettner. |
| Imprint |
Vienna, Austria, 2016. 157 pp., illustrations: 133 col., 94 b&w, 24 × 21 cm. German & English. |
| ISBN |
9783993002664 |
| Location |
Jüdisches Museum Wien (19 May–17 November 2016) |
| Description |
Virtual reconstructions, models, plans and photographs presenting and commemorating the nearly one-hundred synagogues and prayer houses that existed in Vienna before the Holocaust, all but one of which was destroyed during Kristallnacht. Introductory text by Danielle Spera, followed by in-depth essays on the synagogues, their Torah ornaments (Gabriele Kohlbauer-Fritz), images on postcards, individual architects and locations, planning and demolition, architectural styles & decorative elements, building restrictions, destruction, “Aryanization”, commemoration, virtual reconstructions, etc. No itemized listing. |
| main keywords |
ARCHITECTSKRISTALLNACHTPHOTOGRAPHSPOSTCARDSSYNAGOGUESSYNAGOGUES, ARCHITECTURESYNAGOGUES, MODELS/RECONSTRUCTIONSTORAH ORNAMENTSVIENNA |
| minor keywords |
Drawings/SketchesFleischer, MaxFörster, Ludwig ChristianGartner, JakobHistorical documentsHistorical photographsKatscher, MaximillianKeter TorahKönig, CarlPaintings, synagoguesPrints, synagoguesReiser, Ignaz N.RimmonimSchön, FriedrichSchöne, LudwigShana Tova greeting cardsStiassny, WilhelmSynagogue lampsSynagogue organsSynagogues, architectural plansSynagogues, AustriaSynagogues, documentation ofSynagogues, ViennaTankards/JugsTassTorah Ark curtainsYad |
| Related ephemera |
Exhibition leaflet, 6 pp., 9 col., 19 b&w illus., 21 × 10 cm. |