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Reform Synagogue, Plauen
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This modern synagogue in Plauen (in the Saxony region) was one of the few synagogues built in Germany in the economically turbulent years of the Weimar Republic. Jews and non-Jews contributed funds…

Contributor:

Fritz Landauer

Places:

Plauen, Weimar Republic (Plauen, Germany)

Date:

1928–1930

Subjects:

Synagogue, Reform Judaism, Cities, Community, Modernism, Architecture

Categories:

Architecture
Image of rectangular building with Star of David on side.
Jewish Wedding at a Synagogue in Fürth
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This print depicting a Jewish wedding in Fürth is from the beginning of the eighteenth century, a period of prosperity for the city’s Jewish community. There were between 350 and 400 Jewish families…

Contributor:

Johannes Alexander Böner

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1705

Subjects:

Synagogue, Marriage, Family, Cities, Community, Architecture

Categories:

Architecture, Print & book culture
Print engraving of two buildings with tile roofs next to each other, one of mostly wood and the other of stone, with several people standing in front of them, and German writing below.
Map of the Land of Israel
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This map, in a manuscript copy of Be’er mayim ḥayim (A Spring of Living Water), a commentary on Rashi published in Worms or Friedberg in the late fifteenth or sixteenth century, is based on Rashi’s…

Contributor:

Ḥayim ben Bezalel

Places:

Worms, Holy Roman Empire (Worms, Germany)
Friedburg (Friedberg, Germany)

Date:

Late 15th or 16th Century

Subjects:

Art, Cities, Temple, Bible, Allegory, Architecture

Categories:

Architecture
Manuscript page with drawings of buildings and boats spread across the page with Hebrew labels.
Wertheim Department Store (Interior)
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The façade of the massive Warenhaus Wertheim had rows of narrow pillars extending from the ground floor to the roof and was a showpiece of early twentieth-century Berlin. The interior looked more like…

Contributor:

Alfred Messel

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1897

Subjects:

Art, Cities, Modernity, Economic life, Architecture

Categories:

Architecture
Photograph depicting tall statue in the center of large atrium with interior staircases.
Wertheim Department Store (Exterior)
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Contributor:

Alfred Messel

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1897–1902

Subjects:

Art, Cities, Modernity, Economic life, Architecture

Categories:

Architecture
Postcard depicting exterior of building with many columns built into its walls.
Eva Frank’s house in Offenbach during the visit of Tsar Alexander I, November 1813
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Jacob (Jakob) Frank (ca. 1726–1791) was a controversial and charismatic messianic figure who attracted a significant Jewish following in Eastern Europe. After his death, his daughter Eva Frank (1754…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Offenbach, German Confederation (Offenbach, Germany)

Date:

1813

Subjects:

Cities, Christian-Jewish relations, Monarchy, Women, Messianism, Architecture

Categories:

Cartooning & graphic art, Architecture
Image of house with many windows surrounded by soldiers on horseback and people.
Synagogue in the Park at Wörlitz, Germany
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Designed in the German neoclassical style, the Wörlitz synagogue was modeled on Rome’s Temple of Vesta, featuring a circular building with a conical roof. It was commissioned by Prince Leopold…

Contributor:

Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff

Places:

Wörlitz, Holy Roman Empire (Wörlitz, Germany)

Date:

1789–1790

Subjects:

Ashkenazi, Art, Synagogue, Cities, Community, Architecture

Categories:

Decorative arts, Architecture
Photograph of round building in a park, reflected in pond.
Alte Synagogue (Berlin)
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Built by the non-Jewish architect Michael Kemmeter, the Alte Synagoge (Synagogue) was the first edifice in Berlin built specifically to serve this function. Originally known as the Heidereutergasse…

Contributor:

Michael Kemmeter, Anna Maria Werner, A.B. Goblin, Friedrich August Calau

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1714

Subjects:

Synagogue, Print, Cities, Community, Art, Architecture

Categories:

Architecture, Print & book culture
Print engraving of room interior with central podium, Torah ark on far wall, and rows of pews on either side of podium, with German and Hebrew text below.
Berlin Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany
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Liebeskind’s design for a new extension to the Berlin Jewish Museum was the winner of a 1989 competition and was the first of his designs to be built. Its zigzagging shape was intended to evoke the…

Contributor:

Daniel Libeskind

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

2001

Subjects:

Art, Postmodernism, Cities, Memory, Architecture

Categories:

Architecture
Aerial photograph of angular buildings with trees and grass surrounding.