The Institute for the History of the German Jews (IGdJ) and the Bet Tfila - Research Unit for Jewish Architecture at the TU Braunschweig have jointly compiled the online anthology “Jewish Textual Architectures | Jewish Spaces, Places, and Architectures in Literature
Architecture and literature are important resonance spaces of Jewish cultural heritage. The online anthology highlights selected textual sources of various genres (fictional/non-fictional) from the Haskalah to the period after the Second World War, which provide information on the significance of Jewish architecture, spaces and urban sites for the construction and self-understanding of Jewish cultural heritage. Interpretations embed the exemplary sources in their contexts of creation and reception. Users can access the contributions via various access points (genres/topics/map/timeline) and search and filter them as required. All texts are provided with metadata.
The online anthology is part of the DFG project “Constructions of Jewish Cultural Heritage in Theoretical-Critical and Literary Texts on Architecture and Space”, which the project partners are working on as part of the DFG Priority Program 2357 “Jewish Cultural Heritage”.
New contributions will be added to the online anthology throughout the duration of the project.
The online anthology is modeled on the Key Documents on German-Jewish History, which are also published by the IGdJ.
If you have any questions and/or are interested in contributing to the online anthology as an author, please contact Dr. Sonja Dickow-Rotter (sonja.dickow[at]igdj-hh.de) and/or Dipl.-Ing. Mirko Przystawik (m.przystawik[at]tu-braunschweig.de).
URL: https://jewish-textual-architectures.online/