Jewish Textual Architectures

The Institute for the History of the German Jews (IGdJ) and the Bet Tfila - Research Unit for Jewish Architecture in Europe are together developing the Online Anthology “Jewish Spaces, Places, and Architectures in Literature.”

Architecture and literature are important echoes of Jewish cultural heritage. The online anthology highlights selected text sources of various genres (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. Interpretive and background texts embed the individual sources in their historical contexts and provide information on the history of reception, transmission, and scholarly controversies. Users can navigate by (research) interest, access the articles via various access points (topic categories, timeline, map, text types), and search and filter as needed. The text sources and background information are tagged, keyworded and indexed with meta and norm data. The “Key Documents of German-Jewish History” published by the IGdJ serve as a model. The online anthology is part of the tandem project “Constructions of Jewish Cultural Heritage in Theoretical-Critical and Literary Texts on Architecture and Space” (https://spp-juedisches-kulturerbe.de/en/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”. New contributions will be added to the Online Anthology throughout the duration of the project

If you have any queries and/or are interested in contributing 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).