Introduction to Part 1: Synagogues and Spaces in Post-War Germany

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introductory Remark 1
4. Part 1: Synagogues and Spaces
5. Introduction to Part 1: Synagogues and Spaces in Post-War Germany 7
6. Wall Paintings in Synagogues of Displaced Persons in Germany (1945–1950) 37
7. “Next Year in Jerusalem …” – References to the Holy Land in Synagogue Architecture 53
8. Impressive and Invisible. Reflections on the Urban Disposition of Synagogue Buildings in Germany Since 1990 71
9. The Dynamics of Jewish Space(s): Jewish Agency, Individual, Collective and the Creating, Maintenance or Discarding of Jewish Dominated Jewish Spaces 85
10. Part 2: Ritual Objects
11. Introduction to Part 2: Objects of Religious Practice in the Jewish Communities of Germany after 1945 113
12. Locating and Relocating: Mordechai W. Bernstein, Jewish Successor Organizations and the Musealization of Jewish Cultural Heritage Objects 121
13. “In the religious field great strides have been made” – Jewish Relief Organizations and the Supply of Religious Objects to Jewish Communities in the British Zone (1945–1950) 135
14. Between Rite and Musealization. Judaica in the Jewish Communities of Southern Germany after the Shoah, Using the Example of Augsburg and the Person of Julius Spokojny 149
15. Part 3: Liturgy and Music
16. Introduction to Part 3: Community, Religious Practice and Synagogue Music in Post-War Germany 165
17. A Relic of the Past? The Organ and the Jewish Communities in Post-War Germany 175
18. Jewish Musical Heritage in Post-War Germany: Negotiating Jewish Self-Understanding through Synagogue Chant 189
19. Kaddish in Flossenbürg. On the Genesis of the Memorials to Jewish Victims of the Concentration Camp 211
20. Index: Persons and Places 227