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 published 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 about the significance of Jewish architecture, spaces and urban sites for the construction and self-understanding of Jewish cultural heritage. Interpretation texts 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 SPP project “Constructions of Jewish Cultural Heritage in Theoretical-Critical and Literary Texts on Architecture and Space.”

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).