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	Jewish Museum Berlin
		The city's first museum of Jewish art and culture was founded in January 1933, one week before Adolf Hitler became chancellor, and boldly proclaimed the very facts that the Nazis denied: the enduring influence of Jewish culture on Berlin and Germany.
		In announcing the international competition for the museum design, city planners stated the paradox: the new museum, like its 1933 predecessor, had to illustrate the symbiosis of Jewish and German culture over the centuries, yet at the same time underscore the near absence of Jews in Germany today.
		It makes Berlin itself look different: seen through the oblique ribbons, triangles and trapezoids of the windows, the cityscape is skewed and slightly surreal, its moods shifting quickly with a passing cloud in a way that lingers in the memory long afterward.
	www.smithsonianmagazine.com /issues/2006/june/museumberlin.php (713 words)

	Jewish Museum Berlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Jewish Museum in Berlin was originally founded in Oranienburger Strasse in 1933.
		The director of the museum is Professor W.
		The entrance to the museum is intentionally made difficult and long to instill in the visitor the feeling of challenge and hardship that is distinctive of Jewish history.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_Museum_Berlin (507 words)

	Jewish Museum Berlin
		The city's first museum of Jewish art and culture was founded in January 1933, one week before Adolf Hitler became chancellor, and boldly proclaimed the very facts that the Nazis denied: the enduring influence of Jewish culture on Berlin and Germany.
		The Jewish Museum has its critics, some of whom object that the collection is overwhelmed by the building itself.
		It makes Berlin itself look different: seen through the oblique ribbons, triangles and trapezoids of the windows, the cityscape is skewed and slightly surreal, its moods shifting quickly with a passing cloud in a way that lingers in the memory long afterward.
	www.smithsonianmag.com /issues/2006/june/museumberlin.php (713 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		BERLIN — An average of 2,000 visitors file into the Jewish Museum every day to plumb the depths of 2,000 years of continuous Jewish history in Germany.
		Charting the Jewish presence in Germany through thick and thin through 13 historical eras from Roman times to the contemporary period, the museum never loses sight of the Nazi interregnum that nearly wiped out one of the world’s most venerable Jewish communities.
		Jewish emigration levels topped the 20,000 mark annually until the flow was officially cut off on Oct. 23, 1941, in a prelude to the Holocaust.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=6554 (977 words)

	Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany - lastminute.com
		The museum's ground-plan evokes a broken Star of David, while different corridors symbolise both the long history of cultural exchange between Jews and non-Jews and the cultural void left in Europe by the destruction of European Jewry.
		Berlins climate is equally eclectic, with hot summer days giving way to occasionally freezing temperatures during the long grey winter.
		Todays quintessential Berlin experience is to laze through a summer day in the Tiergarten with the rabble of construction just out of earshot, sipping on a chilled Pilsner beer, while witnessing a city reinventing itself as one of Europes finest capitals.
	www.lastminute.com /site/find/World/Europe/Germany/Berlin/WOW-Attraction-99851.html (659 words)

	museumnetwork.com - Empty But Not Meaningless: Last Chance to Tour Jewish Museum Berlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Jewish Museum Berlin (Jüdisches Museum Berlin) may be empty, but 200,000 people have already visited since it opened in February 1999.
		The idea for the museum took root during a 1971 exhibition honoring the 300th anniversary of Berlin's Jewish community.
		East Berlin also had a municipal museum, and all agreed that in the reunited city, the city history museums should be reunited, as well.
	www.museumnetwork.com /features/07_06_highlight_jewish.asp (722 words)

	Jewish Post - News - The German President Johannes Rau: Praising German Jewry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The purpose of the Jewish Museum Berlin is to familiarize us with "Two Millennia of German Jewish History." This is an ambitious, almost an unattainable goal.
		The Jewish Museum Berlin has made a conscious decision not to become an exhibition center where history is locked up and preserved in display cases.
		I hope that the museum will heighten awareness of where prejudice and resentment can lead and demonstrate that there is no humane alternative to tolerance and living together in harmony.
	www.jewishpost.com /jp0712/jpn0712i.htm (1842 words)

	The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Berlin
		As the 18th century drew to a close, Berlin became the center of the Haskalah, or Jewish enlightenment, which came to advocate Jewish equality and secularism.
		Berlin was universally considered a "liquidation city" – no one expected the Jews to have a future in Berlin, and thus it was assumed that all the residents would quickly emigrate.
		The Jewish museum, a division of the Berlin museum, is notable both for its location and its contents.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/berlin.html (1612 words)

	BerlinLIVE \| Jewish Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The “Association for a Jewish Museum” was first established in 1975 and held exhibitions in what was then the West Berlin city museum, housed in an 18 th century Baroque courthouse.
		While the controversy surrounding the museum has been relatively diffused, our group was able to engage in a critical analysis of the architecture, exhibition, and ideology of the Jewish Museum during our visit.
		While the Jewish Museum was certainly not our group's favorite, it provided a fascinating study in the ambitions and failures of both monumental architecture as a site of memory and of curatorial choices in historical exhibitions.
	www.mcah.columbia.edu /berlin/places/jewishmuseum.html (1770 words)

	Jewish Social Studies--Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin: The Uncanny Arts of Memorial Architecture
		Hoping to preserve the memory of single, unified Berlin as bulwark against its permanent division and unwilling to cede control of the city's "official history" to the party apparatchiks of the east, a citizens' committee proposed a Berlin Museum for the western sector, which the Berlin Senate approved and founded in 1962.
		The aim of the museum would be to represent and document both the cultural and historical legacies of the city--through an ever-growing collection of art, maps, artifacts, plans, models, and urban designs--all to show the long evolution of Berlin from a regional Prussian outpost to capital of the German Reich between 1876 and 1945.
		In thus suggesting that the murder of Berlin's Jews was the single greatest influence on the shape of this city, the planners also seem to imply that the new Jewish extension of the Berlin Museum may even constitute the hidden center of Berlin's own civic culture, a focal point for Berlin's historical self-understanding.
	iupjournals.org /jss/jss6-2.html (8515 words)

	j. - New Jewish Museum Berlin tells tales of past, present that unfold 2,000-year history of Jews in Germany
		A German Jewish boy who found the object entrusted it to a woman, requesting that it be sent to his uncle in New York, or at the very least, that it end up in Jewish hands.
		The section on the contributions of Jewish musicians and artists from 1890 to 1930 was Wolff's provenance, as a curator at the museum, and he was disappointed he couldn't do justice to his subject.
		The museum, which has served as a source of controversy since the idea was born 30 years ago, is welcomed by most Berliners, Jewish and non-Jewish.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/16827/edition_id/331/format/html/displaystory.html (1409 words)

	Berlin's Jewish Museum to Open in 2001 - Brief Article Art in America - Find Articles
		After repeated postponements, Berlin's new Jewish Museum is officially slated to unveil its first exhibitions in September 2001, two and a half years after its dramatic DM 120-million (about $54-million) building, by architect Daniel Libeskind, opened its doors to the public.
		The museum's director, Michael Blumenthal, a former U.S. Treasury secretary who was born in Berlin, has confirmed that the haunting "voids" which Libeskind designed within the 107,000-square-foot structure will remain empty.
		The museum's permanent displays will tell the story of Jews in Germanic lands from Roman times to the present, with special attention to the devastating effects of the Holocaust and the slow postwar reconstruction of Jewish life in Germany.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_11_88/ai_66888235 (384 words)

	museumnetwork.com - Empty But Not Meaningless: Last Chance to Tour Jewish Museum Berlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Jewish Museum Berlin (Jüdisches Museum Berlin) may be empty, but 200,000 people have already visited since it opened in February 1999.
		East Berlin also had a municipal museum, and all agreed that in the reunited city, the city history museums should be reunited, as well.
		The architect's mandate was to acknowledge Berlin's rich Jewish history on a personal level, while integrating the lessons learned from the mass racism and genocide of the Holocaust.
	museumnetwork.com /features/07_06_highlight_jewish.asp (722 words)

	The Jewish Museum in Berlin – "Not a Guilt Trip"
		Conceived in the 1970s and originally intended as a division within the Berlin City Museum, the $87 million Jewish Museum was set to open the week of September 9 with an exhibition tracing the history of Jews in Germany from Roman times through the present.
		But Blumenthal has said that the museum is not being designed for "the intellectuals, the historians or journalistic snobs." Cox, who says he acts as an "audience advocate," says critics have been "over-reductive" in suggesting a museum’s only options are to be traditional or Disney-like.
		The museum, she says, won’t be able to take the risks her own Jewish-run center can, as in an exhibition that discussed Jewish wartime collaborators, "Jew-catchers," in Berlin – and named names.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF2001/Klein/Klein.html (2192 words)

	The Seattle Times: Travel Outdoors: Berlin's Holocaust memorials and museums produce a tangle of emotions
		The Jewish Museum Berlin, designed by Daniel Libeskind, is considered by many to be the most significant example of contemporary architecture in the city.
		The most massive, central and official of the monuments are major tourist attractions of reunified Berlin: the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe near the Brandenburg Gate (which opened in May) and the new Jewish Museum Berlin (completed in 2002).
		Berlin synagogues, once desecrated by the Nazis and now restored (with protective anti-terrorism edifices, ironically), are now open to tourists and to Berlin's current and surprisingly large Jewish population — composed mostly of 1990s émigrés from the former Soviet Union.
	o.seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/traveloutdoors/2002419188_berlin07.html (1906 words)

	Jewish Museum - Berlin - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		THE NEW Jewish Museum in Berlin is the most compelling, moving, involving,
		museum, and to "show the Jewish people as a strange ethnic group".
		Berlin and of her Jews, except in catastrophe".
	architectstore.com /news/jewish-museum-berlin.htm (882 words)

	Special Exhibitions Jewish Museum and Museum Judengasse Frankfurt
		The Jewish Museum of Frankfurt is now, for the first time, presenting a selection of 45 ghetto posters from the Lithuanian Central State Archives.
		In addition, the exhibition offers an overview of Jewish culture in Vilna before 1940/1 and of the strenuous reconstruction of Jewish life in Vilnius since 1944 until the present day by means of historical film material, photographs and interviews with survivors.
		Shtarker fun ayzn is organized by the Jewish Museum of Frankfurt and the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture and is presented in German and English.
	www.juedischesmuseum.de /wechselausstellungen/wilna_en.html (351 words)

	German-Jewish Dialogue and Reconciliation
		The Jewish Museum in Berlin, together with the Haus der Geschichte in Bonn, will show the exhibition "Heimat und Exil", on the emigration of German Jews after 1933.
		Its active Jewish community has grown to 200.000 (with another 70,000 applicants waiting for their papers from the former Soviet territories), from only 15.000 at the end of World War II and 30,000 at the end of the 1980s.
		Judaism in Germany is 'in' and Berlin's Jewish Museum is the most visited museum in all of Germany." But adds Blumenthal, "The relationship between Jews and non-Jews in Germany is not normal; it is a nervous one, not an easy and open one.
	www.tekla-szymanski.com /germanjewish.html (5601 words)

	All About Jewish Theatre - World Trade Center site architect Daniel Libeskind to give lecture on March 1
		The museum, which opened to great critical acclaim in September 2001, explores and integrates the history of the Jews in Germany and the repercussions of the Holocaust.
		Libeskind said he wished to reflect the "displacement of the spirit" and the absence of Berlin's Jewish citizens whose lives were lost during the Holocaust.
		The museum is one of Berlin's most-visited cultural attractions.
	www.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=551 (683 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Berlin's Jewish Museum opens
		Berlin has celebrated the opening of its first Jewish museum since the Nazis destroyed the old one more than 60 years ago.
		But the museum's designers are anxious that the massive cultural contribution of the Jewish community is not entirely overshadowed by the unspeakable horror of the Nazi regime.
		The new museum springs from a decision by the post-war Berlin city to expand its Jewish department.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/1533541.stm (452 words)

	Jewish in Berlin
		Berlin was once one of the great Jewish cities of the world.
		The Jewish Museum is one of the most striking pieces of architecture in modern Berlin, no small feat considering the city's recent building boom.
		The void left by the holocaust is represented by a vast, empty, echoing tower, and the disorientation of immigration to a new land by the E. Hoffmann garden.
	www.berlinfo.com /Lifetime/Public/public_religion/religion_jewish/index.htm (377 words)

	Jewish Museum Berlin
		A Jewish Museum in Berlin simply could not be designed outside of the historical and emotional parameters of the Holocaust.
		The old and the new, the city of Berlin and its Jewish community are connected symbolically in this choice of material, as well as in the co-joined use of the old building with the new.
		The Jewish Museum is a triumph for Libeskind's debut work and a gift of surpassing splendor for Jews and non-Jews alike, for Berliners, and for visitors from the world over, for whom this building has already become a destination of pilgrimage.
	www.culturevulture.net /ArtandArch/JewishMuseumBerlin.htm (1002 words)

	j. - Despite questions, Berlin's Jewish museum to open
		At the Berlin museum, exhibitions are scheduled to open in the fall of 2000, but no one seems to know just which artifacts the museum will display.
		Members of Berlin's Jewish community, who fought to keep it as a Jewish museum when its future was uncertain, say they have not been informed about current plans.
		In a brochure about the museum issued for the opening, Libeskind says he had three goals when designing the building: the enormous contribution to Berlin history made by its Jewish citizens, the necessity of integrating Holocaust memory into the consciousness of the city, and the acknowledgment of the erasure of Berlin's Jewish life.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/10436/format/html/displaystory.html (875 words)

	libeskind's jewish museum in berlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Israeli museum director Amnon Barzel suddenly left in October 1997 after accusing the Berlin government of wanting to minimize the Jewishness of the museum, and of wanting to "show the Jewish people as a strange ethnic group." He argued for an autonomy from the Berlin Municipal Museum.
		He says his designs shows that "you can't separate the histories of Berlin and of her Jews, except in catastrophe." His design is an extension of the baroque palace which houses the Berlin Municipal Museum.
		The Holocaust museum is powerful because as a record of life rather than a monument to death, it does not seek to encapsulate the unimaginable, but it also is a little kitsch with its Holocaust void and Garden of Exile.
	wso.williams.edu /~mdeean/berlin/libeskind.html (498 words)

	JewishJournal.com
		Museum Island — a five-building complex featuring 6,000-years worth of archaeological collections and art — and the Berlin Film Museum at Sony Center are just a few of 150 museums that dot the city’s landscape.
		The Jewish Museum Berlin (www.jmberlin.de), a zinc-paneled, lightning bolt-shaped building, is a glowing example of Germany’s efforts to reconcile its National Socialist past.
		The museum’s seemingly endless collection, which celebrates past and present Ashkenazic life and culture, is partly intended as a way to counter the perception that the Holocaust is the sum total of German Jewish history.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=7947 (1566 words)

	libeskind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Jewish Museum is a museum which explicitly thematises and integrates, for the first time in post-war Germany, the history of the Jews in Germany and the repercussions of the Holocaust.
		The museum exhibits the social, political and cultural history of Jews in Berlin from the 4th Century to the present.
		The longest one leads to the Stair of Continuity and to the Museum itself; the second leads to the Garden of Exile and Emigration and the third axis leads to the dead end of the Holocaust Void.
	www.daniel-libeskind.com /projects/pro.html?ID=2 (1187 words)

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