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Title: Mendelssohn to Mendelsohn: Visual Case Studies of Jewish Life in Berlin

Author: Cyril Reade

Oxford, Bern, New York: Peter Lang AG, 2007

 

Visual and Cultural Studies, Art History, German-Jewish Studies

 

The author takes a fresh look at the history of the Jews in Berlin by attentively reading significant examples of the rich visual legacy of the extended period this study covers. This book begins by examining the visual environment of the Enlightenment philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and his community whose lives were regulated by feudal conditions in the waning days of a mercantilist regime. The author goes on to study the Moorish Revival synagogue on the Oranienburgerstrasse inaugurated in 1866 that reflects the status and the evolving sense of identity of the sponsoring community at that moment in the nineteenth-century pursuit of emancipation and the incremental attainment of civil rights. The study ends in the Weimar Republic where the inventive modernist architect Erich Mendelsohn contributed to the vital building program of the Neue Sachlichkeit. The visual studies approach privileged here foregrounds the articulation of the dominant culture¹s visual language by a dynamic minority expressing its place within the process of German nation building.

 

Chapter Summary:

The Pre-Modern German-Jewish Subject and its Baroque Heidereutergasse

Synagogue.   

Lavater and Lessing Visit Moses Mendelssohn: Locating a Moment of Origin for the Modern German-Jew.

The Neue Synagoge on the Oranienburgerstrasse: An Oriental Face to a Modern

Body  

The Wertheim Department Store: Messel¹s Architectural Historicism and Newness as Marketing and Cultural Strategies.

Erich Mendelsohn¹s Modernism: The Historical Roots of Neues Bauen

Architecture.   

 

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