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Thrusday, Tishrei 25, 5777. October 27, 2016. Shalom! World. The American architect Daniel Libeskind (Jewsih polish roots) created a both fascinating and oppressive structure for the Jewish Museum Berlin, an expressive  building, through whose aura and design the horrid fate of the Jewish population in Germany is always present. Libeskind wanted to make this "fouth dimension" visible and thereby laid the foundation for the success of the Jewish Museum Berlin - known worldwide, received enthusiastically by the public and magnet for visitors its opening in 2001. Rarely is architecture such a phisical experience, and rarely does the theoretical concept of a building so intensely pervade the exhibits and those who view them. This post makes the philosophy hidden behind the silver façade comprehensible; it draws attention to the numerous metaphors of German-Jewish history contained in the concrete and steel structure and it sheds light on the complex cultural and...

Thrusday, Tishrei 18, 5777. October 20, 2016.  Shalom! World. Nuremberg lies in the sandy plain of the central Franconian basin and is sometimes referred to as the "secret capital" of Bavaria and is in fact with almost 500,000 inhabitants the second largest city in that state. The river Pegnitz divides the old town into its Sebald and Lorenz districts, named after the town's two main churches. Above both rises the medieval castle, the city's "crown." Perhaps or just because the soil around is unfavorable to agricultural pursuits, Nuremberg has developed rather from the hard work and business sense its citizens have prossessed, characteristics which were present even in the middle Ages Germany's most important centers.   HANS SACHS In the "jewel case of the German Empire," famous artists as Albrecht Dürer and Hans Sachs, Veit Stob and Peter Vischer, Martin Behaim and Peter Henlein flourished. The name Nuremberg itself...