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Synagogues are complex, highly significant and polyvalent spaces of religious, social, economic, architectural, and artistic developments in Jewish culture. At the same time, they reveal the -interdependencies on the surrounding cultures. Ever since the Shoah, historic synagogues -especially in Europe have gained high importance as focal points of remembrance and education. This volume presents selected papers of the 3rd International Congress on Jewish architecture Synagogue and Museum. The conference at the Technische Universitat Braunschweig focused on examining the worldwide phenomenon of synagogues in and as museums within an interdisciplinary perspective. The papers discuss theoretical and historical approaches as well as practical examples from Austria, Brazil, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Poland, Russia and the USA.

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Katrin Kessler, born 1971 in Dillenburg; study of architecture and doctors degree (about synagogues) at the TU Braunschweig, since 2001 academic assistant at the Bet Tfila - Forschungsstelle fur judische Architektur, TU Braunschweig, involved in different research projects on history of jewish architecture. Stay for research in Israel, in between engaged at the TU Berlin, since 2018 research at the Institute for the history of the german jews in Hamburg the topic of jewish architects. born in 1970 in Wolfsburg, study of architecture and German language and literature in Braunschweig, doctors degree (about buildings on jewish cemeteries in Germany); Postdoctoral lecture qualification in 2014 at the University of Stuttgart, since 2018 associate professor at the TU Braunschweig. At the moment academic assistant at the Niedersachsische Landesamt fur Denkmalpflege, Hannover.

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