Bet Tfila - Forschungsstelle/Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden
Program
Tuesday, November 6, 2018, Warburg-Haus
13:00 – 14:30: Opening session
Miriam Rürup, Hamburg
Alexander von Kienlin, Braunschweig
Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, Jerusalem
Keynote: Ulrich Knufinke, Hamburg/Braunschweig: Jewish Architects – Jewish Architecture?
15:00 – 16:45: Panel 1: Discovering a New Professional Field: Jews and Architecture before 1900
Introduction: Katrin Keßler, Braunschweig
- Simon Paulus, Stuttgart: Maneschin the Master Builder – Jews as “Architects” in the Middle Age and Early Modern Period?
- Mirko Przystawik, Braunschweig: Ludwig Levy – A German architect of Jewish Faith
- Samuel Gruber, Syracuse: Arnold W. Brunner (1857-1925) and the First Generation of American-born Jewish Architects
17:15 – 18:45: Panel 2: Jews Studying Architecture: Schools, Teachers, and Networks
Introduction: Alexander von Kienlin, Braunschweig
- Sergey Kravtsov, Joseph Barsky (1876–1943) and His Search for a “Hebrew” Architecture
- Joy Kestenbaum, New York: Henry Fernbach, His Associates and Legacy
- Jan Lubitz, Hannover: Jewish Architects in Hamburg
Wednesday, November 7, 2018, Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden
9:00 – 10:45: Panel 3: Jewish Architects, Their Non-Jewish Colleagues, and Their Contractors: Partnership and/or Competition?
Introduction: Anna Menny, Hamburg
- Rudolf Klein, Budapest: “Judaisation” of Hungarian Architecture – The Big Row of Gentiles and Jews in the Press
- Ulrike Unterweger, Austin: Competing Competitions. The Quest for a Modern Synagogue in Hietzing, Vienna
- Claudia Marcy/Günter Schlusche, Berlin: Cinema Architecture and the Relationship between Architect and Client
11:15 – 13:00: Panel 4: Jewish Women as Architects: A Multiple Emancipation – A Double Exclusion?
Introduction: Regina Stephan, Mainz
- Edina Meyer-Maril, Tel Aviv: The Restless Life of the Architect Judith Stolzer-Segall (1904–1990): Russia-Germany-Israel-Germany
- Sigal Davidi, Tel Aviv/ Berlin: Architectural Education and Gender: The Case of the First Women Students at the Technion in Haifa
- Hagit Hadaya: Phyllis Lambert: A Canadian Architecture Crusader
14:00 – 15:45: Panel 5: Jewish Architects in Migration: Transfers and Transformations of Architectural Ideas
Introduction: Eleonora Bergman, Warsaw
- Artur Tanikowski, Warsaw: In Tel Aviv, Warsaw and Gdynia: Interwar Jewish Architects from the Polish Lands between Zionism and Assimilation
- Zuzana Güllendi-Cimprichova, Bamberg: The Example of Karl/Carlos Kohn: A Jewish Architect in Ecuador
- Sharman Kadish, Manchester: From Fortune to Failure? Central European Synagogue Architects in Germany and England, 1933–1963
16:15 – 18:00: Panel 6: Jewish Architects: Zionism, Palestine, and Israel
Introduction: Sylvia Necker, London
- Ronny Schüler, Weimar: The Architectural Revolution and its Framework. The Establishment of a Modern Building and Planning Culture in the Eretz-Israel
- Ines Sonder, Potsdam: Zionism and Exile. The Architects Lotte Cohn and Marie Frommer
- Naomi Simhony, Jerusalem: The Competition for a Synagogue in Nazareth Illith (1959)
19.00: Visit of the exhibition Foto-Auge Fritz Block: Der Architekt als Fotograf
Handelskammer Hamburg, Adolphsplatz 1, 20457 Hamburg
Thursday, November 8, 2018, Hafen City University
9:00 – 10:45: Panel 7: “Jewish” Architects? Self-Definitions of “Jewishness”
Introduction: Vladimir Levin, Jerusalem
- Alexandra Klei, Berlin/Hamburg: Relations and Disruptions. Jewish Architects in Postwar Germany
- Stephen Games, Kent: Jews, Architecture, and Post-War Nationalism in the United Kingdom
- Amelie Wegner/Anna Luise Schubert, Weimar: From the Second Life. Documents of Forgotten Architectures
11:15 – 12:30: Panel 8: In Search of a “Modern” Jewish Architecture?
Introduction: Viola Alianov-Rautenberg, Hamburg
- Paola Ardizzola: At the Roots of Modernity: The Intrinsic Jewish Component of Modern Architecture
- Ron Fuchs, Haifa: Rudolf Wittkower’s “Architectural Principles”: German Humanism in Exile
12:30 – 13:15: Final discussion
Chair: Andreas Brämer, Hamburg
13:15 – 13:30: Closing remarks