Im Angesicht des Todes
28,00 €*
„Im Angesicht des Todes“ ist die erste kulturgeschichtliche Ausstellung zu jüdischen Praktiken des Umgangs mit Sterben, Tod und Trauer. Das Buch zur Ausstellung im Jüdischen Museum Frankfurt rückt die gezeigten Kunstwerke, Medien und Objekte in einen anthropologischen wie auch philosophischen Zusammenhang. In 17 Beiträgen legen namhafte Expertinnen und Experten neue medizinische Forschungsergebnisse dar, diskutieren ethische Fragen, gehen auf religionsvergleichende Perspektiven ein oder zeichnen nach, welche Rolle der Tod in Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte spielt. Mit seinem multiperspektivischen Ansatz eröffnet das Buch nicht nur einen neuen Zugang zur letzten Passage des Lebens. Es greift auch den menschlichen Wunsch auf, den Tod zu verstehen.
Mit Beiträgen von Rabbiner Jehoschua Ahrens | Eva Sabrina Atlan | Avishai Bar-Asher | Avriel Bar-Levav | Alfred Bodenheimer | Dennis Eiler | Gülbahar Erdem | Duygu Rana Heinz | Birgit Heller | Elisabeth Hollender | Shelly Kupferberg | Michael Lenarz | Andreas Raabe | Johanna Rahner | Erik Riedel | Rabbiner Julian-Chaim Soussan | Sara Soussan | Laura Viviana Strauss | Mirjam Wenzel
Architecture of Survival
34,00 €*
Approximately 50,000 Jews survived the Holocaust in occupied Poland and Ukraine, some of them using hideouts. Driven by necessity, they were forced to seek refuge in unlikely and seemingly unsuited places such as tree hollows, closets, basements or sewers–staying there for days, and sometimes even years. They are a testament to the architectural creativity of those who had to secure the basic means of sustaining life with minimal resources, without being able to radically alter the space available to them. Architect, scholar and artist Natalia Romik has identified and studied several hideouts that still exist today. Her research, resulting in the exhibition Hideouts. The Architecture of Survival, accentuates the material and spatial dimensions of living in hiding, gathering the evidence of vernacular, architectural creativity employed under life-threatening conditions. This interdisciplinary catalogue, addresses the fundamental question of the function of architecture in relation to the history of violence and our culture of commemoration.
A graduate in political science, practitioner of architecture and artist, NATALIA ROMIK (*1983, Warsaw) received a PhD at London’s Bartlett School of Architecture in 2018. Romik has been awarded numerous grants, including the London Arts and Humanities Partnership, and the Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland. Currently she is a postdoctoral fellow at the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah in Paris.
