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- There are numerous Jewish museums in Germany; one in Essen, two in Frankfurt/Main, one in Munich, two in Franken, one in Rendsburg, one in Dorsten/Westfalen, one in Worms and one in Goppingen-Jebenhausen.
- Kugelmann , Cilly . highly qualified as a sociologist, psychologist and political pedagogue, was Head of Education for 14 years at the main Frankfurt Jewish Museum before being appointed in May 2000 to this prestigious and highly significant post in Berlin. There are over 50 staff working at the Museum, headed by the brilliant and politically powerful director W. Michael Blumenthal. The team members belong to a variety of nationalities and religious affiliations.
- The international developments in Jewish museums have seen a proliferation of such institutions in Europe, in Vienna, Amsterdam, Paris, London (too small!) and numerous German cities, as mentioned earlier. The United States prides itself on the unique Washington Holocaust Museum, as well as numerous Jewish History and Heritage Museums across many of the States of America.
- As a comparison, the Frankfurt Jewish Museum recorded in its first year 55,000 visitors, which dropped to an average figure of 40–45,000 for the subsequent years.
- Which institutions—Jewish or otherwise—could accommodate such exhibitions in London? There should be pressure on the London Jewish cultural world to create a Jewish museum which could indeed accommodate such exhibitions from abroad.
- Korn , Dr Salomon . 1986 . is the architect of the Frankfurt Jewish Community Centre known since last year as the Ignaz Bubis Centre. He has been Head of the Jewish Community of Frankfurt since 1999 and is a Board Member of the Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland (Central Council of Jews in Germany), which is the German equivalent of the British Board of Deputies. He was on the jury committee of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and now on the Board of the Berlin Jewish Museum.
- The building incorporates 365 windows—a reference to the 365 days in the year or possibly the 365 negative mitzvot?
- The three-path axis leads to the axis of Holocaust, axis of ‘Exile and Emigration’ and the axis of the long steep stairs, leading upwards and beyond to the history of German-Jewry.
- Kadishman , Menashe . educated at St Martin's School of Art and at the Slade School of Art in London, continues to live and work in Tel Aviv, where he was born in 1932. This installation has been presented to the Jewish Museum in Berlin on permanent loan by Dieter and Si Rosenkranz.
- Apparently, the required new momentum to ascend to the top of the building was very much part of the architectural planning, confirmed by the absence of lifts for the general public.