News, articles and information about Jewish art, architecture, and historic sites. This blog includes material to be posted on the website of the International Survey of Jewish Monuments (www.isjm.org).
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Norway: Jewish Museum Opens in Oslo
Norway: Jewish Museum Opens in Oslo
On September 9, 2008, a new Jewish Museum in Oslo, Norway, officially opened in a the historic former Calmeyer's Gate synagogue, which was mostly destroyed by the Nazis during World War II. Its remains have been used as a frame for the new building in an area where many of the first Jewish immigrants to Oslo settled in the late 19th century. Sidsel Levin is the director of the new museum.
The Jewish Museum in Oslo (JMO) was established in March 2004 in collaboration with the OsloCityMuseum, but its origin is in an exhibition organized in 1992 at the OsloCityMuseum, celebrating the centenary of Det Mosaiske Trossamfund (The Mosaic Community of Norway).
The museum seeks to collect and preserve objects and memories ofJewish history and culture in Norway, emphasizing immigration and integration from 1851 to the present.
There is also a Jewish Museum in Trondheim.
The opening of the museum was attended by Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon, the defense and culture ministers, and the Israeli ambassador to Norway. The museum's opening exhibition presents the story of how Norwegian Jews have influenced cultural life in Norway and opposition to the German occupation during World War II.
This blog provides news and opinion articles about Jewish art, architecture and historic sites - especially those where something new is happening. Developed in connection with news gathering for the International Survey of Jewish Monuments website (www.isjm.org), this blog highlights some of the most interesting Jewish sites around the world, and the most pressing issues affecting them.
Samuel D. Gruber I am a cultural heritage consultant involved in a wide variety of
documentation, research, preservation, planning, publication, exhibition
and education projects in America and abroad.
I was trained as a medievalist, architectural historian and
archaeologist, but for 20 years my special expertise has developed in
Jewish art, architecture and historic sites. My various blogs about Jewish monuments, Central New York and Public Art and Memory allow me to
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Classic Reform, Classical Synagogues and the American South
This paper documents the spread of classical-style (Jewish) temples across the South and looks at the motives of selected patrons and architects to test the idea that the use of classicism for American, and especially Southern synagogue architecture was aesthetic and ideological, and an important mechanism for shaping Jewish identity.In the South, of course, there was already a precedent for“Classical Reform” architecture in the structure of Congregation Beth Elohim in Charleston, erected in 1841 in the form of a Greek Temple.These southern architectural roots also played a strong role in the revived popularity of classicism throughout the south – and beyond.
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