SYNAGOGUES OF EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE EXHIBITION

The exhibition, based on the book of architecture historian and photographer Rudolf Klein, presents the centuries-long wandering of Jews in the East-Central European region through the Synagogues of nine countries. “The synagogue is not simply a sacred space. It is the core of Jewish intellectual, spiritual and communal life, a symbol of the coherence of a community and its élan vital. Synagogues embody values, identity, and dreams in stone and brick. In East-Central Europe, particularly as of mid-19th century, Jewish assimilation and social modernization began to become visible in architecture. This exhibition is a journey in space and time, displaying aspects of Jewish life and its economic and cultural flourishing within multinational empires. It offers a panoramic view of important shifts that took place as Jewish came to play increasingly prominent and vital roles in the economic and cultural life of Europe, and it makes one stand dumbfounded once again at the incomprehensibility of the Holocaust, when these communities were all but destroyed within the space of only a few years.” (Péter Kirschner, President of the Hungarian Jewish Cultural Association)

 

15th May – 10th June 2018

 

Jewish Community Centre,

70 Robinson Road, Mid- Levels, Hong Kong

 

Opening Ceremony:

15th May, 7.30-8.30pm

Ohel Leah Synagogue,

70 Robinson Road, Mid-levels

 

RSVP Required*: OLS@OhelLeah.org

*Non Jcc members must also bring photo ID for security

 

 

 

co-organised by:

 

supported by:

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE OF HUNGARY