To rebuild or not to build

Conference-IASTE & National University of Singapore

A few years ago, the new Jewish community in Hamburg demanded to rebuild one of their long-lost key synagogues in Grindel neighborhood, demolished in 1938 by the Nazis. A topic that has become controversial in the past few years. By tracing the history of the German Jews, and their emotional connection to some of their spaces in Hamburg, this paper provokes the controversy of whether to build or not to build the synagogue in Grindel.