The Jewish Museum: the brochure promotes it as offering "Zwei Jahrtausende Deutsche-Juedische Geschichte". It is more than a museum and an architectural signature of postmodernity. It is a cultural artifact of Jewish integration and disintegration; an experiential, interactive and voluntary intimacy with the Jews is invited and less so with the Germans who engineered their exile and destruction. The building, like the ambivalent history of the Jews in Germany, is disfigured, a permanent and violent scar in endless recall of the past.
