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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
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flooring and foundation being freed up and made visible
1. Is the following text talking about a synagogue that is completely buried under the ground or one whose remains are visible to people? Because somewhere it is said "its remains lay under the site" and somewhere else "the remains would not be accessible to the public in the long term".
2. What does the highlighted sentence mean "the remains of the synagogues would become visible through excavation work for Whiteread’s installation"? If so, why should not it be accessible to the public in the long term and make the Jews angry?
Although, as Whiteread explains, ‘it was always clear that the archaeological remains of the former synagogue, which burned to the ground in 1421, lay under the site’, a factor that the ‘initial proposal took into account’, one of the sticking points, which ironically resulted in some members of the Jewish community resisting the construction of the memorial, was that these vestiges of the medieval synagogue – the flooring and foundation being freed up and made visible by excavation work for Whiteread’s installation– would not be accessible to the public in the long term.
2. What does the highlighted sentence mean "the remains of the synagogues would become visible through excavation work for Whiteread’s installation"? If so, why should not it be accessible to the public in the long term and make the Jews angry?
Although, as Whiteread explains, ‘it was always clear that the archaeological remains of the former synagogue, which burned to the ground in 1421, lay under the site’, a factor that the ‘initial proposal took into account’, one of the sticking points, which ironically resulted in some members of the Jewish community resisting the construction of the memorial, was that these vestiges of the medieval synagogue – the flooring and foundation being freed up and made visible by excavation work for Whiteread’s installation– would not be accessible to the public in the long term.
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Hi 1. Yes, the synagogue at Judenplatz 15th century, as I understand it, is underground 2. It is for Jewish people to say, really.
- Hi 1.
- Yes, the synagogue at Judenplatz 15th century, as I understand it, is underground 2.
- It is for Jewish people to say, really.
- They may feel that their history goes back two or three millennia and they don't want it all on show.
- Perhaps they are content just knowing where it is Dave
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1. Yes, the synagogue at Judenplatz 15th century, as I understand it, is underground
2. It is for Jewish people to say, really. They may feel that their history goes back two or three millennia and they don't want it all on show. Perhaps they are content just knowing where it is
Dave
1. Yes, the synagogue at Judenplatz 15th century, as I understand it, is underground
2. It is for Jewish people to say, really. They may feel that their history goes back two or three millennia and they don't want it all on show. Perhaps they are content just knowing where it is
Dave
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Hi @dave_anon , after reading more about it on the web I think it is saying that when the remains of the synagogue appeared thorough excavations for the new holocaust memorial, the Jews requested the construction of the new memorial to be stopped so that people could go and visit the new discoveries under the ground. They knew that the construction of the new memorial would delay their visit of t
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I read the New York Times report and it troubled me that the city of Vienna are having to try so hard to persuade Jewish people that the memorial is a good idea. It's definitely good if people can visit the actual remains of the synagogue and it's good that the excavations are making that possible. But I can understand why people might not want a modern memorial sited over the remain
I read the New York Times report and it troubled me that the city of Vienna are having to try so hard to persuade Jewish people that the memorial is a good idea. It's definitely good if people can visit the actual remains of the synagogue and it's good that the excavations are making that possible. But I can understand why people might not want a modern memorial sited over the remain
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Thank you. But, does the original text know the reason for this resistance "that these vestiges of the medieval synagogue would not be accessible to the public in the long term"? meaning that they expected the remains to have been accessible to the people instantly without lose of time, without needing to wait for the construction of the modern memorial?
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The article doesn't say whether there is opposition to the site being examined by archaeologists and perhaps, after that, being made available to the public for study of the remains of the building and its history. My belief is that not many people would object to that
The opposition is toward the building of a monument that is 24 feet by 33 feet on or near the site. I'm not
The article doesn't say whether there is opposition to the site being examined by archaeologists and perhaps, after that, being made available to the public for study of the remains of the building and its history. My belief is that not many people would object to that
The opposition is toward the building of a monument that is 24 feet by 33 feet on or near the site. I'm not
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