Stefan Moos

Around the mid-19th century, a new type of synagogue emerged – similar in style and location to churches. The resistance within Judaism against this conformation attests to a different origin and orientation – not as a religious community, but as outsiders. Visibility, obscuring, revealing: in minorities, the modes of self-representation follow their own rules – as an effect of “double consciousness” (W. E. B. Du Bois). What spaces of freedom open up for minorities in the tension between appropriation and demarcation?