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RR 2001/393 Daniel Libeskind: The Space of Encounter Daniel Libeskind Thames & Hudson London 2001 ix+224pp. ISBN 0 500 28257 9 L22.95
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The museum is open to many interpretations and many routes, just like the pages of the Talmud, where the margins are often as important as what is being commented on.
This remark was made by Daniel Libeskind towards the end of a speech at the opening of the Jewish Museum, Berlin, in 1999. The architect of this extraordinary building, and of this unconventional book, was born in Lodz, Poland, to a family of Holocaust victims and survivors, in 1946. In the late 1950s he emigrated with his family to Israel; he moved to New York and became a US citizen in 1965. He arrived in Berlin following the momentous events of 1989 to work on what became the Jewish...