November 9, 2001
The Jewish Museum Berlin: Amid Clutter, at Odds With Itself
Every new museum is a negotiation -- in the end, just one version of many possibilities. It is an artifact of its cultural and political contexts, as well as of the ideals, skills, and limitations of its creators. The Jewish Museum Berlin, whose permanent exhibition on "Two Millennia of German Jewish History" opened last month, is a fascinating case in point.
The very existence of the museum, in the heart of the old Third Reich and the capital of a reunified democratic Germany, is both
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