After a trip to the Danish Jewish Museum this morning, I couldn’t help but leave in bolder spirits after learning about Denmark’s history with regard to its Jewish population. Like Berlin’s Jewish Museum, which I visited last week, Denmark’s Jewish Museum in Copenhagen is designed by Daniel Libeskind, whose work (no matter how well you know the history) manages to elicit an emotional response because of how the design interacts with the historical themes.
In Berlin, the museum has windows and cracks looking out into voids and a tower with a ladder that’s just out of reach. In Copenhagen, the museum is designed in a jagged shape that includes the Hebrew letters “מצוה” to symbolize the “mitzvah” of the Danish rescue of its Jewish population during World War II.
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