The book features designs for new synagogue buildings in Berlin and Hamburg and a series of conversations that explore the architectural representation of Jewish life in Germany today. Germany is currently experiencing an intense debate about the reconstruction of synagogues that were destroyed under Nazi rule as well as the search for an appropriate architectural expression of Jewish life and culture in the country's major cities today. This book, which results from a collaboration between the Technical Universities of Darmstadt and Dresden, Hamburg's HafenCity University, and the Bauhaus-Universit