Maya Zack, The Shabbat Room 2

This picture takes us back to the time when the "Gute Stube" was becoming a European attraction. It depicts an impossible historical encounter: the "Gute Stube" in the years between 1902 and 1908, when the Museum was in Praterstrasse, and its guest appearance at the International Hygiene Exhibition in Dresden in 1911. The Dresden room is on the diagonal and can be recognized by the arch, rope cordon, and scale model of the ghetto. This room dissects or sinks into the first one. Floating in the darkness around these two lit rooms are three sets of the same furniture and objects, recalling the Shabbat room at the other three addresses of the old Jewish Museum, of which there are no photos. The project was made possible thanks to the generous financial support of the Association of FRIENDS, Sotheby’s Kunstauktionen GesmbH, and the Frey familiy.