# Alfred Jacoby

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{{Short description|German architect (born 1950)}}
{{Infobox architect
| name = Alfred Jacoby
| image = 9e Prof. Alfred Jacoby, Architekt der Synagoge Beith-Schalom in Speyer bei der Einweihung.jpg
| caption = Jacoby in the Beith-Shalom Synagogue, Speyer, in 2011
| birth_date = 1950
| birth_place = [Offenbach](/source/Offenbach_am_Main), [Germany](/source/Germany)
| significant_buildings = [New Synagogue (Darmstadt)](/source/New_Synagogue_(Darmstadt)),<ref name="Hammer-Schenk1988">{{cite book |last1= Hammer-Schenk|first1=Harold |editor1-last= Schwarz |editor1-first=Hans-Peter | date = 1988 | title = Die Architektur der Synagoge | publisher = Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Klett-Cotta | pages = | language = de | isbn = 978-3-608-76272-3 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mjBUAAAAMAAJ}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Hein |first1=Rainer |title=Neue Synagoge in Darmstadt: Zeichen des Glauben, der Versöhnung und Zuversicht |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/neue-synagoge-in-darmstadt-zeichen-des-glauben-der-versoehnung-und-zuversicht-12657308.html |accessdate=11 December 2019 |work=Frankfurter Allgemeine |publisher=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH |date=10 November 2013 |language=German}}</ref> Aachen Synagogue
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'''Alfred Jacoby''' (born 1950) is a German architect and architectural lecturer, principally known for his output of synagogues in post-war Germany,<ref name="NYT Exhibition 2000">{{cite news |last1=Bernstein |first1=Fred |title=Display Examines Synagogue Design |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/12/nyregion/display-examines-synagogue-design.html |accessdate=11 December 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=12 November 2000}}</ref> development of a modern Jewish religious architectural vernacular,<ref name="LässigRürup2017">{{cite book |last=Necker| first=Sylvia |editor1-last=Lässig |editor1-first=Simone |editor2-last=Rürup |editor2-first=Miriam |title=Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History: Volume 8 of New German Historical Perspectives |chapter=Synagogues at the Intersection of Architecture, Town, and Imagination |date=1 June 2017 |publisher=Berghahn Books| isbn = 978-1-78533-554-9 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZGi6DQAAQBAJ|page=170 |edition=First |language=English}}</ref> his teaching positions as a lecturer and professor of architecture, and his active architectural practice in [Frankfurt am Main](/source/Frankfurt_am_Main). Jacoby was born in Offenbach, in 1950, to a Polish father, and was educated at the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge) and [Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule](/source/ETH_Zurich). Credited with being the first postwar architect in Germany to develop a distinctive Jewish vernacular for synagogue buildings,<ref name="American Jewish Year Book 1996">{{cite journal |editor1-last=Singer |editor1-first=David |title=Federal Republic of Germany: Synagogue boom |journal=American Jewish Year Book |date=1996 |volume=96 |pages=292 |publisher=VNR AG}}</ref> he is recognised as Germany's leading synagogue architect.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Engel |first1=Matthew |title=Germany reclaimed: Berlin's Jewish revival |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2018/05/germany-reclaimed-berlin-s-jewish-revival |website=New Statesman |publisher=NS Media Group |accessdate=11 December 2019 |date=23 May 2018}}</ref> Jacoby was Director of the Dessau Institute of Architecture at the [Anhalt University of Applied Sciences](/source/Anhalt_University_of_Applied_Sciences), Bauhaus Dessau,<ref>{{cite web |title=Architektur und Geoinformation: Prof. Alfred Jacoby |url=https://www.hs-anhalt.de/en/university/service/directory-of-people/prof-alfred-jacoby.html |website=Hochschule Anhalt |publisher=Anhalt University of Applied Sciences |accessdate=11 December 2019}}</ref> from 2000 until 2017.

==Further reading==
* Jacoby, A. 2001. ''Synagogenbau in Deutschland nach dem Krieg''. Kunst und Kirche: Präsidium des Evangelischen Kirchenbautages in Verbindung mit dem Institut für Kirchenbau und kirchliche Kunst der Gegenwart an der Philipps-Universität Marburg. 211–214.

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Category:German people of Polish descent
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
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Category:20th-century German Jews
Category:Jewish architects
Category:Synagogue architecture

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