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he Contemporary Jewish
Museum, which opened in
June in its new San Francisco
location, is a mind-blowingly grand
celebration of what Jewish sensibilities
can contribute to the American cul-
tural experience.
It's also the latest example of the
Jewish museum as event rather than
institution.
Several things set this ambitious
new creation apart.
First is the sheer scale: a $47.5
million, 63,000-square-foot build-
ing designed by Daniel Libeskind,
the famed architect of Berlin's Jewish
Museum and the master plan for the
post-9-11 World Trade Center site.
The facility, which incorporates an
abandoned 1907 power station into a
design inspired by chaff, the Hebrew
word for life, fairly screams high-con-
cept, but in a comfortable, northern
California kind of way.
The airy lobby of the San Francisco
museum acts to lift the spirits. As
Libeskind explains in his architect's
statement, "No Jewish museum can
ignore the darkness of the Holocaust;'
but the building here "embodies
and manifests hope" and, like the
American West, describes "a culture of
freedom, curiosity and possibility."
It's a museum that could have been
built only in California, says Mitchell
Schwarzer, an art history professor at
the California College of the Arts. It
fits a community that is highly inno-
vative, largely unaffiliated and has not
experienced the discrimination Jews
have felt elsewhere.
"This is a place of life and celebra-
tion and moving forward," he says. "It's
not a place of reflection on tragedy
because the Jewish experience in
California has not been a tragic one."
Another defining characteristic is
that the museum will maintain no
permanent collection, but will host
temporary and traveling exhibitions.
That's partly due to its proximity to
Berkeley's Judah L. Magnes Museum,
which owns the country's third-largest
Judaica collection. The two institutions
are still smarting from an abortive
merger effort that collapsed several
years ago and are eager not to step on