the Kopp vineyard near Baden-Baden has been attracting visitors not only with its exquisite wines but also with the fine regional cuisine of its new restaurant And all this with spectacular views over the wine-growing region and into the Rhine Valley colour-coordinated with the architecture of the characterful building the Kopp family from Sinzheim-Ebenung in the northern Black Forest decided to expand their estate which was already known for its outstanding wines to include an equally exquisite restaurant The owner came up with the idea for this years ago during a stay in South Africa the couple were able to inaugurate this concept last September with the ‘Ebanat’ restaurant and the new vinotheque at their winery Awnings match the distinctive architectureThe location rises impressively out of the vineyard landscape like an angular rock massif the architecture skilfully picks up on the characteristics of the iron-rich soils common in the wine-growing region Light-coloured concrete elements and natural sandstone walls provide bright contrasts The same applies to the multi-part awning system from markilux it has been providing shade for the restaurant terrace and the spacious window front of the dining area which offers spectacular views of the vineyards and the Rhine Valley Sun protection as part of a stylish experience‘The architect of the building had recommended us the quality of our products was an important criterion for the owners of the winery to choose markilux,’ says Jan Kattenbeck which is exposed to the wind on the western edge of the Fremersberg required very stable folding-arm awnings that could be freely adjusted in terms of their inclination to the sun were used on the 35-metre-long covered restaurant terrace Their full cassettes are finished in the same colour as the façade the fabrics look elegant against the window front creating a bright contrast to the rather earthy look of the building envelope Jan Kattenbeck finds this composition of material and colour extremely exciting: ‘With the open light-flooded room concept of the restaurant and vinotheque the winery offers its guests exquisite dining and drinking pleasure in a beautiful atmosphere And we are very pleased that our awnings are part of this stylish experience,’ he concludes Seit 2022 lockt das „Weingut Kopp“ in der Nähe von Baden-Baden nicht mehr nur mit erlesenen Weinen sondern auch mit gehobener regionaler Küche seines neuen Restaurants „Ebanat“ Und das mit spektakulärem Blick über das Weinbaugebiet bis ins Rheintal Ein auf die Architektur des charaktervollen Gebäudes farblich abgestimmtes Markisensystem von markilux spendet den dazu passenden Schatten Familie Kopp aus Sinzheim-Ebenung im Nordschwarzwald entschied sich 2020 ihr bis dahin bereits für seine herausragenden Weine bekanntes Gut um ein ebenso exquisites Restaurant zu erweitern Die Idee hierfür brachte der Eigentümer vor Jahren von einem Aufenthalt aus Südafrika mit Nach zwei Jahren Bauzeit konnte das Paar dieses Konzept im vergangenen September mit dem Restaurant „Ebanat“ und der neuen Vinothek auf seinem Weingut einweihen Markisen passen zur charaktervollen Architektur Wie ein kantiges Gesteinsmassiv ragt die Location eindrucksvoll aus der Rebenlandschaft empor Gekonnt greift die Architektur mit ihrer Eisen-patinierten Fassade Charakteristika der im Weinbaugebiet verbreiteten eisenhaltigen Böden auf Helle Betonelemente und naturbelassene Sandsteinmauern setzen dazu lichte Kontraste Ebenso wie die mehrteilige Markisenanlage von Hersteller markilux mit ihren cremefarbenen Tüchern Seit 2022 beschattet sie die Gastroterrasse und die großzügige Fensterfront des Gastraums mit spektakulärem Blick auf die Weinberge und die Rheinebene Sonnenschutz als Teil eines stilvollen Erlebnisraums „Der Architekt des Gebäudes hatte uns weiterempfohlen Für die Eigentümer des Weingutes war schließlich die Qualität unserer Produkte ein wesentliches Kriterium sich für markilux zu entscheiden“ Die windexponierte Lage am westlichen Rand des Fremersbergs deren Neigung zur Sonne frei einstellbar sein sollte Zum Einsatz kamen auf der insgesamt 35 Meter langen überdachten Gastroterrasse daher acht einzelne Markisen der Produkte markilux 5010 und 990 Deren Vollkassetten sind im Farbton der Fassade gehalten und verschmelzen so mit dem Gesamtbild Die Tücher dagegen wirken wie ein eleganter Augenaufschlag an der Fensterfront und markieren einen hellen Kontrast zur eher erdigen Optik der Gebäudehülle Jan Kattenbeck findet diese Komposition aus Material und Farbe äußerst spannend: „Mit dem offenen lichtdurchfluteten Raumkonzept von Restaurant und Vinothek bietet das Weingut seinen Gästen drinnen wie draußen erlesenen Ess- und Trink-Genuss in schöner Atmosphäre dass unsere Markisen ein Teil dieses stilvollen Erlebnisraums sind“ 2014Get email notification for articles from David B the newly constituted Sanhedrin of Paris convened under the authority vested in it by the Emperor Napoleon intended to be an heir to the court and governing body of the same name that existed briefly in ancient Israel in the years before and after the destruction of the Second Temple came in the wake of Napoleon’s emancipation of the Jews Archives and Special Collections Assistant and PhD candidate in history Containing seven linear feet of French Consistory materials and two linear feet of international Judaica the Consistoire Central Israélite de France collection at Brandeis provides a sweeping view of the French Jewish community from the mid-18th through the first third of the 20th-century Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of this collection is its provenance and relation to an ongoing debate in the academic world regarding the line between preservation and appropriation Purchased in good faith by Brandeis some decades ago from a man named Zosa Szajkowski this is but one of several similar collections held by institutions around the United States spent much of his life collecting French Judaica and selling or donating it to interested institutions (including Hebrew Union College Jewish Theological Seminary and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research) One of the many Jewish scholars who traveled to Europe in the years surrounding World War II to save European Judaica from destruction Szajkowski was in good company in these endeavors and much of his work during this era can be seen as the liberation or preservation of endangered and vital materials But he continued removing materials long after the war was over and long after the danger was gone Professor Lisa Leff of American University who is currently in progress on a study of the intriguing Mr suggests that while the objective threat may have been gone during much of his collecting period Zosa Szajkowski strongly believed postwar Europe to be an unsafe and unhealthy home for Jews and their history and continued to think of himself as a liberator Professor Leff points out that although it is all but impossible to know the origin of these particular materials with any certainty Szajkowski was twice arrested for (and once convicted of) theft and those thefts raise questions about the collection's provenance While there is good reason to think that much of what Mr Szajkowski sold to Brandeis was not purely what can certainly be said about both his work and this collection is that they have allowed scholars extraordinary access to the workings of a fundamental institution of French Jewish history The Consistoire Central Israélite de France was an administrative body (modeled on the Catholic Church and the Protestant Consistories) through which the Jewish community organized self-governed and interacted with the French state It was created by Napoleon in the early years of the 19th century and exists (in altered format) to this day Despite having a complicated and none-too-altruistic relationship with the Jews of France brought about a magnificent stronghold of Jewish life one that would sustain its community through two centuries of religious Napoleon gathered an Assembly of Jewish notables led by Rabbi David Sinzheim of Strasbourg and put to them 12 questions through which he established the relationship between the laws of the Jewish community and the laws of France The answers to these questions laid the groundwork for the future consistorial laws In 1807 he established a Grand Sanhedrin (supreme legal body of Jewish law) an institution that had not sat for roughly 1500 years in conjunction with a committee of Sanhedrin members Every department where at least 2,000 Jewish people lived could create a consistory and appoint a Chief Rabbi; those with fewer than 2,000 could combine with others to form a regional consistory All were to be overseen by a central consistory and the Chief Rabbi of France This collection documents the workings of the many provincial consistories as well as the Central Consistory in Paris and gives a detailed picture of the ways in which these bodies oversaw both the religious and the secular aspects of French Jewish life The business of the Consitories can be seen to be trifold The religious aspects included the election of the Chief Rabbis the establishment and running of the Synagogue and Beth Din (rabbinical court) the regulation of kosher butchers and funerary rites The second function can be generally classified under the rubric of social welfare: the creation and maintenance of orphanages The third category was that of secular and political administration including the maintenance of a strong relationship with the French government and between the consistories Boasting documents dating from long before the French Revolution to the interwar years of the 20th-century this collection tells the complicated story of the relationship of the Jewish community both to itself and to the French State The material within the two linear feet of non-consistorial Judaica is as wide ranging geographically as the consistorial materials are temporally While many of the pieces revolve around French Jewry there is a significant section devoted to its relationships with Jewish societies in countries around the world There are several pieces of correspondence from and to various notables in the international Jewish community including Baron Edmond James de Rothschild and Lucien Wolf The relationship between Jews and the French State during times of war is documented in materials from the Jewish community in Bordeaux’s 28 districts during the French Revolution as well as the activities of French Jewry during World War I This material opens a window onto the interactions of the worldwide Jewish community both within itself and with the secular community While this collection has considerable scholarly merit in its own right scholars may find its connections to other Brandeis Special Collections holdings to be particularly interesting the Lipschutz Collection of Dreyfusiana and French Judaica and the Benjamin A Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs Considering the wide time frame of both the Consistoire and the Lipschutz collection The interactions between the two collections are related both to French Jewish life in general and to the Dreyfus Affair in particular: both collections make noteworthy references to Zadoc Kahn who officiated at Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus’s wedding and testified on Dreyfus’ behalf during his trial and its aftermath The Consistoire collection also contains correspondence and other materials regarding La Vraie Parole a journal created and edited by Isadore Singer in order to counter the effects of Édouard Drumont’s virulently anti-Semitic La Libre Parole (of which the Lipschutz collection has a number of editions) While Drumont’s paper was a driving force behind the anti-Dreyfusard movement Singer made La Vraie Parole a vocal and staunch supporter of Captain Dreyfus Relating more specifically to Consistorial matters included as well in the Lipschutz collection is a handwritten “Allocution” addressed to the president of the Central Consistory The third box of the Consistoire collection begins with documentation of the Metz consistory and the Lipschutz collection contains several documents pertaining to that community not the least interesting of which is the typed report on the Jews of Metz written by its Chief Rabbi Nathan Netter (The Consistoire collection contains two letters specifically relating to the work of Rabbi Netter) The Lipschutz collection boasts correspondence between Chief Rabbi of France Dreyfuss and Manuel the Secretary General of the Central Consistory Included as well in the Consistoire collection are some letters of Adolphe Crémieux a French Jewish statesman and lawyer who served as vice-president of the Central Consistory for close to 50 years Crémieux is caricatured in four of Honoré Daumier’s lithographs All four of these are held by the Special Collections Department at Brandeis in what is one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Daumier’s lithographs in the world The Consistoire Central Israélite de France collection at Brandeis opens the door to many levels of scholarly investigation It fleshes out the Special Collections’ growing collection of French history and Judaica it is a boon to historians and religious scholars alike and it will likely instigate discussions about the ethics behind the removal and preservation of historically significant documents and artifacts Heartfelt thanks to Professor Lisa Leff of American University for sharing her remarkable research and insight into Zosa Szajkowski and to Professor Jonathan Sarna of Brandeis University for pointing me in her direction Farber University Archives & Special Collections Goldfarb LibraryMS 045 Brandeis University 415 South Street Waltham 781-736-4657archives@brandeis.edu