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"In thematic terms, the artwork should engage with the Jewish history and culture of Frankfurt since emancipation, a brief sketch of which follows. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Frankfurt’s Jews began to leave the enclosed district in which they had been forced to live during the early modern eravand settle in Ostend and later other parts of the city. In 1864 they were accorded full civil rights. Jewish citizens of the city of Frankfurt – included the Rothschild family, which originated from Frankfurt and pursued business interests throughout Europe –established facilities for the sick, aged, girls and women throughout the city, created educational institutions, such as the first public universal library in the Rothschild Palais and Frankfurt’s privately funded university, and were involved in social and political movements around issues such as the equality of women and the introduction of labour laws. Researchers and intellectuals in Frankfurt founded their own institutes, such as the Institute for Experimental Therapy, the Institute for Social Research and the Frankfurt Psychoanalytic Institute, and established new disciplines within the university, such as sociology and neurology. Frankfurt played a significant role in the emergence of so-called Neo-Orthodoxy and the Jewish reform movement– two currents that continue to shape the Jewish communities in Europe and the USA today. The Institute for Adult Jewish Education (Judisches Lehrhaus) established in the city following the First World War made a decisive contribution to the Jewish renaissance in the Weimar Republic."