Designing transformation : Jews and cultural identity in Central European modernism By exploring how Jewish designers and architects played a key role in shaping the interwar architecture of Central Europe this book sheds new light on the importance of integrating Jews into design and aesthetic history. Leading historians curators archivists and architects present their critical analyses further to design the past and push forward a transformation in the historical consciousness of Central Europe. By reconsidering the seminal role of Central European émigré and exiled architects and designers in shaping todays global design cultures this book further strengthens humanistic progressive and pluralistic cultural trends in Europe today