Building after Auschwitz
Subtitle: Jewish architecture and the memory of the Holocaust
By: Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300169140
Subjects: Judaism and architecture; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and architecture; Jews; Identity; Modern Architecture
Other titles: Jewish architecture and memory after the Holocaust
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Jewish architecture before the Holocaust. From the wilderness to World War II : a brief history of Jewish architecture; title: After the Holocaust : Jewish architecture in the era of Modernism. Adorno's echoes : the Holocaust's cultural legacy at mid-century; title: American synagogue architecture and the missing Holocaust; title: Synagogues in Germany : between forgetting and remembrance; title: Jewish architects and secular Jewish architecture; title: Toward a more Jewish modernism : Louis L. Kahn; title: Jewish architecture in the postmodern era. Postmodernism, post-Holocaust culture, and architectural discourse; title: The Deconstructivists : Eisenman, Libeskind, and Gehry; title: Jewish architects between alienation and assimilation; title: Holocaust museums : a new form of Jewish architecture; title: Jewish architecture between nightmare, nostalgia, and normalcy.