Building after Auschwitz : Jewish architecture and the memory of the Holocaust / Gavriel D. Rosenfeld.

Author/creator Rosenfeld, Gavriel David, 1967-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, 2011.
Descriptionix, 438 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Subjects

Portion of title Jewish architecture and memory after the Holocaust
Contents Introduction -- Jewish architecture before the Holocaust -- From the wilderness to World War II: a brief history of Jewish architecture -- After the Holocaust: Jewish architecture in the era of Modernism -- Adorno's echoes: the Holocaust's cultural legacy at mid-century -- American synagogue architecture and the missing Holocaust -- Synagogues in Germany: between forgetting and remembrance -- Jewish architects and secular Jewish architecture -- Toward a more Jewish modernism: the architecture of Louis I. Kahn -- Jewish architecture in the postmodern era -- Postmodernism, post-Holocaust culture, and architectural discourse -- The Deconstructivists: Eisenman, Libeskind, and Gehry -- Jewish architects between alienation and assimilation -- Holocaust museums: a new form of Jewish architecture? -- Jewish architecture between nightmare, nostalgia, and normalcy -- Conclusion.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 357-415) and index.
LCCN 2011009738
ISBN9780300169140 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0300169140 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks NA680 .R655 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold