Rosenfeld, Gavriel David, 1967-

Building after Auschwitz : Jewish architecture and the memory of the Holocaust / Jewish architecture and memory after the Holocaust Gavriel D. Rosenfeld. - New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, 2011. - ix, 438 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-415) and index.

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: Louis L. 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.

9780300169140 (cloth : alk. paper)

2011009738


Architecture, Modern--20th century.
Architecture, Modern--21st century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and architecture.
Judaism and architecture.
Jews--Identity.

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