Title
Building After Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and Jewish Memory since the Holocaust
Files
Document Type
Book
Description/Summary
• Finalist: 2011 National Jewish Book Award (category of visual arts)
• Finalist: 2011 Foreword Book of the Year (category of architecture)
Book description: Since the end of World War II, Jewish architects have risen to unprecedented international prominence. Whether as modernists, postmodernists, or deconstructivists, architects such as Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Louis I. Kahn, Daniel Libeskind, Richard Meier, Moshe Safdie, Robert A.M. Stern, and Stanley Tigerman have made pivotal contributions to postwar architecture. They have also decisively shaped Jewish architectural history, as many of their designs are influenced by Jewish themes, ideas, and imagery. Building After Auschwitz is the first major study to examine the origins of this "new Jewish architecture." Historian Gavriel D. Rosenfeld describes this cultural development as the result of important shifts in Jewish memory and identity since the Holocaust, and cites the rise of postmodernism, multiculturalism, and Holocaust consciousness as a catalyst. In showing how Jewish architects responded to the Nazi genocide in their work, Rosenfeld's study sheds new light on the evolution of Holocaust memory.
ISBN
9780300169140
Publication Date
2011
Publication Information
Rosenfeld, G. (2011) Building After Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and Jewish Memory since the Holocaust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011).
Recommended Citation
Rosenfeld, Gavriel D., "Building After Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and Jewish Memory since the Holocaust" (2011). History Faculty Book Gallery. 8.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/history-books/8