Building after Auschwitz : Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust

Rosenfeld, Gavriel D.

ISBN 10: 0300169140 / ISBN 13: 9780300169140

Published by Yale University Press, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building after Auschwitz : Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300169140
• ISBN 13: 9780300169140
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The first major study to examine the rise to prominence of Jewish architects since 1945 and the connection of their work to the legacy of the Holocaust

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.

About the Author

Gavriel D. Rosenfeld is associate professor of history at Fairfield University. His books include Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich and The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism.