Building after Auschwitz

Building after Auschwitz

Rosenfeld,  Gavriel  David

Building after Auschwitz: Jewish architecture and the memory of the Holocaust.

New Haven, Yale University Press, 2011

 

Since the end of World War II, we witness famous Jewish architects such as Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Louis I. Kahn, Daniel Libeskind, Moshe Safdie and Stanley Tigerman, that their designs are influenced by Jewish themes, ideas and the shifts in Jewish memory and identity since the Holocaust.

Building after Auschwitz, is the first major study to examine what can be referred as "new Jewish architecture …"

 

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Book review - Oxford Journals, American Historical Review

Book review - Project Muse, German Studies Review

Book review - Oxford Journals, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

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