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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Building After Auschwitz
• Author: Gavriel D Rosenfeld
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 448
• EAN: 9780300169140
• ISBN: 0300169140
• ID: 04417664
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Weight: 1374 g
• Dimensions: 195 × 259 × 37 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. October 2011

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