Research Catalog

Title

Jewish architects - Jewish architecture? / edited by Andreas Brämer, Katrin Kessler, Ulrich Knufinke & Mirko Przystawik.

Publication

• Petersberg : Michael Imhof Verlag ; [Braunschweig] : Bet Tfila, [2021]
• ©2021

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Additional Authors

• Brämer, Andreas,
• Kessler, Katrin,
• Knufinke, Ulrich,
• Przystawik, Mirko,

Description

215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm

Series Statement

Schriften der Bet Tfila - Forschungsstelle für jüdische Architektur in Europa ; Band 12

Uniform Title

Schriften der Bet Tfila--Forschungsstelle für jüdische Architektur in Europa ; Band 12.

Subject

• Jewish architects > Congresses
• Jewish architects
• Jewish architecture > History > Congresses
• Jewish architecture
• Synagogue architecture > History > Congresses
• Synagogue architecture

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• Conference papers from the 4th International Congress on Jewish Architecture, held November 6-8, 2018 in Hamburg.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Andreas Brämer -- Jewish architects - Jewish architecture? : biographical studies and architectural history as an interdisciplinary and international field of research / Ulrich Knufinke -- Maneschin the master builder : Jews as "architects" in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period? / Mirko Przystawik -- Henry Fernbach : his associates and his legacy / Joy Kestenbaum -- Arnold W. Brunner (1857-1925) : American's foremost Jewish architect / Samuel D. Gruber -- Ludwig Levy : an architect of Jewish faith? / Mirko Przystawik -- Jewish architects and their networds : the example of the Zionist architect Richard Michel / Katrin Kessler -- Design(ed) in public discourse : two competitions for a synagogue in early twentieth-century Vienna / Ulrike Unterweger -- Cinema architecture and the relationship between architecture and client : the case of Martin Punitzer and Gustav Neustein / Claudia Marcy & Günter Schlusche -- "Jewification" of Hungarian architecture the dispute of gentiles and Jews in 1906 / Rudolf Klein -- In Tel Aviv, Warsaw, and Gdynia : interwar Jewish architects from the Polish lands between Zionism and assimilation / Artur Tanikowski -- From Hamburg to Haifa : civil engineer Willy Weltsch / Sigal Davidi & Roland Jaeger -- The restless life of architect Judith Stolzer-Segall (1904-90) : Russia-Germany-Israel-Germany / Edina Meyer-Maril -- Czech Jewish architect Karl Kohn and the shaping of modernism in Ecuador / Zuzana Güllendi-Cimprichová -- From fortune to failure? : Three emigré architects and synagogue design in Central Europe and England, 1933-63 / Sharman Kadish -- Joseph Barsky and his search for a "Hebrew" architecture / Sergey R. Kravtsov -- The competition for the design of Nazareth Illit's Central Synagogue / Naomi Simhony -- Relations and disruptions : Jewish architects in postwar Germany / Alexandra Klei -- At the roots of modernity : the intrinsic Jewish component of modern architecture / Paola Ardizzola -- Jews, architecture, and post-war Nationalism in the UK / Stephen Games.

Call Number

NA4690

ISBN

• 9783731911616
• 3731911612

LCCN

9783731911616

OCLC

• on1273112347
• 1273112347

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries