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They laid the foundation : lives and works of German-speaking Jewish architects in Palestine 1918-1948

Title
They laid the foundation : lives and works of German-speaking Jewish architects in Palestine 1918-1948 / Myra Warhaftig ; [translated from the German by Andrea Lerner].
Author
Warhaftig, Myra.
Publication
Tübingen : Wasmuth ; New York, N.Y. : Available through D.A.P., ©2007.

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Description
413 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 28 cm
Uniform Title
Sie legten den Grundstein. English
Alternative Title
Sie legten den Grundstein.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Architecture, German > Palestine > History > 20th century
  • Jews, German > Palestine > Biography
  • Jewish architects > Palestine > Biography
  • International style (Architecture) > Palestine
  • Architecture, German
  • International style (Architecture)
  • Jewish architects
  • Jews, German
  • Architekt
  • Architecture > Israel > 20th century
  • Architecture, Modern > Israel > 20th century
  • Jewish architects > Germany > 20th century
  • Middle East > Palestine
  • Palästina
  • Deutsche
  • Juden
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • History.
Note
  • Title of the original German edition: Sie legten den Grundstein: Leben und Wirken deutschsprachiger jüdischer Architekten in Palästina, 1918-1948, published by Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen, 1996.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 408-413).
Contents
The pioneers. Alex Baerwald (1877-1930) ; Richard Kauffmann (1887-1958) ; Fritz Kornberg (1889-1944) ; Leopold Krakauer (1890-1954) ; Jochanan (Eugen) Kuczynski (1891-1980) ; Lotte Cohn (1893-1983) ; Jacob Pinkerfeld (1897-1956) ; Josef Neufeld (1899-1980) ; Carl Rubin (1899-1955) ; Max Loeb (1901-1962) -- The Bauhaus disciples. Arieh Sharon (1900-1984) ; Edgar Hed (Hecht) (1904-1956) ; Chanan Frenkel (1905-1957) ; Shlomo Bernstein (1907-1969) ; Shmuel Mestechkin (1908-2004) ; Munio Gitai (Weinraub) (1909-1970) ; Alfred Mansfeld (1912-2004) -- The persecuted. Oskar Kauffmann (1873-1956) ; Eugen Stolzer (1886-1958) ; Josef Rings (1878-1957) ; Alexander Klein (1879-1961) ; Zeev (Wilhelm) Haller (1884-1956) ; Moshe Gerstel (1886-1961) ; Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953) ; Robert Friedmann (1888-1940) ; Adolf Rading (1888-1957) ; Bruno Kalitzki (1890-1953) ; Paul Engelmann (1891-1965) ; Leo Adler (1891-1962) ; Kurt Reinsch (1892-1952) ; Harry Rosenthal (1892-1966) ; Arthur Abraham Schragenheim (1893-1981) ; Josef (Ossip) Klarwein (1893-1970) ; Eugen Szekey (Szekely) (1894-1962) ; Heinz Rau (1896-1965) ; Yehuda (Karl Ludwig) Bienheim (1900-1967) ; David (Wilhelm) Pienaker (1900-1984) ; Elsa Gisoni-Mandelstamm (1901-1978) ; Werner Joseph Wittkower (1903-1997) ; Zeev (Wilhelm) Bruck (1904-1973) ; Judith Stolzer-Segal (1904-1990) ; Gideon Kaminka (1904-1985) ; Theodor Menkes (1906-1973) ; Uriel (Otto) Schiller (1907-1992) ; Yehuda Kurt Unger (1907-1989) ; Artur Glikson (1911-1966) -- The founders. Edith and Dr. Reuben Hecht : The story of a family and a silo ; Hilda and Dr. Richard Strauss : The story of a family and a dairy industry ; Yekutiel and Shmuel Federmann : The story of a family and the Dan Hotels ; Stef Wertheimer : The story of a man and a metal industry.
ISBN
  • 9783803006769
  • 3803006767
LCCN
  • 2008500252
  • 9783803006769
OCLC
  • ocn154788597
  • 154788597
  • SCSB-1456892
Owning Institutions
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