The Jewish contribution to modern architecture, 1830-1930 / by Fredric Bedoire ; translated from the Swedish with grants from the Swedish Council of Science by Roger Tanner.

Main entry:

Bedoire, Fredric, 1945-

Title & Author:

The Jewish contribution to modern architecture, 1830-1930 / by Fredric Bedoire ; translated from the Swedish with grants from the Swedish Council of Science by Roger Tanner.

Publication:

Jersey City, NJ : KTAV Pub. House, 2003.

Description:

pages cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Jewish European as patron of architecture -- The ghetto background -- The House of Rothschild -- Paris : capital of the nineteenth century -- Berlin and things Jewish -- Vienna -- Budapest -- Judapest -- The promised city : Nagyvarad, Lodz, New York -- Goteborg, city of liberalism -- The origins of a modern architecture.

Summary:

"A book about architecture and society, a wide-ranging cultural and historical depiction of successful Jewish entrepreneurs in an increasingly industrialized Europe, from the dissolution of the ghetto and the 1848 liberation movement to Hitler's assumption of power in Germany. Inspired by Jewish messianism, they pursued a modern culture, free from the old feudal society." "The principal characters are bankers, merchants, and industrialists together with their architects, from Schinkel and Semper to Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. They built in Paris, Berlin, and Vienna, Budapest and New York and Chicago, and in more remote centers of Jewish entrepreneurial activity, such as Oradea (Nagyvarad) in present-day Romania and Lodz in Poland, Stockholm and Gothenburg in Sweden. The buildings shed new light on the Europe of today, but also on a Europe that is lost beyond recall." "Much of the modern European urban landscape was inspired by the initiative of these industrialists and philanthropists. Coincidental to the main thesis, this volume is also a history of Jews in the period."--BOOK JACKET. /ñ.

Resources:
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Table of contents

ISBN:

0881258083
9780881258080

Subject:

Architecture Europe 19th century.
Architecture Europe History 20th century.
Architecture United States History 19th century.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Judaism Europe History 19th century.
Judaism Europe History 20th century.
Judaism United States History 19th century.
Judaism United States History 20th century.
Jewish capitalists and financiers Europe History 19th century.
Jewish capitalists and financiers Europe History 20th century.
Jewish capitalists and financiers United States History 19th century.
Jewish capitalists and financiers United States History 20th century.
Architecture Europe 19e siècle.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Judaïsme Europe Histoire 1789-
Judaïsme Europe Histoire 20e siècle.
Judaïsme États-Unis Histoire 1789-
Judaïsme États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Capitalistes et financiers juifs Europe Histoire 19e siècle.
Capitalistes et financiers juifs Europe Histoire 20e siècle.
Capitalistes et financiers juifs États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Capitalistes et financiers juifs États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Jewish capitalists and financiers.
Judaism.
Architecture Europe 20th century
Architecture United States 19th century
Architecture United States 20th century
Europe.
United States.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Tanner, Robert.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256690
Call No.: BIB 187097
Status: Available

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