Building after Auschwitz : Jewish architecture and the memory of the Holocaust / Gavriel D. Rosenfeld.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Jewish architecture before the Holocaust. From the wilderness to World War II : a brief history of Jewish architecture -- After the Holocaust : Jewish architecture in the era of Modernism. Adorno's echoes : the Holocaust's cultural legacy at mid-century -- American synagogue architecture and the missing Holocaust -- Synagogues in Germany : between forgetting and remembrance -- Jewish architects and secular Jewish architecture -- Toward a more Jewish modernism : Louis L. Kahn -- Jewish architecture in the postmodern era. Postmodernism, post-Holocaust culture, and architectural discourse -- The Deconstructivists : Eisenman, Libeskind, and Gehry -- Jewish architects between alienation and assimilation -- Holocaust museums : a new form of Jewish architecture -- Jewish architecture between nightmare, nostalgia, and normalcy.