Description
An exploration of the world of Jewish country houses, their architecture and collections, and the lives of the extraordinary men and women who created, transformed, and shaped them.
Country houses are powerful symbols of national identity, evoking the glamorous world of the landowning aristocracy. Jewish country housesproperties that were owned, built, or renewed by Jewstell a more complex story of prejudice and integration, difference and connection. Many had spectacular art collections and gardens. Some were stages for lavish entertaining, while others inspired the European avant-garde. A few are now museums of international importance, many more are hidden treasures, and all were beloved homes that bear witness to the remarkable achievements of newly emancipated Jews across Europeand to a dream of belonging that mostly came to a brutal end with the Holocaust.
Lavishly illustrated with historical images and a new body of work by the celebrated photographer H?l?ne Binet, this book is the first to tell the story of Jewish country houses, from the playful historicism of the National Trusts Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire to the modernist masterpiece that is the Villa Tugendhat in the Czech city of Brnoand across the pond to the United States, where American Jews infused the European country house tradition with their own distinctive concerns and experiences. This book emerges from a four-year research project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council that aims to establish Jewish country houses as a focus for research, a site of European memory, and a significant aspect of European Jewish heritage and material culture.
Author: Juliet Carey
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Published: 11/07/2024
Series: Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry
Pages: 300
Weight: 4lbs
Size: 10.70h x 8.40w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781684582204
Language: English
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