Jewish Country Houses (eBook)

Green Abigail Green, Carey Juliet Carey (Herausgeber)

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2024
567 Seiten
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78283-978-1 (ISBN)

Infos

'A magnificent work of scholarship' - Edmund de Waal'I learned something new on every beautifully illustrated page' - Neil MacGregor'A fascinating book about a long-forgotten world' - Hadley FreemanThrough a series of striking case studies this revelatory book explores 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 houses - properties that were owned, built, or renewed by Jews - tell 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 Europe - and to a dream of belonging that mostly came to a brutal end with the Holocaust. Beautifully illustrated with historical images and a new body of work by the celebrated photographer Helene Binet, this book is the first to tell that story: from the playful historicism of the National Trust's Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire to the modernist masterpiece that is the Villa Tugendhat in the Czech city of Brno - and across the Atlantic to the United States, where American Jews infused the European country house tradition with their own distinctive concerns and experiences.

Rezensionen

A fascinating book about a long-forgotten world.

An utterly absorbing book taking in architecture, art creation, patronage and collecting. it is a triumph of sensitive editing and an expression of compelling intellectual collaboration.

An absorbing, richly-textured history that illuminates how the aspirations of an ascendant Jewish elite transformed the traditional notion of the country house from a site of settled privilege into a dynamic microcosm of bold self-inscription - a catalyst for new forms of sociability, patronage, art collecting, and philanthropy. Interweaving a wide array of sources and perspectives from different cultures, these essays explore gripping tales of belonging and rejection, memory and erasure, dispossession and resilience.

This lusciously illustrated book provides an essential tour of the Jewish country houses of Europe and the UK. Each of the thirteen essays furnishes an authoritative understanding of a specific house and uses a combination of new and historic images to showcase the lives of the inhabitants and the homes' rich interiors. The final essay compares this tradition to Jewish American country houses. A must-have book for anyone interested in elegant houses or Jewish history.

I learned something new on every beautifully illustrated page. It sets the familiar country house story in a new, Europe-wide landscape, and tells a tale of often tragic splendour. The authors show that these are more than just houses - they are monuments to the long nineteenth-century battle between prejudice and assimilation, played out in magnificent buildings and princely collections.

This is a magnificent work of scholarship - it illuminates complex and ambiguous stories of assimilation and identity with verve and insight.

An impressively researched and illustrated book

A highly original approach to country house history, it combines a scholarly understanding of its subject with beautiful new photographs of their rich interiors, bolstered by historical images. A nuanced story of prejudice, identity and assimilation that's also stunning to look at, this is a book with a head as well as a heart.

A fascinating and thought-provoking book, filled with new ideas and unfamiliar houses. It is also a thing of beauty, elegantly designed and lavishly illustrated with historical images and some exquisitely moody photographs taken for the book by Hélène Binet, who hoped, she tells us, to capture 'an impalpable world made of hope and dreams' ... Carey and Green and the contributors are to be congratulated on a pioneering work of scholarship.

These houses . . . symbolize 'the dream of belonging' held by European Jews, and that moment when it seems possible. But the houses also represent something that is irreparably gone, destroyed by the Holocaust.

Impressively illustrated

Sheds new light on a previously overlooked category of country houses owned, renovated, and at times built by Jews and individuals of Jewish descent

Magnificent

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.11.2024
• Illustrationen: Binet Helene Binet
• Zusatzinfo: 250-300Mixture of National Trust archive and new photography
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Architecture • Country • Estates • Europe • Houses • jewishhistory • Jewish History • Jewish Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-978-X / 178283978X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-978-1 / 9781782839781