Jewish country houses / edited by Juliet Carey and Abigail Green ; photography by Helene Binet.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carey, Juliet, editor.

Green, Abigail, editor.

Binet, Hélène, photographer.

Series:

Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series

The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Country homes--Europe--History.

Country homes.

Mansions--Europe--History.

Mansions.

Architecture, Domestic--Europe--History--Pictorial works.

Architecture, Domestic.

Jews--Homes and haunts--Europe.

Jews.

Rich people--Europe--History.

Rich people.

Jews--Europe--Biography.

Physical Description:

351 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"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. Lavishly illustrated with historical images and a new body of work by the celebrated photographer Hélène Binet, this book is the first to tell their 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 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A Jewish and a European story / Abigail Green, Tom Stammers and Juliet Carey with Silvia Davoli and Jaclyn Granick

A combination of many visions / Hélène Binet

1. The stories we tell: Salomons Estate / Tom Stammers and Abigail Green

2. Hughenden Manor: a home for a prime minister / Robert Bandy

3. The Château de Ferrières: a European powerhouse / Pauline Prevost-Marcilhacy

4. In Walpole's footsteps: Lady Waldegrave at Strawberry Hill / Nino Strachey

5. Playing with the past at Waddesdon Manor / Juliet Carey

6. Two houses. two countries, one cosmopolitan family: Torre Alfina and Champs-sur-Marne / Alice S. Legé

7. Agriculture et ars: villa 'La Montesca' in Città di Castello / Luisa Levi D'Ancona Modena

8. Kérylos: 'the Greek Villa' / Henri Lavagne (translated by Abigail Green)

9. Schloss Freienwalde: the Jewish restoration of a Prussian legacy / Martin Sabrow (translated by Abigail Green)

10. Nymans: an English house and garden / John Hilary

11. Max Liebermann's villa at Lake Wannsee: a public retreat / Lucy Wasensteiner

12. From the palatial to the modern: industry and luxury in Habsburg Europe / Petr Svoboda

13. Trent Park: a house under German occupation / Helen Fry

14. An American postscript / Juliet Carey and Abigail Green

Exploring the traces / Abigail Green with Juliet Carey, Silvia Davoli, Jaclyn Granick and Tom Stammers..

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Rosenlund fund bookplate.

ISBN:

1684582202

9781684582204

OCLC:

1430497232