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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454887903321

Autore

Stratigakos Despina

Titolo

A women's Berlin [[electronic resource] ] : building the modern city / / Despina Stratigakos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2008

ISBN

0-8166-6644-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Disciplina

720.82

720.8209432

Soggetti

Architecture and women - Germany - Berlin

Space (Architecture) - Germany - Berlin

Electronic books.

Berlin (Germany) Social conditions 19th century

Berlin (Germany) Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Forgotten Metropolis; 1 Remapping Berlin: A Modern Woman's Guidebook to the City; 2 From Piccadilly to Potsdamer Strasse: The Politics of Clubhouse Architecture; 3 A Home of Our Own: Single Women and the New Domestic Architecture; 4 Exhibiting the New Woman: The Phenomenal Success of Die Frau in Haus und Beruf; 5 The Architecture of Social Work: Workers' Clubs, Social Welfare Institutions, and the Debate over Female Housing Inspectors; Epilogue: What a Woman Must Know about Berlin, Twenty Years Later; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Architectural History/Women's Studies"Despina Stratigakos takes us on a fascinating journey into a largely forgotten city at the heart of early twentieth-century metropolitan Berlin. Both imaginary and physical, A Women's Berlin is a space of agency in which women architects, designers, and patrons shaped not only a network of new institutions in the city but also a modern female subjectivity and urban identity for themselves as public citizens." -Eve Blau, Harvard UniversityAround the beginning of the twentieth century, women began to claim Berlin as their own, expressing a vision of the Germ



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136083503321

Autore

Friedländer Saul

Titolo

When Memory Comes : The Classic Memoir

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Other Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-59051-808-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

LaneHelen R

MessudClaire

Disciplina

940.53/18/092 B

Soggetti

Jews - France

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - France

France Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The "classic of Holocaust literature" about childhood and family, faith and identity--from a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and featuring an introduction by Claire Messud ( The Guardian ).  Four months before Hitler came to power, Saul Friedländer was born in Prague to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1939, 7-year-old Saul and his family were forced to flee to France, where they lived through the German Occupation, until his parents' ill-fated attempt to flee to Switzerland. They were able to hide their son in a Roman Catholic seminary before being sent to Auschwitz where they were killed. After an imposed religious conversion, young Saul began training for priesthood. The birth of Israel prompted his discovery of his Jewish past and his true identity.   Friedländer brings his story movingly to life, shifting between his Israeli present and his European past with grace and restraint. His keen eye spares nothing, not even himself, as he explores the ways in which the loss of his parents, his conversion to Catholicism, and his deep-seated Jewish roots combined to shape him into the man he is today. Friedländer's retrospective view of his journey of grief and self-discovery provides readers with a rare experience: a memoir of feeling with intellectual backbone, in equal measure tender and insightful.