Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-415) 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.