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Thoroughly Modernist Jewish Design

JL;DR SUMMARY An exhibition at San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum titled "Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism" highlights the significant contributions of Jewish designers to the modernist movement in the mid-20th century. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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American JewryCultural IdentityPostwar AmericaContemporary Jewish MuseumModernist ArchitectureModern DesignSynagogue DesignJewish DesignersMidcentury ModernismDonald Albrecht

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San Francisco, California, United States
"You need only visit Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism, a brand-new exhibition at San Franciscos Contemporary Jewish Museum to see how fickle we can be."
El Paso, Texas, United States
"As they took root in the suburbs, synagogue after synagogue elected to go modern. In El Paso, Texas, and Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; in Los Angeles and Baltimore, the building committees charged with coming up with both the finances for and the form of the postwar synagogue uniformly put their faith in the unfussy, streamlined strictures of modernism rather than in the colorful Moorish or Byzantine styles that had long characterized their predecessors."
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, United States
"As they took root in the suburbs, synagogue after synagogue elected to go modern. In El Paso, Texas, and Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; in Los Angeles and Baltimore, the building committees charged with coming up with both the finances for and the form of the postwar synagogue uniformly put their faith in the unfussy, streamlined strictures of modernism rather than in the colorful Moorish or Byzantine styles that had long characterized their predecessors."
Los Angeles, California, United States
"As they took root in the suburbs, synagogue after synagogue elected to go modern. In El Paso, Texas, and Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; in Los Angeles and Baltimore, the building committees charged with coming up with both the finances for and the form of the postwar synagogue uniformly put their faith in the unfussy, streamlined strictures of modernism rather than in the colorful Moorish or Byzantine styles that had long characterized their predecessors."
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
"As they took root in the suburbs, synagogue after synagogue elected to go modern. In El Paso, Texas, and Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; in Los Angeles and Baltimore, the building committees charged with coming up with both the finances for and the form of the postwar synagogue uniformly put their faith in the unfussy, streamlined strictures of modernism rather than in the colorful Moorish or Byzantine styles that had long characterized their predecessors."
New York, United States
"More than a decade ago, Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture, 1890-1918, an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, clearly and vividly established the relationship between European Jewry and modernism."

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