Main entry:

Davidi, Sigal, author.

Title & Author:

Modern architecture and gender in pre-state Israel / Sigal Davidi.

Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2025]
©2025

Description:

xxxiii, 339 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Bonot erets ḥadashah : adrikhaliyot ṿe-irgune nashim bi-teḳufat ha-Mandaṭ = Building a new land : women architects and women's organizations in Mandatory Palestine.
First published in 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Part 1. Ideological Foundations -- 1. Towards a New Society -- 2. A Pioneer and a Professional: The Woman Architect in Mandatory Palestine -- 3. Modernist Conceptions and the Women's New Institutions -- Part 2. The Building Project -- 4. Lotte Cohn and Elsa Gidoni: Architets for WIZO -- 5. Elsa Gidoni and Genia Averbuch: Architects for the Women Workers' Council and WLI -- 6. Genia Averbuch designs for WIZO and the Mizrachi Women's Organization of America -- 7. Afterword -- 8. Appendix: Fourteen Architects and One Home Reformer.

Summary:

"This book is a historical and cultural study of the work of the Jewish women architects who flourished in Palestine under the British Mandate (1920-1948). This comprehensive study adds a new chapter to the story of women in architecture in the twentieth century, demonstrating how women architects made a key contribution to the design of the emergent Israeli built environment. Through in-depth historical documentation based on newly discovered archival material, Sigal Davidi analyzes the influence of European modernism on the design of institutions for the welfare of women and children. These were developed by Zionist women's organizations that drew inspiration from the idea of the New Woman. This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the study of gender, architecture and the Jewish society in pre-State Israel. It provides a fresh look at this period based on new research and is intended for academics as well as for a general audience"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9783031966675 (hardcover)
3031966678 (hardcover)
(ebook)
9783031966682

Subject:

Women architects Palestine History 20th century.
Women architects Palestine Biography.
Women architects Israel Biography.
Women Palestine Social conditions 20th century.
Jewish women Palestine Social conditions 20th century.
Women architects Israel.
Femmes Palestine Conditions sociales 20e siècle.
Femmes architectes Palestine Histoire 20e siècle.
Femmes architectes Israël.
Juives Palestine Conditions sociales 20e siècle.
Femmes architectes Palestine Biographies.
Femmes architectes Israël Biographies.
Women Social conditions
Women architects History.
Women architects
Women Eretz Israel Social conditions 1917-1948
Women architects Eretz Israel History 20th century.
Jewish women Eretz Israel Social conditions 20th century
Israel

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325939
Call No.: 325939
Copy: 1
Status: Available