Chapter 3 Scandalous Glass House: on modernist transparency in architecture and life

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Note on Place Names, Personal Names, and Transliterations ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I Tradition and Rebellion
6. Chapter 1 “The Holiday That Applies to Everyone” ararat kleynkunst theater and the challenge of populist modernism 15
7. Chapter 2 Elkhonen Vogler, Forgotten Poet of Yung-Vilne, in Vilna and the Litvak Borderlands 37
8. Chapter 3 Scandalous Glass House: on modernist transparency in architecture and life 56
9. Chapter 4 Jewish Expressionism between Discourses of Revival and Degeneration. The yung-yidish group 75
10. PART II Performers and Audiences
11. Chapter 5 The Theatrics of Bais Yaakov 97
12. Chapter 6 A Spectacle of Differences: Bracha zefira’s tour of poland in 1929 113
13. Chapter 7 Music of “the Foreign Nations” or “Native Culture” concert programming in interwar lwów as a discourse about jewish musical identities 127
14. Chapter 8 From Lodzermensz to Szmonces and Back: on the multidirectional flow of culture 152
15. Chapter 9 The Layered Meanings of an Unbuilt Monument: kraków jews commemorate the polish king casimir the great 171
16. Chapter 10 Mapping Modern Jewish Kraków: women—cultural production—space 188
17. Chapter 11 Movie Theaters and the Development of Jewish Public Space in Interwar Poland 212
18. Chapter 12 The Politics of Jewish Youth Movement Culture in Interwar Poland’s Eastern Borderlands 228
19. Acknowledgments 249
20. Appendix: Soundscapes of Modernity Program 253
21. Selected Bibliography 267
22. Notes on Contributors 287
23. Index 291