The New "Unique Function" of the Jewish Community Center

The New
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 1979
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The author advocates abandoning the ideal expressed in Sanford Solender's 1955 paper "The Unique Function of the Jewish Community Center," arguing that in fact the Jewish Community Center (JCC) does not provide any unique functions, nor need it do so. Rather, he argues, the JCC is another agency in a complex of agencies, all committed to the same objectives, each utilizing similar and separate methods, each desiring to serve the total Jewish community, and each recognizing that the person needs to be served in a holistic way. In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.55 no.3, Spring 1979.

Louis Kahn's Situated Modernism

Louis Kahn's Situated Modernism
Author: Sarah Williams Goldhagen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780300077865

She demonstrates instead that Kahn's architecture is grounded in his deeply held modernist political, social, and artistic ideals, which guided him as he sought to rework modernism into a socially transformative architecture appropriate for the postwar world.".

JWB Year Book

JWB Year Book
Author: National Jewish Welfare Board
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Total Pages: 402
Release: 1961
Genre: Jews
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