Joachim Schlör Book order

Anfang Mai 2005 wurde die offizielle Gedenkstätte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zur Erinnerung an die Ermordung von sechs Millionen Juden in Europa eingeweiht. Die spektakuläre Anlage, die von dem amerikanischen Architekten Peter Eisenmann entworfen wurde, sorgte im Vorfeld für jahrelange, heftige Diskussionen. 2711 Betonblöcke auf einer Fläche von 19.000 qm in unmittelbarer Nähe des Brandenburger Tores bilden eine große Welle aus Stein, eine begehbare Skulptur. Zweisprachige Ausgabe, Text in Deutsch und Englisch.

In Tel Aviv – From Dream to City Joachim Schlör brings the reader closer to this "most talked about city." The author interviewed numerous inhabitants and gathered information from books, travel accounts, newspaper articles and memoirs. He looks at the city from its origins right up to the Tel Aviv as a centre of immigration that contains reminders of each immigrant's mother country; as a catalyst between East and West; and – not least – as a place of transformation for Jews who fled the Nazi terror.

This elegantly written book describes the changes in the perception and experience of the night in three great European cities: Paris, Berlin and London. The lighting up of the European city by gas and electricity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought about a new relationship with the night, in respect of both work and pleasure. Nights in the Big City explores this new awareness of the city in all its ramifications.Joachim Schlör has spent his days sifting through countless police and church archives, and first-hand accounts, and his nights exploring the highways and byways of these three great capitals. Illustrated with haunting and evocative photographs by, among others, Brandt and Kertész, and filled with contemporary literary references, Nights in the Big City has already been acclaimed in the German press as a milestone in the cultural history of the city.