{"product_id":"jewish-country-houses","title":"Jewish Country Houses","description":"\u003cp\u003eA unique angle on Jewish and country house history, beautifully illustrated with original photography by leading architectural photographer Hélène Binet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"full-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThrough a series of striking case studies this revelatory book explores the world of Jewish country houses, their architecture and collections – and the lives of the extraordinary men and women who created, transformed and shaped them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCountry houses are powerful symbols of national identity, evoking the glamorous world of the landowning aristocracy. Jewish country houses – properties that were owned, built, or renewed by Jews – tell a more complex story of prejudice and integration, difference and connection. Many had spectacular art collections and gardens. Some were stages for lavish entertaining, while others inspired the European avant-garde. A few are now museums of international importance, many more are hidden treasures, and all were beloved homes that bear witness to the remarkable achievements of newly emancipated Jews across Europe – and to a dream of belonging that mostly came to a brutal end with the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeautifully illustrated with historical images and a new body of work by the celebrated photographer Hélène Binet, this book is the first to tell that story: from the playful historicism of the National Trust’s Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire to the modernist masterpiece that is the Villa Tugendhat in the Czech city of Brno – and across the Atlantic to the United States, where American Jews infused the European country house tradition with their own distinctive concerns and experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Waddesdon Manor Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56982857154885,"sku":"BOOKJEWICH147188","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0971\/2861\/2165\/files\/ShopifyWineBottleShots2026_2_c9e23046-34cf-4741-9565-5d0bbd192eb6.png?v=1769429523","url":"https:\/\/shop.waddesdon.org.uk\/products\/jewish-country-houses","provider":"Waddesdon Manor Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}