My current research project, tentatively entitled Modernist Design for Modern Jewry in Interwar Europe, examines the connection between modern architecture and Jewish identity in transformation during the 1920s and 1930s. The design of Jewish communal infrastructure, such as synagogues, schools, and cemeteries, indicates how religiously and politically liberal Jews sought to represent their community to the wider society. Embracing modernist architecture, including the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) style, they made a statement about the modernity of their Judaism and the place of Jews in a progressive Central European society. After the Nazis excluded Jews from general society in Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, Jewish émigrés further spread both modernist architecture and a version of liberal Judaism to Britain, the United States, and Palestine. Working with Jewish communal publications, Jewish communal records, architectural and design journals from the era, and municipal building department records, I hope to illuminate this moment in European Jewish history and its larger significance.