Visualizing and exhibiting Jewish space and history

Visualizing and exhibiting Jewish space and history / edited by Richard I. Cohen.

Continuing its distinguished tradition of focusing on central political, sociological, and cultural issues of Jewish life in the last century, Volume XXVI of the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry examines the visual revolution that has overtaken Jewish cultural life in the twentieth century onwar...

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Corporate Author: Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu ʻa. sh. Avraham Harman
Other Authors: Cohen, Richard I.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Published for the Institute by Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Series:Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 25.
Subjects:
Jewish art.
Jewish artists > Exhibitions.
Jewish museums > Europe > History.
Jewish museums.
Museums > Collection management.
collections management.
ART > History > General.
Jewish art
Jewish artists
Jewish museums
Museums > Collection management
Europe
Exhibition catalogs
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The visual revolution in Jewish life
  • an overview / Richard I. Cohen
  • Displaying Judaica in 18th-century Central Europe: a non-Jewish curiosity / Michael Korey
  • Collecting community: the Berlin Jewish Museum as narrator between past and present, 1906-1939 / Tobias Metzler
  • Jewish museums in the Federal Republic of Germany / Inka Bertz
  • Post-trauma "precious legacies": Jewish museums in Eastern Europe after the Holocaust and before the fall of Communism / Ruth Ellen Gruber
  • From Wandering Jew to immigrant ethnic: musealizing Jewish immigration / Robin Ostow
  • Six exhibitions, six decades: toward the recanonization of contemporary Israeli art / Ruth Direktor
  • In between past and future: time and relatedness in the Six Decades Exhibitions / Osnat Zukerman Rechter
  • A matrix of matrilineal memory in the museum: Charlotte Salomon and Chantal Akerman in Berlin / Lisa Saltzman
  • Between two worlds: ghost stories under glass in Vienna and Chicago / Abigail Glogower and Margaret Olin
  • Thoughts on the role of a European Jewish museum in the 21st Century / Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek
  • Essay: "The forces of darkness": Leonard Woolf, Isaiah Berlin, and English Antisemitism / Elliott Horowitz
  • Review essays
  • It's not all religious fundamentalism / Chaim I. Waxman
  • One step before the abyss: recent scholarship on the Jews in occupied Soviet territories during the Second World War / Kiril Feferman
  • Book reviews.

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