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

This volume examines the visual revolution that has overtaken Jewish cultural life from the 20th century onwards, with special attention given to the evolution of Jewish museums. The book treats various forms of Jewish representation in museums in Europe and the United States before the Second World...

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Corporate Author: Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu ʻa. sh. Avraham Harman
Other Authors: Cohen, Richard I. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Series:Studies in contemporary Jewry ; XXVI.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Symposium
  • Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History
  • The Visual Revolution in Jewish Life-An Overview
  • Displaying Judaica in 18th-Century Central Europe: A Non-Jewish Curiosity
  • Collecting Community: The Berlin Jewish Museum as Narrator between Past and Present, 1906-1939
  • Jewish Museums in the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Post-trauma "Precious Legacies": Jewish Museums in Eastern Europe after the Holocaust and before the Fall of Communism
  • From Wandering Jew to Immigrant Ethnic: Musealizing Jewish Immigration
  • Six Exhibitions, Six Decades: Toward the Recanonization of Contemporary Israeli Art
  • In Between Past and Future: Time and Relatedness in the Six Decades Exhibitions
  • A Matrix of Matrilineal Memory in the Museum: Charlotte Salomon and Chantal Akerman in Berlin
  • Between Two Worlds: Ghost Stories under Glass in Vienna and Chicago
  • Thoughts on the Role of a European Jewish Museum in the 21st Century
  • Essay
  • "The Forces of Darkness": Leonard Woolf, Isaiah Berlin, and English Antisemitism
  • Review Essays
  • It's Not All Religious Fundamentalism
  • One Step before the Abyss: Recent Scholarship on the Jews in Occupied Soviet Territories during the Second World War
  • Book Reviews (arranged by subject)
  • Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide
  • The Final Solution in Riga: Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941-1944
  • The Holocaust in the Soviet Union (trans. Ora Cummings)
  • David Cesarani, Jessica Reinisch, and Johannes-Dieter Steinert (eds.), Survivors of Nazi Persecution in Europe after the Second World War: Landscapes after Battle
  • The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization
  • The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism
  • Sugiyot beheker hashoah: bikoret uterumah (Issues in Holocaust scholarship: research and reassessment).
  • Inventing the Jew: Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central-East European Cultures (trans. Mirela Adăscăliţei)
  • Murder without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust
  • Cultural Studies and Education
  • "Jewish Education-For What?" and Other Essays (ed. Ari Ackerman, Hanan Alexander, Brenda Bacon, and David Golinkin)
  • Jews at Home: The Domestication of Identity
  • The Passing Game: Queering Jewish American Culture
  • Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic
  • A New Sound in Hebrew Poetry: Poetics, Politics, Accent
  • Nächstes Jahr in Marienbad: Gegenwelten jüdischer Kulturen der Moderne
  • History and the Social Sciences
  • Ketavim yeshanim vegam hadashim (Posthumous and other writings
  • ed. Arielle Rein)
  • Unwitting Zionists: The Jewish Community of Zakho in Iraqi Kurdistan
  • Orit Abuhav, Harvey E. Goldberg, and Emanuel Marx (eds.), Perspectives on Israeli Anthropology
  • Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland
  • Marie Syrkin: Values beyond the Self
  • Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920: From Caste to Class
  • Jewish Metropolis: A History 1859-1914
  • Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution
  • The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner (trans. and ed. Elizabeth Yuval)
  • Between Foreigners and Shi'is: Nineteenth-Century Iran and Its Jewish Minority
  • The Jews of Iran in the Nineteenth Century: Aspects of History, Community, and Culture
  • Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East
  • Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel: White Jews, Black Jews (trans. Oz Shelach)
  • Settling in the Hearts: Jewish Fundamentalism in the Occupied Territories
  • Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount: Who Will Build the Third Temple?
  • Political Theologies in the Holy Land: Israeli Messianism and Its Critics
  • Muscular Judaism: The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration.
  • Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXVII
  • Note on Editorial Policy.