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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465371903321

Titolo

Visualizing and exhibiting Jewish space and history [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Richard I. Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c2012

ISBN

0-19-025470-X

0-19-993425-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (374 p.)

Collana

Studies in contemporary Jewry, an annual, , 0740-8625 ; ; 26

Altri autori (Persone)

CohenRichard I

Disciplina

704.03/9240075

Soggetti

Jewish art

Jewish artists

Jewish museums - Europe - History

Jewish museums

Museums - Collection management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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 ArtIn 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 WarBook 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

Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the AestheticA 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

Sommario/riassunto

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 onwards, with special attention given to the evolution of Jewish museums. Bringing together leading curators and scholars, Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History treats various forms of Jewish representation in museums in Europe and the United States before the Second World War and inquires