Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History
Richard I. Cohen
Oct 2012 · Studies in Contemporary Jewry Book 26 · Oxford University Press
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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 into the nature and proliferation of Jewish museums following the Holocaust and the fall of Communism in Western and Eastern Europe. In addition, a pair of essays dedicated to six exhibitions that took place in Israel in 2008 to mark six decades of Israeli art raises significant issues on the relationship between art and gender, and art and politics. An introductory essay highlights the dramatic transformation in the appreciation of the visual in Jewish culture. The scope of the symposium offers one of the first scholarly attempts to treat this theme in several countries. Also featured in this volume are a provocative essay on the nature of antisemitism in twentieth-century English society; review essays on Jewish fundamentalism and recent works on the subject of the Holocaust in occupied Soviet territories; and reviews of new titles in Jewish Studies..
About the author
Richard I. Cohen is Paulette and Claude Kelman Chair in French Jewry Studies and head of the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His works include The Burden of Conscience: French-Jewish Leadership during the Holocaust, Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe, and From Court Jews to the Rothschilds: Art, Patronage, and Power, 1600-1800. The current editors of Studies in Contemporary Jewry are Richard I. Cohen, Anat Helman, Eli Lederhendler, and Uzi Rebhun, all of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
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