Visualizing and exhibiting Jewish space and history
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Visualizing and exhibiting Jewish space and history
(Studies in contemporary Jewry, 26)
Published for the Institute by Oxford University Press, c2012
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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At head of title: The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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..
Table of Contents
- Symposium: Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History
- 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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