| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 449 pages) : illustrations, map, music |
| Series |
Jewish culture and contexts |
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Jewish culture and contexts.
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| Contents |
Theater as educational institution : Jewish immigrant intellectuals and Yiddish theater reform / Nina Warnke -- Film and vaudeville on New York's Lower East Side / Judith Thissen -- Of maestros and minstrels : American Jewish composers between Black vernacular and European art music / Jonathan Karp -- May Day, tractors, and piglets : Yiddish songs for little communists / Anna Shternshis -- Performing the state : the Jewish Palestine pavilion at the New York World's Fair, 1939/40 / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Was there anything particularly Jewish about "the first Hebrew city"? / Anat Helman -- Re-routing roots : Zehava Ben's journey between shuk and suk / Amy Horowitz -- The "wandering Jew" from medieval legend to modern metaphor / Richard I. Cohen -- Diasporic values in contemporary art : Kitaj, Katchor, Frenkel / Carol Zemel -- Modern? American? Jew? museums and exhibitions of Ben Shahn's late paintings / Diana L. Linden -- Max Liebermann and the Amsterdam Jewish quarter / Walter Cahn -- Rome and Jerusalem : the figure of Jesus in the creation of Mark Antokol'skii / Olga Litvak -- A modern mitzvah-space-aesthecic : the philosophy of Franz Rosenzwieg / Zachary Braiterman -- Reestablising a "Jewish spirit" in American synagogue music : the music of A.W. Binder / Mark Kligman -- The evolution of Philadelphia's Russian sher medley / Hankus Netsky -- Framing Nazi art loot / Charles Dellheim -- Joseph Lewitan and the Nazification of dance in Germany / Marion Kant -- History, memory, and moral judgment in documentary film : on Marcel Ophul's Hotel terminus: the life and times of Klaus Barbie / Susan Rubin Suleiman |
| Summary |
This richly illustrated volume illuminates how the arts have helped Jews confront the challenges of modernity. There truly is an art to being Jewish in the modern world--or, alternatively, an art to being modern in the Jewish world--and this collection fully captures its range, diversity, and historical significance |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-443) |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Jewish arts -- 20th century
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Jews -- Identity -- 20th century
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
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Jewish arts
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Jews -- Identity
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara
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Karp, Jonathan, 1960-
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| LC no. |
2008295553 |
| ISBN |
9780812208863 |
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0812208862 |
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9780812240023 |
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0812240022 |
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0812220471 |
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9780812220476 |
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