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Title Art and its uses : the visual image and modern Jewish society / edited by Ezra Mendelsohn ; guest symposium editor, Richard I. Cohen
Published New York : Published for the Institute by Oxford University Press, ©1990

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 418 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in contemporary Jewry, 0740-8625 ; 6
Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 6.
Contents Symposium: Art and Its Uses: The Visual Image and Modern Jewish Society; Essays; Review Essays; Book Reviews (arranged by subject); Communal History; Demography, Economics and Sociology; Language, Art and Literature; Religion, Thought and Education; Zionism and Israel; Recently Completed Doctoral Dissertations; Contents for Volume VII
Summary The sixth volume of the annual publication of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Art and Its Uses analyzes the levels of meaning present in a wide range of visual images, from high art by Jewish artists to Judaica, caricatures, and political propaganda. The use of such material to illuminate aspects of modern history and society is rather uncommon in the field of modern Jewish studies; these essays provide the tools necessary for understanding the image in its proper social and political context. The distinguished contributors include Richard I. Cohen
Notes "Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Jewish art.
Jews in art.
Jews -- History -- Pictorial works.
Jews -- Social life and customs.
HISTORY -- Jewish.
Jews in art
Jewish art
Jews
Jews -- Social life and customs
Genre/Form History
Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
Author Mendelsohn, Ezra.
Cohen, Richard I.
Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim. Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu
ISBN 9780195362862
0195362861