From court Jews to the Rothschilds : art, patronage, and power : 1600-1800 / edited by Vivian B. Mann and Richard I. Cohen ; with essays by Fritz Backhaus ... [and others]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mann, Vivian B.

Cohen, Richard I.

Backhaus, Fritz

Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)

Gershwind/Bennett Endowed Fund for Judaica Collections.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rothschild family.

Court Jews--Exhibitions.

Art patronage--Europe--Exhibitions.

Rothschild family--Exhibitions.

Jews--Europe--Biography.

Jews.

Art and state.

Exhibitions.

Art patronage.

Court Jews.

Europe.

Art and state--Europe--Exhibitions.

Genre:

Biographies.

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

251 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Munich ; New York : Prestel-Verlag, [1996]

Contents:

Court Jews before the Hofjuden / Yosef Kaplan

Court Jews in economics and politics / Michael Graetz

Riches and Dangers : Glickl bas Judah Leib on court Jews / Natalie Zemon Davis

The Case of Alexander David of Braunschweig / Ralf Busch

The Despised Queen of Berlin Jewry, or the life and times of Esther Liebmann / Deborah Hertz

The Last of the court Jews : Mayer Amschel Rothschild and his sons / Fritz Backhaus

Melding worlds : court Jews and the arts of the baroque / Richard I. Cohen and Vivian B. Mann.

Notes:

"This book has been published in conjunction with the exhibition From Court Jews to the Rothschilds: Art, Patronage, and Power, 1600-1800, held at the Jewish Museum, New York, 8 September 1996-17 January 1997"-- T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-249) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Gershwind/Bennett Endowed Fund for Judaica Collections.

Presented to the Penn Libraries from the collection of Grace Cohen Grossman.

ISBN:

3791316249

OCLC:

35783638