The art of being Jewish in modern times / edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jonathan Karp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara.

Karp, Jonathan, 1960-

Series:

Jewish culture and contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish arts--20th century.

Jewish arts.

Jews--Identity--20th century.

Jews.

Jews--Identity.

Physical Description:

xii, 449 pages : illustrations, map, music ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]

Summary:

This book takes a broad conception of what counts as art, exploring the American or German or Russian art world, a culture industry such as the American or Israeli popular music business, or the everyday life of a local community in Philadelphia, Tel Aviv, or Birobidzhan.... The book as a whole has the ambitious aim of identifying the aesthetic as a key conceptual category for treating modern Jewish history. This volume, then, is not simply about modern Jewry and the arts but about the art of being Jewish in modern times.

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-Aesthetic: 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-443).

ISBN:

0812240022

9780812240023

OCLC:

154800565