Visualizing and exhibiting Jewish space and history / edited by Richard I. Cohen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Richard I.

Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu ʻa. sh. Avraham Harman.

Series:

Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 25.

Studies in contemporary Jewry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish art.

Jewish artists--Exhibitions.

Jewish artists.

Jewish museums--Europe--History.

Jewish museums.

Museums--Collection management.

Museums.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

xii, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Published for the Institute by Oxford University Press, 2012.

Contents:

Symposium

Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History

Richard I. Cohen, The Visual Revolution in Jewish Life-An Overview 3

Michael Korey, Displaying Judaica in 18th-Century Central Europe: A Non-Jewish Curiosity 25

Tobias Metzler, Collecting Community: The Berlin Jewish Museum as Narrator between Past and Present, 1906-1939 55

Inka Bertz, Jewish Museums in the Federal Republic of Germany 80

Ruth Ellen Gruber, Post-trauma "Precious Legacies": Jewish Museums in Eastern Europe after the Holocaust and before the Fall of Communism 113

Robin Ostow, From Wandering Jew to Immigrant Ethnic: Musealizing Jewish Immigration 133

Ruth Direktor, Six Exhibitions, Six Decades: Toward the Recanonization of Contemporary Israeli Art 159

Osnat Zukerman Rechter, In Between Past and Future: Time and Relatedness in the Six Decades Exhibitions 180

Lisa Saltzman, A Matrix of Matrilineal Memory in the Museum: Charlotte Salomon and Chantal Akerman in Berlin 204

Abigail Glogower and Margaret Olin, Between Two Worlds: Ghost Stories under Glass in Vienna and Chicago 217

Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Thoughts on the Role of a European Jewish Museum in the 21st Century 243

Essay

Elliott Horowitz, "The Forces of Darkness": Leonard Woolf, Isaiah Berlin, and English Antisemitism 261

Review Essays

Chaim I. Waxman, It's Not All Religious Fundamentalism 281

Kiril Feferman, One Step before the Abyss: Recent Scholarship on the Jews in Occupied Soviet Territories during the Second World War 288

Book Reviews (arranged by subject)

Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide

Andrej Angrick and Peter Klein, The Final Solution in Riga: Exploitation and Annihilation, 1941-1944, Kirtl Feferman 288

Yitzhak Arad, The Holocaust in the Soviet Union (trans. Ora Cummings) / Kiril Feferman Feferman, Kiril 288

Suzanne Bardgett, David Cesarani, Jessica Reinisch, and Johannes-Dieter Steinert (eds.), Survivors of Nazi Persecution in Europe after the Second World War. Landscapes after Battle / Laura Jockusch Jockusch, Laura 297

Ray Brandon and Wendy Lower (eds.), The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization / Kiril Feferman Feferman, Kiril 288

Barbara Epstein, The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism / Kiril Feferman Feferman, Kiril 288

Israel Gutman, Sugiyot beheker hashoah: bikoret uterumah (Issues in Holocaust scholarship: research and reassessment) / Samuel Kassow Kassow, Samuel 301

Andrei Oisteanu, Inventing the Jew: Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central-East European Cultures (trans. Mirela Adascalitei) / Raphael Vago Vago, Raphael 304

Anton Weiss-Wendt, Murder without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust / Kiril Feferman Feferman, Kiril 288

Cultural Studies and Education

Walter Ackerman, "Jewish Education-For What?" and Other Essays (ed. Ari Ackerman, Hanan Alexander, Brenda Bacon, and David Golinkin) / Michael Gillis Gillis, Michael 307

Simon J. Bronner (ed.), Jews at Home: The Domestication of Identity / Anna Lipphardt Lipphardt, Anna 309

Warren Hoffman, The Passing Game: Queering Jewish American Culture / Emily Budick Budick, Emily 312

Amy Horowitz, Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic / Assaf Shelleg Shelleg, Assaf 313

Miryam Segal, A New Sound in Hebrew Poetry: Poetics, Politics, Accent / Yael Reshef Reshef, Yael 318

Mirjam Triendl-Zadoff, Nächstes Jahr in Marienbad: Gegenwelten jüdischer Kulturen der Moderne / Martin J. Wein Wein, Martin J. 321

History and the Social Sciences

Ben Zion Dinur, Ketavim yeshanim vegam hadashim (Posthumous and other writings; ed. Arielle Rein) / Yitzhak Conforti Conforti, Yitzhak 324

Haya Gavish, Unwitting Zionists: The Jewish Community of Zakho in Iraqi Kurdistan / Esther Meir-Glitzenstein Meir-Glitzenstein, Esther 326

Esther Hertzog, Orit Abuhav, Harvey E. Goldberg, and Emanuel Marx (eds.), Perspectives on Israeli Anthropology / Jack Kugelmass Kugelmass, Jack 329

Jack Jacobs, Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland / Daniel Blatman Blatman, Daniel 332

Carole S. Kessner, Marie Syrkin: Values beyond the Self / Gerald Sorin Sorin, Gerald 336

Eli Lederhendler, Jewish Immigrants and American Capitalism, 1880-1920: From Caste to Class / Beth S. Wenger Wenger, Beth S. 338

Natan M. Meir, Kiev, Jewish Metropolis: A History 1859-1914 / Ezra Mendelsohn Mendelsohn, Ezra 340

Kenneth B. Moss, Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution / Mikhail Krutikov Krutikov, Mikhail 343

Dina Porat, The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner (trans, and ed. Elizabeth Yuval) / Samuel Kassow Kassow, Samuel 345

Daniel Tsadik, Between Foreigners and Shi'is: Nineteenth-Century Iran and Its Jewish Minority / Norman A. Stellman Stellman, Norman A. 349

David Yeroushalmi, The Jews of Iran in the Nineteenth Century: Aspects of History, Community, and Culture / Norman A. Stillman Stillman, Norman A. 349

Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East

Sami Shalom Chetrit, Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel: White Jews, Black Jews (trans. Oz Shelach) / Henrette Dahan Kalev Kalev, Henrette Dahan 352

Michael Feige, Settling in the Hearts: Jewish Fundamentalism in the Occupied Territories / Chaim I. Waxman Waxman, Chaim I. 281

Motti Inbari, Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount: Who Will Build the Third Temple? / Cham I. Waxman Waxman, Cham I. 281

David Ohana, Political Theologies in the Holy Land: Israeli Messianism and Its Critics / Motti Inbari Inbari, Motti 353

Todd Samuel Presner, Muscular Judaism: The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration / Haim Kaufman Kaufman, Haim 355.

Notes:

"The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199934249

019993424X

OCLC:

795687188