The Jewish museum : history and memory, identity and art from Vienna to the Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem / by Natalia Berger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berger, Natalia, author.

Series:

Jewish identities in a changing world ; 29.

Jewish Identities in a Changing World ; 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien--History.

Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien.

Bet ha-nekhot ha-leʼumi Betsalʼel--History.

Bet ha-nekhot ha-leʼumi Betsalʼel.

Muzeʼon Yiśraʼel (Jerusalem)--History.

Muzeʼon Yiśraʼel (Jerusalem).

Jewish museums--History.

Jewish museums.

Jews--Identity--History.

Jews.

Collective memory.

Jews--Identity.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 584 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

In 'The Jewish Museum: History and Memory, Identity and Art from Vienna to the Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem' Natalia Berger traces the history of the Jewish museum in its various manifestations in Central Europe, notably in Vienna, Prague and Budapest, up to the establishment of the Bezalel National Museum in Jerusalem. Accordingly, the book scrutinizes collections and exhibitions and broadens our understanding of the different ways that Jewish individuals and communities sought to map their history, culture and art. It is the comparative method that sheds light on each of the museums, and on the processes that initiated the transition from collection and research to assembling a type of collection that would serve to inspire new art.

Contents:

Part 1 The Strauss Collection and the Anglo-Jewish Exhibition

1 Isaac Strauss and His Collection 41

2 The Historic Anglo-Jewish Exhibition in London, 1887 66

Part 2 The Jewish Museums of Austria-Hungary: Vienna, Prague, and Budapest

3 Introduction: The Jewish Museum in Vienna 95

4 The Determining Factors in the Establishment of the Museum 100

5 The Jewish Museum of Vienna, 1895-1906 128

6 The Exhibits 152

7 The Jewish Museum of Prague 195

8 The Jewish Museum of Budapest 254

Part 3 The Bezalel National Museum in Jerusalem

9 Historical Background 313

10 To Realize a Dream: Boris Schatz and the Bezalel Museum in the Formative Years, 1906-12 332

11 The Years 1909-14 379

12 Boris Schatz's Utopian Museum as Charted in His Book, Jerusalem Rebuilt 412

13 The Bezalel Museum in the Years following World War I, 1919-26 421

14 From The Bezalel National Museum to The Israel Museum: Mordechai Narkiss's Vision and Achievements: 1932-57 459.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-576) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Berger, Natalia, author. Jewish museum

ISBN:

9789004353879

9004353879

OCLC:

992463569

Publisher Number:

9789004353879