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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- Brand
- University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications
- Style
- ABIS_BOOK
- Genre
- RELIGION
- Book Title
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780812240023
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812240022
ISBN-13
9780812240023
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60635624
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Publication Name
Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Subject
Judaism / General, Sociology of Religion, History / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Religion, Social Science
Series
Jewish Culture and Contexts Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
0 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2008-295553
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
704.03/924
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Preface --David Ruderman Introduction --Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jonathan Karp I. CULTURE, COMMERCE, AND CLASS 1. Theater as Educational Institution: Jewish Immigrant Intellectuals and Yiddish Theater Reform --Nina Warnke 2. Film and Vaudeville on New York's Lower East Side --Judith Thissen 3. Of Maestros and Minstrels: American Jewish Composers between Black Vernacular and European Art Music --Jonathan Karp II. SITING THE JEWISH TOMORROW 4. May Day, Tractors, and Piglets: Yiddish Songs for Little Communists --Anna Shternshis 5. Performing the State: The Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, 1939/40 --Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 6. Was There Anything Particularly Jewish about "The First Hebrew City"? --Anat Helman 7. Re-Routing Roots: Zehava Ben's Journey between Shuk and Suk --Amy Horowitz III. LOST IN PLACE 8. The "Wandering Jew" from Medieval Legend to Modern Metaphor --Richard I. Cohen 9. Diasporic Values in Contemporary Art: Kitaj, Katchor, Frenkel --Carol Zemel IV. PORTRAITS OF THE ARTIST AS JEW 10. Modern? American? Jew? Museums and Exhibitions of Ben Shahn's Late Paintings --Diana L. Linden 11. Max Liebermann and the Amsterdam Jewish Quarter --Walter Cahn 12. Rome and Jerusalem: The Figure of Jesus in the Creation of Mark Antokol'skii --Olga Litvak V. IN SEARCH OF A USABLE AESTHETIC 13. A Modern Mitzvah-Space-Aesthetic: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig --Zachary Braiterman 14. Reestablishing a "Jewish Spirit" in American Synagogue Music: The Music of A. W. Binder --Mark Kligman 15. The Evolution of Philadelphia's Russian Sher Medley --Hankus Netsky VI. HOTEL TERMINUS 16. Framing Nazi Art Loot --Charles Dellheim 17. Joseph Lewitan and the Nazification of Dance in Germany --Marion Kant 18. History, Memory, and Moral Judgment in Documentary Film: On Marcel Ophuls's Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie --Susan Rubin Suleiman Notes Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments
Synopsis
The wide-ranging portrayal of modern Jewishness in artistic terms invites scrutiny into the relationship between creativity and the formation of Jewish identity and into the complex issue of what makes a work of art uniquely Jewish. Whether it is the provenance of the artist, as in the case of popular Israeli singer Zehava Ben, the intention of the iconography, as in Ben Shahn's antifascist paintings, or the utopian ideals of the Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, clearly no single formula for defining Jewish art in the diaspora will suffice. The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times is the first work to analyze modern Jewry's engagement with the arts as a whole, including music, theater, dance, film, museums, architecture, painting, sculpture, and more. Working with a broad conception of what counts as art, the book asks the following questions: What roles have commerce and politics played in shaping Jewish artistic agendas? Who determines the Jewishness of art and for what purposes? What role has aesthetics played in reshaping religious traditions and rituals? This richly illustrated volume illuminates how the arts have helped Jews confront the various challenges of modernity, including cultural adaptation and self-preservation, economic diversification, and ritual transformation. There truly is an art to being Jewish in the modern world--or, alternatively, an art to being modern in the Jewish world--and this collection fully captures its range, diversity, and historical significance., This richly illustrated volume illuminates how the arts have helped Jews confront the challenges of modernity. There truly is an art to being Jewish in the modern world--or, alternatively, an art to being modern in the Jewish world--and this collection fully captures its range, diversity, and historical significance.
LC Classification Number
NX684.A4A78 2008
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