Visualizing and exhibiting Jewish space and history /
[Book]
edited by Richard I. Cohen
New York :
Published for the Institute by Oxford University Press,
c2012
xii, 361 p. :
ill. ;
25 cm
Studies in contemporary Jewry, an annual,
26, 2012
0740-8625 ;
"The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."
Includes bibliographical references and index
The visual revolution in Jewish life - an overview / Richard I. Cohen -- Displaying Judaica in 18th-century Central Europe: a non-Jewish curiosity / Michael Korey -- Collecting community: the Berlin Jewish Museum as narrator between past and present, 1906-1939 / Tobias Metzler -- Jewish museums in the Federal Republic of Germany / Inka Bertz -- Post-trauma "precious legacies": Jewish museums in Eastern Europe after the Holocaust and before the fall of Communism / Ruth Ellen Gruber -- From Wandering Jew to immigrant ethnic: musealizing Jewish immigration / Robin Ostow -- Six exhibitions, six decades: toward the recanonization of contemporary Israeli art / Ruth Direktor -- In between past and future: time and relatedness in the Six Decades Exhibitions / Osnat Zukerman Rechter -- A matrix of matrilineal memory in the museum: Charlotte Salomon and Chantal Akerman in Berlin / Lisa Saltzman -- Between two worlds: ghost stories under glass in Vienna and Chicago / Abigail Glogower and Margaret Olin -- Thoughts on the role of a European Jewish museum in the 21st Century / Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek -- Essay: "The forces of darkness": Leonard Woolf, Isaiah Berlin, and English Antisemitism / Elliott Horowitz -- Review essays -- It's not all religious fundamentalism / Chaim I. Waxman -- One step before the abyss: recent scholarship on the Jews in occupied Soviet territories during the Second World War / Kiril Feferman -- Book reviews