Visualizing and exhibiting Jewish space and history /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Richard I. Cohen
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Published for the Institute by Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2012
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 361 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
Dimensions
25 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Studies in contemporary Jewry, an annual,
Volume Designation
26, 2012
ISSN of Series
0740-8625 ;
GENERAL NOTES
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"The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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