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The visual culture of Chabad

Title

The visual culture of Chabad / Maya Balakirsky Katz.

Author

Katz, Maya Balakirsky, 1973-

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Description

xv, 244 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"This book presents the first full-length study of a vast and complex visual tradition produced, revered, preserved, banned, and destroyed by the Hasidic movement of Chabad. This rich repository of visual artifacts provides the archaeological data for an analysis of how the movement consolidated its influence during a period of political and economic transformation and survived its immigration to America in the wake of the Holocaust. As one of the most self-documented and media-preserved modern Jewish movements, Chabad's rich material culture, including the hand-held portrait, the "rebbishe" space, the printer's mark, and the public menorah, afford scholars a wider range of interpretive strategies for understanding the movement and the role of the visual experience in religion"--

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Hasidic master portraits: new contexts for conventional portraits -- The Rebbe-heir portrait -- R. Yosef Yitzchak and the Rebbishe photograph -- The present Rebbe: marketing the Messiah -- The geography of the Chabad world map -- The court in America: branding buildings and building brand -- Counter-Zionism: the battle of the Jewish arts -- Trademarks of faith: Chabad and Chanukah in America -- Postscript: inside/outside Chabad visual culture.

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