Research Catalog

Title

Visualizing and exhibiting Jewish space and history / edited by Richard I. Cohen.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Published for the Institute by Oxford University Press, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Cohen, Richard I.
• Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu ʻa. sh. Avraham Harman.

Description

xii, 361 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in contemporary Jewry, an annual, 0740-8625 ; 26, 2012

Uniform Title

Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 26.

Subjects

• Jewish museums
• Jewish museums > Europe > History
• Jewish artists > Exhibitions
• Jewish art
• Museums > Collection management

Note

• "The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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

Call Number

*PXK 86-1520 v. 26

ISBN

• 9780199934249 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 019993424X (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2012022530

OCLC

795687188

Title

Visualizing and exhibiting Jewish space and history / edited by Richard I. Cohen.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Published for the Institute by Oxford University Press, c2012.

Series

Studies in contemporary Jewry, an annual, 0740-8625 ; 26, 2012

Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 26.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Cohen, Richard I.

Makhon le-Yahadut zemanenu ʻa. sh. Avraham Harman.

Research Call Number

*PXK 86-1520 v. 26