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The art of being Jewish in modern times

Title
The art of being Jewish in modern times / edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jonathan Karp.
Publication
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.

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TextUse in library *PVP 07-2117Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111

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Additional Authors
  • Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara.
  • Karp, Jonathan, 1960-
Description
xii, 449 p. : ill., map, music; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Jewish culture and contexts
Subject
  • Jewish arts > 20th century
  • Jews > Identity > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-443).
Contents
Theater as educational institution : Jewish immigrant intellectuals and Yiddish theater reform / Nina Warnke -- Film and vaudeville on New York's Lower East Side / Judith Thissen -- Of maestros and minstrels : American Jewish composers between Black vernacular and European art music / Jonathan Karp -- May Day, tractors, and piglets : Yiddish songs for little communists / Anna Shternshis -- Performing the state : the Jewish Palestine pavilion at the New York World's Fair, 1939/40 / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Was there anything particularly Jewish about "the first Hebrew city"? / Anat Helman -- Re-routing roots : Zehava Ben's journey between shuk and suk / Amy Horowitz -- The "wandering Jew" from medieval legend to modern metaphor / Richard I. Cohen -- Diasporic values in contemporary art : Kitaj, Katchor, Frenkel / Carol Zemel -- Modern? American? Jew? museums and exhibitions of Ben Shahn's late paintings / Diana L. Linden -- Max Liebermann and the Amsterdam Jewish quarter / Walter Cahn -- Rome and Jerusalem : the figure of Jesus in the creation of Mark Antokol'skii / Olga Litvak -- A modern mitzvah-space-aesthecic : the philosophy of Franz Rosenzwieg / Zachary Braiterman -- Reestablising a "Jewish spirit" in American synagogue music : the music of A.W. Binder / Mark Kligman -- The evolution of Philadelphia's Russian sher medley / Hankus Netsky -- Framing Nazi art loot / Charles Dellheim -- Joseph Lewitan and the Nazification of dance in Germany / Marion Kant -- History, memory, and moral judgment in documentary film : on Marcel Ophul's Hotel terminus: the life and times of Klaus Barbie / Susan Rubin Suleiman.
Call Number
*PVP 07-2117
ISBN
  • 9780812240023
  • 0812240022
OCLC
154800565
Title
The art of being Jewish in modern times / edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jonathan Karp.
Imprint
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.
Series
Jewish culture and contexts
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-443).
Added Author
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara.
Karp, Jonathan, 1960-
Research Call Number
*PVP 07-2117
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