Research Catalog

Title

Fragile images : Jews and art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945 / by Mirjam Rajner.

Author

Rajner, Mirjam, 1959-

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

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Details

Description

xxvi, 446 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.

Summary

"In Fragile Images: Jews and Art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945, Mirjam Rajner traces the lives and creativity of seven artists of Jewish origin. The artists - Moša Pijade, Daniel Kabiljo, Adolf Weiller, Bora Baruh, Daniel Ozmo, Ivan Rein and Johanna Lutzer - were characterized by multiple and changeable identities: nationalist and universalist, Zionist and Sephardic, communist and cosmopolitan. These fluctuating identities found expression in their art, as did their wartime fate as refugees, camp inmates, partisans and survivors. A wealth of newly-discovered images, diaries and letters highlight this little-known aspect of Jewish life and art in Yugoslavia, illuminating a turbulent era that included integration into a newly-founded country, the catastrophe of the Holocaust, and renewal in its aftermath"--

Series Statement

Balkan studies library, 1877-6272 ; volume 26

Uniform Title

Balkan studies library ; v. 26.

Subjects

• Jewish artists
• Biographies
• Yugoslavia
• Art, Yugoslav > Themes, motives
• Art and society > Yugoslavia
• Jewish artists > Yugoslavia > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

In search of an identity : Sephardic, Zionist, Yugoslav -- From avant-garde to political activism -- "We artists have to paint : art created during the war and the Holocaust -- Producing art for partisans : creativity between ideology and survival.

ISBN

• 9789004408852
• 9004408851
• 9789004408906 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019034654

OCLC

• on1104066930
• 1104066930
• SCSB-9604325

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library