Art And Its Uses: The Visual Image and Modern Jewish Society; Studies in Contemporary Jewry: An Annual VI 1990
New York: Published for the Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem by Oxford University Press, 1990. Hardbound. Octavo in dust jacket, xiv, 418 pp., recently completed dissertations. Very Good. Item #12773
ISBN: 0195061888
Guest Symposium Editor: Richard I. Cohen. Articles are "An Introductory Essay - Viewing the Past," Richard I. Cohen, "Art in Zionist Popular Culture and Jewish National Self-Consciousness, 1897-1914," Michael Berkowitz, "The Uses of Primitivism: Reuben Rubin in Palestine," Milly Heyd, "The Visual Dreyfus Affiar - A New Text? On the Dreyfus Affair Exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York," Richard I. Cohen, "Max Liebermann and the Painting of the Public Sphere," Irit Rogoff, "The Artist as Refugee," Ziva Amishai-Maisels, "'Home Is Whrer the Heart Is': Jewish Themes in the Art of R.B. Kitaj," Viviane Barsky, "Yiddish Adaptations of Children's Stories from World Literature," Chone Shmeruk, "Forging Judaica: The Case of the Italian Majolica Seder Plates," Vivian B. Mann, "Thomas Mann's Attitudes Toward Jews and Judiasm: An Investigation of Biography and Oeuvre," Alfred Holezel, "The Distinctive Path of German Zionism," Hagit Lavsky, "Ritual, Ceremony and the Reconstruction of Judaism in the United States," Charles S. Liebman, "Heroine or Traitor? The Controversy over Manya Vilbushevich-Shohat and Her Links with Zubatov," Yaakov, Goldstein, review essays, book reviews (arranged by subject).
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