The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times / / ed. by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Jonathan Karp.

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• MitwirkendeR: Braiterman, Zachary,; Cahn, Walter,; Cohen, Richard I.,; Dellheim, Charles,; Helman, Anat,; Horowitz, Amy,; Kant, Marion,; Karp, Jonathan,; Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara,; Kligman, Mark,; Linden, Diana L.,; Litvak, Olga,; Netsky, Hankus,; Shternshis, Anna,; Suleiman, Susan Rubin,; Thissen, Judith,; Warnke, Nina,; Zemel, Carol,
• HerausgeberIn: Karp, Jonathan,; Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.) :; 59 illus.

The wide-ranging portrayal of modern Jewishness in artistic terms invites scrutiny into the relationship between creativity and the formation of Jewish identity and into the complex issue of what makes a work of art uniquely Jewish. Whether it is the provenance of the artist, as in the case of popul...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction
• I. Culture, Commerce, and Class
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Theater as Educational Institution: Jewish Immigrant Intellectuals and Yiddish Theater Reform
• Chapter 2. Film and Vaudeville on New York's Lower East Side
• Chapter 3. Of Maestros and Minstrels: American Jewish Composers between Black Vernacular and European Art Music
• II. Siting the Jewish Tomorrow
• Introduction
• Chapter 4. May Day, Tractors, and Piglets: Yiddish Songs for Little Communists
• Chapter 5. Performing the State: The Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, 1939/40
• Chapter 6. Was There Anything Particularly Jewish about ''The First Hebrew City''?
• Chapter 7. Re-Routing Roots: Zehava Ben's Journey between Shuk and Suk
• III. Lost in Place
• Introduction
• Chapter 8. The ''Wandering Jew'' from Medieval Legend to Modern Metaphor
• Chapter 9. Diasporic Values in Contemporary Art: Kitaj, Katchor, Frenkel
• IV. Portraits of the Artist as Jew
• Introduction
• Chapter 10. Modern? American? Jew? Museums and Exhibitions of Ben Shahn's Late Paintings
• Chapter 11. Max Liebermann and the Amsterdam Jewish Quarter
• Chapter 12. Rome and Jerusalem: The Figure of Jesus in the Creation of Mark Antokol'skii
• V. In Search of a Usable Aesthetic
• Introduction
• Chapter 13. A Modern Mitzvah-Space-Aesthetic: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig
• Chapter 14. Reestablishing a ''Jewish Spirit'' in American Synagogue Music: The Music of A. W. Binder
• Chapter 15. The Evolution of Philadelphia's Russian Sher Medley
• VI. Hotel Terminus
• Introduction
• Chapter 16. Framing Nazi Art Loot
• Chapter 17. Joseph Lewitan and the Nazification of Dance in Germany
• Chapter 18. History, Memory, and Moral Judgment in Documentary Film: On Marcel Ophuls's Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
• Notes
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgments