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

• Superior document: Balkan Studies Library; volume26
• VerfasserIn: Rajner, Mirjam, 1959-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Balkan Studies Library; volume26.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 446 pages) :; illustrations (some color)

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Note on Personal Names -- Introduction -- In Search of an Identity: Sephardic, Zionist, Yugoslav -- Introduction to Part 1 -- From Dorćol to Paris and Back: Moša Pijade’s Self-Portraits -- Sarajevo’s Multiculturalism: Daniel Kabiljo’s Sephardic Types -- A Croatian Zionist: Adolf Weiller between the East European Shtetl and the Lure of Nature -- From Avant-Garde to Political Activism -- Introduction to Part 2 -- Bora Baruh’s Refugees -- Ivan Rein’s Paris: From the Quartier Latin to Camp Vernet -- The Ethnic and Universal Avante-Garde: Daniel Ozmo’s Linocuts -- “We Artists Have to Paint”: Art Created during the War and the Holocaust -- Introduction to Part 3 -- Bora Baruh in Occupied Belgrade: Images of Jewish and Christian Mourning -- Art in Jasenovac: Daniel Ozmo and the Artists of the Ceramic Workshop -- Refugee and Artist: Ivan Rein, Johanna Lutzer, and Jewish Cultural Life in Kraljevica -- The Rab Island Camp: From Internment to Freedom -- Producing Art for Partisans: Creativity between Ideology and Survival -- Introduction to Part 4 -- Bora Baruh as a Partisan, 1941–1942 -- Johanna Lutzer: Jewish Refugees with the Partisans in Croatia -- Postscript: Jewish Artists as National Heroes, Victims of Fascism, and Holocaust Survivors -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.