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

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 i...

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Superior document:Balkan Studies Library; volume26
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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)
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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.