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The art of being Jewish in modern times /
This richly illustrated volume illuminates how the arts have helped Jews confront the challenges of modernity. There truly is an art to being Jewish in the modern world--or, alternatively, an art to being modern in the Jewish world--and this collection fully captures its range, diversity, and histor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Jewish culture and contexts.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Theater as educational institution : Jewish immigrant intellectuals and Yiddish theater reform / Nina Warnke
- Film and vaudeville on New York's Lower East Side / Judith Thissen
- Of maestros and minstrels : American Jewish composers between Black vernacular and European art music / Jonathan Karp
- May Day, tractors, and piglets : Yiddish songs for little communists / Anna Shternshis
- Performing the state : the Jewish Palestine pavilion at the New York World's Fair, 1939/40 / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
- Was there anything particularly Jewish about "the first Hebrew city"? / Anat Helman
- Re-routing roots : Zehava Ben's journey between shuk and suk / Amy Horowitz
- The "wandering Jew" from medieval legend to modern metaphor / Richard I. Cohen
- Diasporic values in contemporary art : Kitaj, Katchor, Frenkel / Carol Zemel
- Modern? American? Jew? museums and exhibitions of Ben Shahn's late paintings / Diana L. Linden
- Max Liebermann and the Amsterdam Jewish quarter / Walter Cahn
- Rome and Jerusalem : the figure of Jesus in the creation of Mark Antokol'skii / Olga Litvak
- A modern mitzvah-space-aesthecic : the philosophy of Franz Rosenzwieg / Zachary Braiterman
- Reestablising a "Jewish spirit" in American synagogue music : the music of A.W. Binder / Mark Kligman
- The evolution of Philadelphia's Russian sher medley / Hankus Netsky
- Framing Nazi art loot / Charles Dellheim
- Joseph Lewitan and the Nazification of dance in Germany / Marion Kant
- History, memory, and moral judgment in documentary film : on Marcel Ophul's Hotel terminus: the life and times of Klaus Barbie / Susan Rubin Suleiman.