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The art of being Jewish in modern times / edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jonathan Karp

Published
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]
Copyright Date
©2008
Physical Description
xii, 449 pages : illustrations, map, music ; 25 cm.
Additional Creators
Karp, Jonathan, 1960- and Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara

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Contents
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.
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ISBN
9780812240023
0812240022
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [381]-443).
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