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With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. In these images and objects that reflect, refract, and also shape daily experience, he finds new and illuminating insights into Jewish life in the modern period.
Pointing to recent scholarship that overturns the stereotype of Jews as people of the text, unconcerned with the visual, Cohen shows how the coming of the modern period expanded the relationship of Jews to the visual realm far beyond the religious context. In one such manifestation, orthodox Jewry made icons of popular tabbis, creating images that helped to bridge the sacred and the secular.
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the study and collecting of Jewish art became a legitimate and even passionate pursuit, and signaled the entry of Jews into the art world as painters, collectors, and dealers. Cohen's exploration of early Jewish exhibitions, museums, and museology opens a new window on the relationship of art to Jewish culture and society.
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Jews, Art and society, Jews in art, Intellectual life, Identity, Jewish art and symbolism, Jews, identity, Jews, intellectual life, Juifs dans l'art, Juifs, Identité, Vie intellectuelle, Symbolisme juif, Art et société, ART, History, General, Jodendom, Beeldende kunsten, Symbolen, Visualisatie, Visual Arts - General, Visual Arts, Art, Architecture & Applied ArtsEdition | Availability |
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Jewish icons: art and society in modern Europe
1998, University of California Press
in English
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Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe
1998, University of California Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-348) and index.
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