Jewish women and their salons
Subtitle: the power of conversation
By: [curated by] Emily D. Bilski and Emily Braun ; with contributions by Leon Botstein ... [et al].
Contributors: Bilski, Emily D., 1956-; Braun, Emily, 1957-; Botstein, Leon.; Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Jewish Museum under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; Yale University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Jewish women -- Europe, Western -- Intellectual life -- Exhibitions; Jewish women -- Germany -- Berlin -- Intellectual life -- Exhibitions; Salons -- Europe, Western -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; Salons -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; Upper class -- Europe, Western -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; Europe, Western -- Intellectual life -- 19th century -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: Power of conversation
Notes: Catalog of the exhibition, The power of conversation : Jewish women and their salons, held at The Jewish Museum, New York, March 4-July 10, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: The power of conversation : Jewish women and their salons / Emily D. Bilski and Emily Braun; title: A dream of living together : Jewish women in Berlin around 1800 / Barbara Hahn; title: Music, femininity, and Jewish identity : The tradition and legacy of the salon / Leon Botstein; title: The salon and literary modernism : Proust, Wilde, Stein / Lucia Re; title: Biographies / Shira Brisman.