The art of being Jewish in modern times
By: edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jonathan Karp.
Contributors: Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara.; Karp, Jonathan, 1960-
Series: Jewish culture and contexts
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9780812240023
Subjects: Arts, Jewish -- 20th century; Jews -- Identity -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-443).
Table of contents: title: Theater as educational institution : Jewish immigrant intellectuals and Yiddish theater reform / Nina Warnke; title: Film and vaudeville on New York's Lower East Side / Judith Thissen; title: Of maestros and minstrels : American Jewish composers between Black vernacular and European art music / Jonathan Karp; title: May Day, tractors, and piglets : Yiddish songs for little communists / Anna Shternshis; title: Performing the state : the Jewish Palestine pavilion at the New York World's Fair, 1939/40 / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett; title: Was there anything particularly Jewish about "the first Hebrew city"? / Anat Helman; title: Re-routing roots : Zehava Ben's journey between shuk and suk / Amy Horowitz; title: The "wandering Jew" from medieval legend to modern metaphor / Richard I. Cohen; title: Diasporic values in contemporary art : Kitaj, Katchor, Frenkel / Carol Zemel; title: Modern? American? Jew? museums and exhibitions of Ben Shahn's late paintings / Diana L. Linden; title: Max Liebermann and the Amsterdam Jewish quarter / Walter Cahn; title: Rome and Jerusalem : the figure of Jesus in the creation of Mark Antokol'skii / Olga Litvak; title: A modern mitzvah-space-aesthecic : the philosophy of Franz Rosenzwieg / Zachary Braiterman; title: Reestablising a "Jewish spirit" in American synagogue music : the music of A.W. Binder / Mark Kligman; title: The evolution of Philadelphia's Russian sher medley / Hankus Netsky; title: Framing Nazi art loot / Charles Dellheim; title: Joseph Lewitan and the Nazification of dance in Germany / Marion Kant; title: History, memory, and moral judgment in documentary film : on Marcel Ophul's Hotel terminus: the life and times of Klaus Barbie / Susan Rubin Suleiman.