Berlin metropolis
Subtitle: Jews and the new culture, 1890-1918
By: [edited by] Emily D. Bilski with essays by Sigrid Bauschinger ... [et al.]
Contributors: Bilski, Emily D., 1956-; Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: University of California Press; Jewish Museum
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Art, German -- Germany -- Berlin; Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Germany -- Berlin; Art, German -- 20th century -- Germany -- Berlin; Jewish artists -- Germany -- Berlin
Description: "Between 1890 and 1918, the city of Berlin was rapidly transformed into a commercial and industrial hub that also developed into an international center for innovative ideas in the visual, performing, and literary arts. Although restricted from full participation in certain areas of public life, Jews were key leaders in developing a unique, vibrant, and cosmopolitan culture.

Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture, 1890-1918 vividly documents the diverse ways that Jewish artists, intellectuals, and cultural impresarios participated in this burst of creativity and promoted the emergence of modernism in Berlin and on the international scene."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Catalog for the exhibition ... [et al.] held at the Jewish Museum, New York, Nov. 14, 1999-April 23, 2000

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-256) and index
Table of contents: title: The Berlin Jew as cosmopolitan / Paul Mendes-Flohr; title: Modernism and the "alien element" in German art / Peter Paret; title: The Berlin moderns: Else Lasker-Schüler and Café Culture / Sigrid Bauschinger; title: Images of identity and urban life: Jewish artists in turn-of-the-century Berlin / Emily D. Bilski; title: Max Liebermann as a "Jewish" painter: the artist's reception in his time / Chana C. Schütz; title: Jewish renaissance; title: Jewish modernism / Inka Bertz; title: Encounters at the margins: Jewish salons around 1900 / Barbara Hahn; title: Performing high and low: Jews in modern theater, cabaret, revue, and film / Peter Jelavich; title: Chronology: 1890-1918