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The nation without art : examining modern discourses on Jewish art / by Olin, Margaret Rose,1948-author.(CARDINAL)835798;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-261) and index.Preface: Reflections from Vienna -- pt. 1. Defining Jewish Art -- 1. Jewish Art Defined: From Bezalel to Max Liebermann -- 2. The Nation with Art? Bezalel in Palestine -- pt. 2. Reclaiming Jewish Art -- 3. David Kaufmann's Studies in Jewish Art: Die (Kunst)Wissenschaft des Judentums -- 4. Martin Buber: Jewish Art As Visual Redemption -- 5. "Jewish Christians" and "Early Christian" Synagogues: The Discovery at Dura-Europos and Its Aftermath -- pt. 3. Abstaining from Jewish Art -- 6. C(lement) Hardesh (Greenberg): Formal Criticism and Jewish Identity -- 7. Graven Images on Video? The Second Commandment and Contemporary Jewish Identity."Looking through the history of art, a reader might conclude that Jews could not create art - and such an assumption, historically incorrect, would be no accident. As we see with disturbing clarity in this book, the discipline of art history - even the first scholarly studies of Jewish works of art - encourages the idea of the nonartistic Jew. Covering the last two centuries, The Nation without Art illuminates the rise of the paradigm of the nonartistic Jew and expresses the ways in which theorists, critics, and artists have sought to subvert, over-come, or work within it.""Case studies explore the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem, whose efforts to use art to create a Jewish nationality in Palestine raise important issues of national identity, and the discovery in 1932 of the third-century Synagogue of Dura Europos, a symbol for scholars struggling against the Third Reich. Among those who supported or challenged concepts of Jewish art, Margaret Olin considers the nineteenth-century rabbinical scholar David Kaufmann, the philosopher Martin Buber, the critic Clement Greenberg, and the filmmaker Chantal Akerman.Olin's work broadens our understanding of the relation of Jews to the visual image, critiques the nationalist, ethnocentric paradigms of current disciplines, and offers insight into the tenacious art historical discourses that thinkers must inhabit uncomfortably or escape with considerable difficulty."--Jacket.
Subjects: Jewish art.; Judaism in art.; Art; Jews;
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Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman world : toward a new Jewish archaeology / by Fine, Steven,author.(CARDINAL)210417;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252) and indexes.Building an ancient synagogue on the Delaware: Philadelphia's Henry S. Frank Memorial Synagogue and constructions of Jewish art at the turn of the twentieth century -- The old-new land: "Jewish archaeology" and the Zionist narrative -- Archaeology and the search for "non-rabbinic Judaism" -- Art history: transmitting Jewish artlessness to new generations -- Toward a new "Jewish archaeology": methodological reflections -- Art and identity in latter Second Temple period Judaism: the Hasmonean royal tombs at Modi'in -- Art and identity in late antique Palestine: the Na'aran synagogue -- Art and identity in diaspora communities in late antiquity: from Nehardea to Rome -- Between Rome and Jerusalem: the date palm as a "Jewish symbol" -- "The lamps of Israel": the menorah as a Jewish symbol -- The Dura Europos synagogue and its liturgical parchment -- Synagogue mosaics and liturgy in the land of Israel -- Sanctity and the art of ancient synagogues.
Subjects: Jewish art and symbolism.; Synagogue art.; Synagogue architecture.; Judaism and art; Judaism; Judaism;
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The art of Hanukkah / by Berman, Nancy M.,author.(CARDINAL)186216; Fox, Vicki Reikes,author.(CARDINAL)266717;
Cervera Bible -- Aaron pouring oil into the Menorah -- Ledman/Figdor Lamp -- Judah the Maccabee and Judith and Holofernes -- Judith -- Palazzo lamp -- Renaissance lamp -- Hannah and Her Seven Sons -- Heilperin lamp -- Star hanging lamp for the Sabbath and festivals -- Boller lamp -- Pewter bench-type lamp -- Judith and Holofernes (from a Book of blessings) -- Rintel lamp -- 18th-century Dutch lamp -- Brody lamp -- Polish brass lamp -- North African lamps -- "Oak tree" lamp -- Mirror lamp -- Hirsch lamp -- Rothschild lamp -- The Kindling of the Hanukkah Lights -- Chair lamp -- Lighting the Hanukkah Lamp -- 19th-century wooden dreidels -- Hamsa lamp -- Damascene lamp -- Synagogue ark lamp -- Mintz collection lamp -- Yemini lamp -- Judah the Maccabee lamp -- Stature of Liberty lamp -- We Kindle These Lights -- Masada lamp -- Natzler lamp -- Meier lamp -- Los Angeles lamp -- Hanukkah Lamp in four levels -- Temple lamp -- The Lamp That Burned On -- From: Haneirot Halalu : These Lights are Holy -- Hanukkah in New York -- Contemporary dreidels -- Meander Lamp -- Hanukkah Still Life -- In Days of Old, at This Season -- Menorah and Magnolias.One of the most joyous weeks in the Jewish year is when families gather for eight evenings to celebrate the festival of Hanukkah. Jews the world over mark this holiday of freedom with the lighting of the Hanukkah menorah, while children spin a dreidel and eat sufganiyot and potato latkes. Presents are exchanged, and the story of Hanukkah is retold through songs and prayers. This book, through its selection of forty-eight masterpieces of holiday ceremonial and fine art, tells the story of the desecration of the holy Temple, its subsequent reclaiming and rededication, and the miracle of the single, tiny cruse of oil that continued to provide light for eight days. From individual oil lamps to medieval creations, through the sumptuous flourishes of Baroque decorations to contemporary times, these Hanukkah menorahs reflect the adaptability of Jewish culture throughout the Diaspora. Menorahs, paintings, dreidels - all the wonderful elements of the celebration of Hanukkah from around the world and throughout the centuries have been brought together in this one marvelous book. Clear, insightful, and thought-provoking commentaries make this book a perfect complement to the holiday.
Subjects: Hanukkah in art.; Hanukkah lamp; Hanukkah; Jewish art and symbolism.; Judaism;
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Alles hat seine Zeit : Rituale gegen das Vergessen = A time for everything : rituals against forgetting / by Heimann-Jelinek, Felicitas.(CARDINAL)318918; Purin, Bernhard,1963-(CARDINAL)318917; Jüdisches Museum München.(CARDINAL)318916;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Jewish art objects; Judaism; Jewish way of life; Memorials in art;
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New works, old story : 80 artists at the Passover table : the Dorothy Saxe Invitational / by Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco, Calif.)(CARDINAL)295651;
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Passover in art; Passover; Judaism;
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Reframing Rembrandt : Jews and the Christian image in seventeenth-century Amsterdam / by Zell, Michael,1962-author.(CARDINAL)891419; University of California Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)280932;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-254) and index.This richly detailed study reconceptualizes a striking but enigmatic moment in Rembrandt's art from the 1650s-one of the artist's most prolific and creative periods. Michael Zell identifies a significant theological shift in Rembrandt's use of religious imagery and interprets this shift in light of the unique religious and social conditions of seventeenth-century Amsterdam. Rembrandt's biblical art has generally been regarded as the embodiment of a Protestant aesthetic. By looking closely at the artist's relationship with his patron Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel and the ideas of a group of "philosemitic" Protestants with whom the rabbi was engaged in an apologetic dialogue, Zell deepens and complicates our understanding of Rembrandt's sacred art from this period.
Subjects: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669; Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657.; Judaism in art; Christianity; Jews in art; Christians;
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Judaism and the visual image : a Jewish theology of art / by Raphael, Melissa,author.(CARDINAL)841281;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-224) and index.The second commandment in Jewish art and thought -- Genesis 1 and the creation of the image -- What does a Jewish woman look like? Gender and images of Jews in art -- Sublimity and representation of the Holocaust in art -- Towards a theology of the Holocaust image -- The dancing figure of Jewish history."The widespread assumption that Jewish religious tradition is mediated through words, not pictures, has left Jewish art with no significant role to play in Jewish theology and ethics ... Judaism and the Visual Image argues for a Jewish theology of image that, among other things, helps us re-read the creation story in Genesis 1 and to question why images of Jewish women as religious subjects appear to be doubly suppressed by the Second Commandment, when images of observant male Jews have become legitimate, even iconic, representations of Jewish holiness. Raphael further suggests that 'devout beholding' of images of the Holocaust is a corrective to post-Holocaust theologies of divine absence from suffering that are infused by a sub-theological aesthetic of the sublime. Raphael concludes by proposing that the relationship between God and Israel composes itself into a unitary dance or moving image by which each generation participates in a processive revelation that is itself the ultimate work of Jewish art."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Ten commandments; Aesthetics; Judaism and art.; Jewish art and symbolism.; Jews in art.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.;
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Neglected witnesses : the fate of Jewish ceremonial objects during the Second World War and after / by Cohen, Julie-Marthe,editor.(CARDINAL)281341; Heimann-Jelinek, Felicitas,editor.(CARDINAL)318918; Institute of Art and Law (Great Britain),issuing body.(CARDINAL)818007; Joods Historisch Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands),issuing body.(CARDINAL)150939;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Jewish art and symbolism.; Judaism; Judaism; Jewish property; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.; World War, 1939-1945;
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The service of beauty : discovering art and ethics in Jewish worship / by Ettin, Andrew V.,1943-(CARDINAL)731841;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-257).
Subjects: Worship (Judaism); Judaism; Fasts and feasts; Jewish way of life.; Jewish ethics.; Judaism and art.;
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Symbols of Judaism / by Ouaknin, Marc-Alain.(CARDINAL)192132; Hamani, Laziz.(CARDINAL)210450;
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Judaism; Judaism; Jewish art and symbolism;
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