Jewish Icons

Author : Richard I. Cohen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 052091791X

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Jewish Icons by Richard I. Cohen Pdf

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.

Author : Ellen Frankel,Betsy Platkin Teutsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780876685945

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The Encyclopedia of Jewish Symbols by Ellen Frankel,Betsy Platkin Teutsch Pdf

... Jewish experience today. each entry traces the Symbol's history from its ancient roots to its modern expression.

Author : Marc-Alain Ouaknin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Jewish art
ISBN : 0760742359

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Symbols of Judaism by Marc-Alain Ouaknin Pdf

Author : Oren Baruch Stier
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813574042

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Holocaust Icons by Oren Baruch Stier Pdf

The Holocaust has bequeathed to contemporary society a cultural lexicon of intensely powerful symbols, a vocabulary of remembrance that we draw on to comprehend the otherwise incomprehensible horror of the Shoah. Engagingly written and illustrated with more than forty black-and-white images, Holocaust Icons probes the history and memory of four of these symbolic relics left in the Holocaust’s wake. Jewish studies scholar Oren Stier offers in this volume new insight into symbols and the symbol-making process, as he traces the lives and afterlives of certain remnants of the Holocaust and their ongoing impact. Stier focuses in particular on four icons: the railway cars that carried Jews to their deaths, symbolizing the mechanics of murder; the Arbeit Macht Frei (“work makes you free”) sign over the entrance to Auschwitz, pointing to the insidious logic of the camp system; the number six million that represents an approximation of the number of Jews killed as well as mass murder more generally; and the persona of Anne Frank, associated with victimization. Stier shows how and why these icons—an object, a phrase, a number, and a person—have come to stand in for the Holocaust: where they came from and how they have been used and reproduced; how they are presently at risk from a variety of threats such as commodification; and what the future holds for the memory of the Shoah. In illuminating these icons of the Holocaust, Stier offers valuable new perspective on one of the defining events of the twentieth century. He helps readers understand not only the Holocaust but also the profound nature of historical memory itself.

Author : Rivka Ulmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 9783110223927

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Egyptian Cultural Icons in Midrash by Rivka Ulmer Pdf

Rabbinic midrash of late antiquity and the early medieval period visualized Egypt and presented Egyptian religious concepts and icons. Midrash is analyzed in a cross-cultural perspective utilizing insights from the discipline of Egyptology. Topics: the Greco-Roman Nile god, Isis, Serapis and other gods, festivals, mummy portraits, funeral customs, the Egyptian language, Pharaohs, Cleopatra, Alexandria, the divine eye. The hermeneutical role of Egyptian cultural icons in midrash is explored.

Author : Batya Brutin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110656916

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Holocaust Icons in Art: The Warsaw Ghetto Boy and Anne Frank by Batya Brutin Pdf

The photographs of the unknown Warsaw Ghetto little boy and the well-known Anne Frank became famous documents worldwide, representing the Holocaust. Many artists adopted them as a source of inspiration to express their feelings and ideas about Holocaust events in general and to deal with the fate of these two victims in particular. Moreover, the artists emphasized the uniqueness of both children, but at the same time used their image to convey social and political messages. By using images of these children, the artists both evoke our attention and sympathy and our anger against the Nazis’ crime of killing one and a half million Jewish children in the Holocaust. Because they represent different sexes, and different aspects - Western and Eastern Jewry - of Holocaust experience, artists used them in many contexts. This book will complete the lack of comprehensive research referring to the visual representations of these children in artworks.

Author : Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0691605084

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Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period by Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough Pdf

This volume presents the most important portions of Erwin Goodenough's classic thirteen-volume work, a magisterial attempt to encompass human spiritual history in general through the study of Jewish symbols in particular. Revealing that the Jewish religion of the period was much more varied and complex than the extant Talmudic literature would lead us to believe, Goodenough offered evidence for the existence of a Hellenistic-Jewish mystic mythology far closer to the Qabbalah than to rabbinical Judaism. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Abram Kanof
Publisher : Gefen Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034386172

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Jewish Symbolic Art by Abram Kanof Pdf

Universal symbols from Jewish and Christian traditions.

Author : Joseph Gutmann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9004068937

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Iconography of Religions by Joseph Gutmann Pdf

Author : Gerbern S. Oegema
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019429559

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The History of the Shield of David by Gerbern S. Oegema Pdf

A study of the evolution of the six-pointed star (in Hebrew, "Magen David" - "the Shield of David") as a Jewish symbol, from the Middle Ages to the present. For antisemitism, see pp. 68-72, "Jewish Hat and Jewish Badge as Distinctive Marks, " and pp. 120-125, "The Shield of David as an Antisemitic Symbol."

Author : Harvey E.,Steven M. Cohen,Ezra Kopelowitz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857452580

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Dynamic Belonging by Harvey E.,Steven M. Cohen,Ezra Kopelowitz Pdf

World Jewry today is concentrated in the US and Israel, and while distinctive Judaic approaches and practices have evolved in each society, parallels also exist. This volume offers studies of substantive and creative aspects of Jewish belonging. While research in Israel on Judaism has stressed orthodox or "extreme" versions of religiosity, linked to institutional life and politics, moderate and less systematized expressions of Jewish belonging are overlooked. This volume explores the fluid and dynamic nature of identity building among Jews and the many issues that cut across different Jewish groupings. An important contribution to scholarship on contemporary Jewry, it reveals the often unrecognized dynamism in new forms of Jewish identification and affiliation in Israel and in the Diaspora.

Author : Ruth Ellen Gruber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520920929

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Virtually Jewish by Ruth Ellen Gruber Pdf

More than half a century after the Holocaust, in countries where Jews make up just a tiny fraction of the population, products of Jewish culture (or what is perceived as Jewish culture) have become very viable components of the popular public domain. But how can there be a visible and growing Jewish presence in Europe, without the significant presence of Jews? Ruth Ellen Gruber explores this phenomenon, traveling through Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, and elsewhere to observe firsthand the many facets of a remarkable trend. Across the continent, Jewish festivals, performances, publications, and study programs abound. Jewish museums have opened by the dozen, and synagogues and Jewish quarters are being restored, often as tourist attractions. In Europe, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, klezmer music concerts, exhibitions, and cafes with Jewish themes are drawing enthusiastic--and often overwhelmingly non-Jewish--crowds. In what ways, Gruber asks, do non-Jews embrace and enact Jewish culture, and for what reasons? For some, the process is a way of filling in communist-era blanks. For others, it is a means of coming to terms with the Nazi legacy or a key to building (or rebuilding) a democratic and tolerant state. Clearly, the phenomenon has as many motivations as manifestations. Gruber investigates the issues surrounding this "virtual Jewish world" in three specific areas: the reclaiming of the built heritage, including synagogues, cemeteries, and former ghettos and Jewish quarters; the representation of Jewish culture through tourism and museums; and the role of klezmer and Yiddish music as typical "Jewish cultural products." Although she features the relationship of non-Jews to the Jewish phenomenon, Gruber also considers its effect on local Jews and Jewish communities and the revival of Jewish life in Europe. Her view of how the trend has developed and where it may be going is thoughtful, colorful, and very well informed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:635188644

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Jewish Symbols in the Greco-roman Period by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alec Mishory
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004405271

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Secularizing the Sacred by Alec Mishory Pdf

In Secularising the Sacred, Mishory offers an account of Zionist Israeli artists-designers' visual corpus and artistic lexicon of Jewish-Israeli icons as an anchor for the emerging “civil religion,” through a process of giving visual form to Zionist ideas and myths.

Author : Jeffrey Abt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781805392781

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Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough by Jeffrey Abt Pdf

Displays of Jewish ritual objects in public, non-Jewish settings by Jews are a comparatively recent phenomenon. So too is the establishment of Jewish museums. This volume explores the origins of the Jewish Museum of New York and its evolution from collecting and displaying Jewish ritual objects, to Jewish art, to exhibiting avant-garde art devoid of Jewish content, created by non-Jews. Established within a rabbinic seminary, the museum’s formation and development reflect changes in Jewish society over the twentieth century as it grappled with choices between religion and secularism, particularism and universalism, and ethnic pride and assimilation.