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title: "Modern Jewry and the Arts" | ||
description: "This exhibition presents work in a rich diversity of cultural media and genres to explore modern Jewish aesthetic production." | ||
date: "2000-2001" | ||
title: Modern Jewry and the Arts | ||
description: This exhibition presents work in a rich diversity of cultural media | ||
and genres to explore modern Jewish aesthetic production. | ||
date: 2000-2001 | ||
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title: "Modern Jewry and the Arts" | ||
tagline: "An Online Exhibition from the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies 2000-2001 Fellows at the University of Pennsylvania" | ||
slug: "modern-jewry-and-the-arts" | ||
title: Modern Jewry and the Arts | ||
tagline: An Online Exhibition from the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced | ||
Judaic Studies 2000-2001 Fellows at the University of Pennsylvania | ||
slug: modern-jewry-and-the-arts | ||
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## Introduction | ||
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This year's exhibition on Modern Jewry and the Arts presents work in a rich diversity of cultural media and genres. Jewish artists have been respected contributors to modern music, film, theater, and visual art, and their activities encompass high art, mass media, and popular culture forms. But what is "Jewish Art?" Any art produced by Jews? Any art with Jewish content? Is there a distinctive Jewish style? | ||
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Most of these questions presume standards set by conventional cultural histories, which despite universalizing goals, define the arts in national terms. Does that mean, then, that Jewish art is exclusively made in Israel, the modern Jewish state, or does it also describe art made by Jews in the Diaspora? Clearly, the questions that emerge from this study of Jewish art and culture are bound to the most pressing concerns of modern Jewish history generally, as well as to questions concerning the production and valuation of modern art. | ||
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For a study of Jewish art and culture, diversity acquires additional significance, beyond the variety of forms and media. These works express a diverse "Jewish-ness" -- belying the homogeneity that the term "modern Jewry" implies. They testify to the diversity among Jews, the many ways of being a modern Jew, and through the arts, suggest ways of constructing a modern Jewish identity. At the same time, while often preoccupied with the concerns of Jewish community, Jewish artists in the modern period have avoided parochialism and participated in the many national cultures of which they are also a part. This participation extends to culture's institutional forms: its markets and commerce, its museums and academies, media distributions and technology-all sites where Jews have played an active and formative role. | ||
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Most of these questions presume standards set by conventional cultural histories, which despite universalizing goals, define the arts in national terms. Does that mean, then, that Jewish art is exclusively made in Israel, the modern Jewish state, or does it also describe art made by Jews in the Diaspora? Clearly, the questions that emerge from this study of Jewish art and culture are bound to the most pressing concerns of modern Jewish history generally, as well as to questions concerning the production and valuation of modern art. | ||
Our exhibit offers a few examples of works that address these issues and our discussions this year. Each Fellow has selected an image from a particular branch of the arts that represents the strength and the challenge of modern Jewish culture. They demonstrate the extraordinary depth and variety of Jewish art, and suggest, we hope, new avenues of cultural research. | ||
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Carol Zemel | ||
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## Exhibit | ||
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### Art | ||
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For a study of Jewish art and culture, diversity acquires additional significance, beyond the variety of forms and media. These works express a diverse "Jewish-ness" -- belying the homogeneity that the term "modern Jewry" implies. They testify to the diversity among Jews, the many ways of being a modern Jew, and through the arts, suggest ways of constructing a modern Jewish identity. At the same time, while often preoccupied with the concerns of Jewish community, Jewish artists in the modern period have avoided parochialism and participated in the many national cultures of which they are also a part. This participation extends to culture's institutional forms: its markets and commerce, its museums and academies, media distributions and technology-all sites where Jews have played an active and formative role. | ||
### Music | ||
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### Theater & Film | ||
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### Dance | ||
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Our exhibit offers a few examples of works that address these issues and our discussions this year. Each Fellow has selected an image from a particular branch of the arts that represents the strength and the challenge of modern Jewish culture. They demonstrate the extraordinary depth and variety of Jewish art, and suggest, we hope, new avenues of cultural research. | ||
### Institutions & Display | ||
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## Selected Bibliography | ||
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• **Kalman P. Bland.** _The Artless Jew: Medieval and Modern Affirmations and Denials of the Visual._ (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000). | ||
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Carol Zemel | ||
• **Richard I. Cohen.** _Self-Image Through Objects: Toward a Social History of Jewish Art Collecting and Jewish Museums._ In _The Uses of Tradition: Jewish Continuity in the Modern Era,_ edited by Jack Wertheimer, pp. 203–242. (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1992). | ||
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## Exhibit | ||
• **Richard I. Cohen.** _Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe._ (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998). | ||
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## Selected Bibliography | ||
• **Ezra Mendelsohn, Richard I. Cohen (editors).** _Art and Its Uses: The Visual Image and Modern Jewish Society._ In _Studies in Contemporary Jewry,_ 6. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990). | ||
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• **Gideon Ofrat.** _One Hundred Years of Art in Israel._ Translated by Peretz Kidron. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1998). | ||
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• **Larry Silver.** _Jewish Identity in Art and History: Maurycy Gottlieb as Early Jewish Artist._ In _Jewish Identity in Modern Art History,_ edited by Catherine M. Soussloff, pp. 87–113. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). | ||
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• **Meyer W. Weisgal.** _Meyer Weisgal, … So Far: An Autobiography._ (New York: Random House, 1971). | ||
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• **Robert S. Wistrich.** _The Demonization of the Other in the Visual Arts._ In _Demonizing the Other: Antisemitism, Racism and Xenophobia,_ edited by Robert S. Wistrich, _Studies in Antisemitism,_ vol. 4, pp. 44–72. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). | ||
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• **Lilian Karina, Marion Kant.** _Tanz unterm Hakenkreuz: eine Dokumentation._ (Berlin: Henschel Verlag, 1999). | ||
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• **Susan Rubin Suleiman.** _History, Memory, and Moral Judgment in Documentary Film: On Marcel Ophuls’ Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie._ In _Critical Inquiry._ (Forthcoming, 2001 or 2002). | ||
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• **Judith Thissen.** _Jewish Immigrant Audiences in New York City, 1905-1914._ In _American Movie Audiences: From the Turn of the Century to the Early Sound Era,_ edited by Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby, pp. 15–28. (London: BFI Publishing, 1999). | ||
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• **Amy Horowitz.** _Israeli Mediterranean Music: Cultural Boundaries and Disputed Territories._ (University of Pennsylvania, 1994). | ||
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• **Ezra Mendelsohn (editor).** _Modern Jews and Their Musical Agendas._ In _Studies in Contemporary Jewry,_ 9. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). | ||
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• **Mark Slobin.** _Tenement Songs: The Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants._ (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982). | ||
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• **Mendel Kohansky.** _The Hebrew Theatre, its First Fifty Years._ (New York: Ktav, 1969). | ||
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• **Emanuel Levy.** _The Habima, Israel’s National Theater, 1917-1977: A Study of Cultural Nationalism._ (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979). | ||
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• **Nahma Sandrow.** _Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater._ (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996). Contributors | ||
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## Contributors | ||
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* Anat Helman - Hebrew University/CAJS 2001 | ||
* Amy Horowitz - American University/CAJS 2001 | ||
* Marion Kant (ENTARTETE MUSIK | Joseph Lewitan) - University of Surrey/CAJS 2001 | ||
* Jonathan Karp - SUNY Binghamton/CAJS 2001 | ||
* Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett - New York University/CAJS 2001 | ||
* Mark Kligman - Hebrew Union College/CAJS 2001 | ||
* Dianna Linden - University of Wisconsin/CAJS 2001 | ||
* Ezra Mendelsohn - Hebrew University/CAJS 2001 | ||
* Susan Rubin Suleiman - Harvard University/CAJS 2001 | ||
* Judith Thissen - Utrecht University/CAJS 2001 | ||
* Nina Warnke - University of Texas, Austin/CAJS 2001 | ||
* Carol Zemel - York University/CAJS 2001 | ||
* Anat Helman - Hebrew University/CAJS 2001 | ||
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* Amy Horowitz - American University/CAJS 2001 | ||
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* Marion Kant (ENTARTETE MUSIK | Joseph Lewitan) - University of Surrey/CAJS 2001 | ||
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* Jonathan Karp - SUNY Binghamton/CAJS 2001 | ||
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* Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett - New York University/CAJS 2001 | ||
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* Mark Kligman - Hebrew Union College/CAJS 2001 | ||
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* Dianna Linden - University of Wisconsin/CAJS 2001 | ||
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* Ezra Mendelsohn - Hebrew University/CAJS 2001 | ||
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* Susan Rubin Suleiman - Harvard University/CAJS 2001 | ||
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* Judith Thissen - Utrecht University/CAJS 2001 | ||
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* Nina Warnke - University of Texas, Austin/CAJS 2001 | ||
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* Carol Zemel - York University/CAJS 2001 |