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In this first book-length study of Jewish art in America, Matthew Baigell explores works from the early settlers of America to the present. It is a narrative history of the Jewish experience in American art as seen through the works of many different artists. Its main focus is t…
"Jewish Art in America explores how the artists' Jewish heritage plays a part in their response to major events in history such as the Great Migration, the Great Depression, the Holocaust, the founding of the State of Israel, and the dispersal of Jewish artists around the countr…
Art in Zion deals with the link between art and national ideology and specifically between the artistic activity that emerged in Jewish Palestine in the first decades of the twentieth century and the Zionist movement. In order to examine the development of national art in Jewish…
This book develops the thesis that the transition from premodernism to postmodernism in art of the digital age represents a paradigm shift from the Hellenistic to the Hebraic roots of Western culture. Semiotic and morphological analysis of art and visual culture demonstrate the …
The 13 essays in 'Judaism and Christian Art' reveal that Christian art has always defined itself through the figures of Judaism that it produces.
Christian cultures across the centuries have invoked Judaism in order to debate, represent, and contain the dangers presented by the sensual nature of art. By engaging Judaism, both real and imagined, they explored and expanded the perils and possibilities for Christian represen…
A collection of essays (most of them published previously) dealing with Christian perceptions of and polemics with Judaism, modern perceptions of Jewish history, and post-Holocaust Jewish and Christian theology. Some of the essays appeared also in his Hebrew collection, "Tadmit …
Der Menora-Ring von Kaiseraugst
by Berger, Ludwig, Berger, Ludwig, Häuptli, Bruno W., Augusta Raurica
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Type: Book
Judaica - Judentum - Juden - Menora - Symbolik - Castrum Rauracense
The book asks all the right questions about society, culture, religion and art.
Can we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. Children of survivors and their contemporaries inherit catastrophic histories not thro…