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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10645999.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-348) and index.".
- catalog description "The Visual Image of the Jew and Judaism -- Ceremonial Art, Patronage, and Taste -- The Rabbi as Icon -- Nostalgia and "The Return to the Ghetto" -- Self-Exposure, Self-Image, and Memory -- Images of Jewish Fate.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 358 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520205456 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog subject "704.03/924/00903 21".
- catalog subject "Art and society.".
- catalog subject "Jewish art and symbolism.".
- catalog subject "Jews Identity.".
- catalog subject "Jews Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "Jews in art.".
- catalog subject "N7415 .C556 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Visual Image of the Jew and Judaism -- Ceremonial Art, Patronage, and Taste -- The Rabbi as Icon -- Nostalgia and "The Return to the Ghetto" -- Self-Exposure, Self-Image, and Memory -- Images of Jewish Fate.".
- catalog title "Jewish icons : art and society in modern Europe / Richard I. Cohen.".
- catalog type "text".