Author: Bet ha-tefutsot ʻal shem Naḥum GoldmanPublisher: Tel Aviv : Beth Hatefutsoth, The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora
ISBN:
Category : Art, Jewish
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Treasures of Jewish Galicia
Author: Bet ha-tefutsot ʻal shem Naḥum GoldmanPublisher: Tel Aviv : Beth Hatefutsoth, The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora
ISBN:
Category : Art, Jewish
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Treasures of Jewish Galicia
Author: Śarah Harʼel-ḤoshenSkarby dziedzictwa galicyjskich Żydów
Author: Eugeniusz DudaTreasures of Jewish Art
Author: Jacobo FurmanTraditional Jewish Papercuts
Author: Joseph ShadurPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584651659
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The definitive work on papercuts, a long-overlooked aspect of Jewish folk art.
הוד והדר
Author: Me'ir WunderLove and Treasure
Author: Ayelet WaldmanPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385533551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A spellbinding new novel of contraband masterpieces, tragic love, and the unexpected legacies of forgotten crimes, Ayelet Waldman’s Love and Treasure weaves a tale around the fascinating, true history of the Hungarian Gold Train in the Second World War. In 1945 on the outskirts of Salzburg, victorious American soldiers capture a train filled with unspeakable riches: piles of fine gold watches; mountains of fur coats; crates filled with wedding rings, silver picture frames, family heirlooms, and Shabbat candlesticks passed down through generations. Jack Wiseman, a tough, smart New York Jew, is the lieutenant charged with guarding this treasure—a responsibility that grows more complicated when he meets Ilona, a fierce, beautiful Hungarian who has lost everything in the ravages of the Holocaust. Seventy years later, amid the shadowy world of art dealers who profit off the sins of previous generations, Jack gives a necklace to his granddaughter, Natalie Stein, and charges her with searching for an unknown woman—a woman whose portrait and fate come to haunt Natalie, a woman whose secret may help Natalie to understand the guilt her grandfather will take to his grave and to find a way out of the mess she has made of her own life. A story of brilliantly drawn characters—a suave and shady art historian, a delusive and infatuated Freudian, a family of singing circus dwarfs fallen into the clutches of Josef Mengele, and desperate lovers facing choices that will tear them apart—Love and Treasure is Ayelet Waldman’s finest novel to date: a sad, funny, richly detailed work that poses hard questions about the value of precious things in a time when life itself has no value, and about the slenderest of chains that can bind us to the griefs and passions of the past. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
The Golden Age Shtetl
Author: Yohanan Petrovsky-ShternPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691168512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Neither a comprehensive history of Eastern European Jewish life or the shtetl, Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, focuses on three provinces Volhynia, Podolia, and Kiev of the then Russian Empire during what he deems the golden age period, 1790 - 1840, when the shtetl was "the unique habitat of some 80 percent of East European Jews."
The Porous Museum
Author: Gabriela NicolescuPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350196649
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest. The museum has functioned successively as a museum of art, a communist museum, the headquarters of the communist secret police, and a museum of folk art. Gabriela Nicolescu traces the museum's spectacular biography and follows the transformation of its practices and aesthetics through three very different political regimes in the 20th and early 21st century: monarchist, socialist and post-socialist. Nicolescu's fascinating study starts with a focus on a dumped and smashed statue of the revolutionary figureheads Marx, Engels and Lenin in the museum's rear yard as an expression of the complicated journey of modern Romania. She considers questions of recycling and rupture, with some exhibits and practices carried over from one regime to another, whilst others have been discarded in favour of the completely new. Through this process, the museum can been seen as a microcosm of the wider nation state and the ways in which the past is remembered or rejected. The interdependency of politics, ethics and aesthetics that Nicolescu terms 'porosity' is an attribute of museums all over the world. Applying original anthropological research to key ethnographic museums in Romania and elsewhere in Europe, the book moves beyond regional and media stereotypes by arguing for the influence of local oral histories on national history.
Jewish Icons
Author: Richard I. CohenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520917910
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book 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.