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Visual Imaginations and Modern Jewish History

Av Richard I. Cohen

Del i serien Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry

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Establishes the centrality of visual culture within Judaism and Jewish history.Visual Imaginations and Modern Jewish History traces how visual experience reflected and shaped Jewish life from the late seventeenth century onward. Richard I. Cohen shows how images, spaces, and objects were central to the making of modern Jewish identities and how the act of seeing itself became a site of cultural negotiation. Cohen claims that the prominence of visual art in modern Jewish life cannot be overlooked. Visual expression has become such a significant factor in Jewish life that it serves as both a mirror and an agent of Jewish modernity.Cohen engages with a range of artists, figures like Moses Mendelssohn, Uriel Da Costa, and Baruch Spinoza, and such topics as the visual imaginings of the Mishnah, Jews in the military, and the motif of the Wandering Jew. Taken as a whole, the studies in this book argue that approaching modern Jewish history through images is not to replace the written word, but to restore to it the world of sight that Jews inhabited, created, and transformed.
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Richard I. Cohen is emeritus professor of Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His books include The Burden of Conscience: French-Jewish Leadership During the Holocaust; Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe; and, with Mirjam Rajner, Samuel Hirszenberg 1865–1908: A Polish Jewish Artist in Turmoil. He has also co-curated and coedited From Court Jews to the Rothschilds: Art, Patronage, and Power, 1600-1800 and Le Juif Errant: Un témoin de temps.

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“How rare that a historian so thoroughly, meticulously, and rigorously analyzes imaging—and not just images—for insights into major moments in the history of European Jews. Deft and eloquent, detailed and insightful, and above all erudite, Visual Imaginations and Modern Jewish History is a fascinating journey through the highways and byways of Jewish visual culture. Cohen explores Jewish visual culture in its own right and as a lens, as a way of looking at history. A tour de force in the reading of images for what they can tell us about themselves and about those who made and consumed them.”

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