Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook224 pages2 hours
Jewish Cultural Aspirations
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
In the late nineteenth century in Europe and to some extent in the United States, the Jewish upper middle class—particularly the more affluent families—began to enter the cultural spheres of public life, especially in major cities such as Vienna, Berlin, Paris, New York, and London. While many aspects of society were closed to them, theater, the visual arts, music, and art publication were far more inviting, especially if they involved challenging aspects of modernity that might be less attractive to Gentile society. Jews had far less to lose in embracing new forms of expression, and they were very attracted to what was regarded as the universality of cultural expression. Ultimately, these new cultural ideals had an enormous influence on art institutions and artistic manifestations in America and may explain why Jews have been active in the arts in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to a degree totally out of proportion to their presence in the US population. Jewish cultural activities and aspirations form the focus of the contributions to this volume. Invited authors include senior figures in the field such as Matthew Baigell and Emily Bilski, alongside authors of a younger generation such as Daniel Magilow and Marcie Kaufman. There is also an essay by noted Los Angeles artist and photographer Bill Aron. The guest editor of the volume, Ruth Weisberg, provides an Introduction that places the individual contributions in context.
Unavailable
Related to Jewish Cultural Aspirations
Related ebooks
Jewish Cultural Aspirations Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeyond Alliances: The Jewish Role in Reshaping the Racial Landscape of Southern California Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Brighton Beach Bible Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRedeeming Vision: A Christian Guide to Looking at and Learning from Art Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmerican Politics and the Jewish Community Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLiterary Awakenings: Personal Essays from the Hudson Review Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890–1925 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Shtetl and Other Yiddish Novellas Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHolocaust Memory Reframed: Museums and the Challenges of Representation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReading Israel, Reading America: The Politics of Translation between Jews Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Art of the Moving Picture Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Invisible Palestinians: The Hidden Struggle for Inclusion in Jewish Tel Aviv Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLooking Jewish: Visual Culture & Modern Diaspora Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Cow Behind the Barn: Poems, Songs, and the Art of Being Human Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920-1950 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLanguage of Vision Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A View from the South: The Narrative Art of Boyd Saunders Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTransnationalism and Translation in Modern Chinese, English, French and Japanese Literatures Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsModern Ladino Culture: Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late Ottoman Empire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRace and Photography: Racial Photography as Scientific Evidence, 1876-1980 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siècle Europe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEminent Authors of the Nineteenth Century: Literary Portraits Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLit from Within: Contemporary Masters on the Art and Craft of Writing Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Poetics of Orthodoxy: Christian Truth as Aesthetic Foundation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5After the Virus: The Rebirth of a Multipolar World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsListening to the Other: Versions of Yiddish, Vietnamese, and Aztec Poetry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Literary Discipline Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Jewish History For You
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book Thief: A Novel by Markus Zusak | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lily's Promise: Holding On to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond—A Story for All Generations Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInside the Middle East: Making Sense of the Most Dangerous and Complicated Region on Earth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Jewish Way: Living the Holidays Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jewish Wisdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Toward a Meaningful Life: The Wisdom of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5NIV, First-Century Study Bible: Explore Scripture in Its Jewish and Early Christian Context Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Land of Hope and Fear: Israel’s battle for its inner soul Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGenius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Josephus Complete Works Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Weight Of Ink Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eva: A Novel of the Holocaust Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A History of the Jews: The Indestructible Jews, The Jews in America, and Appointment in Jerusalem Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Five Books of Maccabees in English: With Notes and Illustrations Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFive Chimneys: A Woman Survivor’s True Story Of Auschwitz [Illustrated Edition] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5History of the Jews Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Jewish Cultural Aspirations
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews