Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture: Antisemitism, Assimilation, Affirmation »

ROSE-CAROL WASHTON LONG is professor of art history, The Graduate Center, CUNY. MATTHEW BAIGELL is emeritus professor of art history, Rutgers University. MILLY HEYD is Nicolas Landau Professor of Modern Art in the Department of the History of Art at Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

A fascinating look at key aspects of visual culture in modern Jewish history

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Introduction 1

I Critical Responses to Modernism and Judaism

1 The Jew as Anti-Artist: Georges Sorel, Antisemitism, and the Aesthetics of Class Consciousness Mark Antliff Antliff, Mark 19

2 German Antisemitism and the Historiography of Modern Art: The Case of Julius Meier-Graefe, 1894-1905 Janne Gallen-Kallela-Siren Gallen-Kallela-Siren, Janne 51

3 The Ecole Francaise versus the Ecole de Paris: The Debate about the Status of Jewish Artists in Paris between the Wars Romy Golan Golan, Romy 77

4 Dada's Dark Secret Albert Boime Boime, Albert 90

5 "Ihr musst sein, auch wenn ihr nicht mehr seid": The Jewish Central Museum in Prague and Historical Memory in the Third Reich Dirk Rupnow Rupnow, Dirk 116

II Coded Representations

6 Identity and Interpretation: Reception of Toulouse-Lautrec's Reine de joie Poster in the 1890s Ruth Iskin Iskin, Ruth 145

7 George Grosz, Otto Dix, and the Philistines: The German-Jewish Question in the Weimar Republic Rose-Carol Washton Long Long, Rose-Carol Washton 167

8 Tristan Tzara / Shmuel Rosenstock: The Hidden/Overt Jewish Agenda Milly Heyd Heyd, Milly 193

9 Models of Freedom: The Young Yiddish Group from Lodz, 1919-1921 Marek Bartelik Bartelik, Marek 220

10 Soviet Artists, Jewish Images Matthew Baigell Baigell, Matthew 245

III Affirmation

11 Between Response and Responsiveness: On Michael Sgan-Cohen's Hinneni David Heyd Heyd, David 273

12 Postwar Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust Gavriel D. Rosenfeld Rosenfeld, Gavriel D. 285

13 Readymade Redux: Once More the Jewish Museum Lisa Saltzman Saltzman, Lisa 303

Contributors 317

Index 319