Authors: Emily D. Bilski, Emily Braun, Leon Botstein (Contribution by), Shira Brisman
ISBN-13: 9780300103854, ISBN-10: 0300103859
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Jewish Museum
Date Published: March 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Emily D. Bilski is an independent scholar and curator specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and cultural history. Emily Braun is professor of art history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.
An insightful look at the history of Jewish women's salons and their influence on art, music, literature, and politics.
Foreword | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
The power of conversation : Jewish women and their salons | 1 | |
A dream of living together : Jewish women in Berlin around 1800 | 149 | |
Music, femininity, and Jewish identity : the tradition and legacy of the salon | 159 | |
The salon and literary modernism : Proust, Wilde, Stein | 171 | |
Biographies | 195 |