Product Description: Jewish art and visual culture―art made by Jews about Jews―in modern diasporic settings is the subject of Looking Jewish. Carol Zemel focuses on particular artists and cultural figures in interwar Eastern Europe and postwar America who blended Jewishness and mainstream modernism to create a diasporic art, one that transcends dominant national traditions...read more

Product Description: At its peak in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the so-called Spanish Reconquest transformed the societies of the Iberian Peninsula at nearly every level. Among the most vivid signs of this change were the innovative images developed by Christians to depict the subjugated Muslims and Jews within their vastly expanded kingdoms...read more

Product Description: This scholarly book examines historical depictions of Jewish people in comics.Jewish Images in the Comics showcases more than 150 comic strips, comic books and graphic novels from all over the world, stretching over the last five centuries and featuring Jewish characters and Jewish themes...read more

Product Description: In thirteen essays by leading art historians, and a critical introduction by the editor, Beyond the Yellow Badge seeks to reframe the relationship between European visual culture and the changing aspect of the Christian majority's negative conceptions of Jews and Judaism during the Middle Ages and early modern periods...read more

Product Description: Around Jewish Art: A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, and Photographers is likely to serve as a resource and permanent fixture for art enthusiasts and scholars around the world. From photographers to painters to sculptors, this comprehensive biographical dictionary references thousands of artists, both Jewish and non-Jewish who, by their depiction of the Jewish experience in their art, have contributed to the advancement of the culture...read more

Offers the first in-depth look at the art of Marc Chagall and the meanings of the sometimes hidden but more often overt images found in the 'lost Jewish world' of his childhood, from his early masterpieces made in Russia and in Paris to his Yiddish art theater paintings.

Tess DeNunzio tries to deal with the death of her younger sister, Zoe, by writing her a letter, as she moves from her mother and stepfather's family to live with her real father, and begins a romance with a boy who lives next door.

A professor of philosophy deconstructs the myth of Rembrandt and the Jews of Amsterdam, testing the notion that the great artist was a friend of Judaism while also painting a vivid portrait of the complex relationship between the Dutch and the Jews. (History)

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Maurycy Gottlieb was born in 1856 in the small city known in Polish as Drohobycz, then attached to the province of Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the course of his very short life (he died at age 23), Gottlieb painted dozens of extraordinary works that have since found homes in museums in eastern Europe. (where he has long been honored as a Polish artist) and in Israel, where, following a major exhibition in 1991 in Tel-Aviv, he achieved the status of a founding father of Jewish art. The subjects of his paintings range from self-portraits and portraits of family and friends to "orientalist" themes, historical topics, and biblical scenes, including two important representations of Jesus. Ezra Mendelsohn situates this impressive body of work in the context of contemporary European painting, and uses Gottlieb's work to illuminate the sociopolitical and cultural complexity of the multi-ethnic and multi-religious Austro-Hungarian Empire prior to World War I. Interpreting the paintings, and their reception in Gottlieb's day and beyond, Mendelsohn touches on a number of key issues in modern Jewish history, among them identity, assimilation, acculturation, nationalism, the relationship between Jewry and European culture, and relations between Jews and non-Jews, particularly between Poles and Jews. Mendelsohn notes that Gottlieb "was an ideal subject for a historian of modern Jewish Eastern Europe with an interest in the visual dimension of Jewish culture." Since the artist's death in 1879, Polish nationalists, Jewish integrationists, Jewish nationalists, and finally the Israeli Jewish establishment, have laid claims to his art. Yet Mendelsohn shows that the subjects Gottlieb chose to paint--particularly the historical subjects--demonstrate that Gottlieb was first and foremost an artist of Jewish univeralism.

Product Description: Peter Z. Malkin is an acclaimed artist and an Israeli intelligence legend. In 1960, Malkin was sent by the Head of the Mossad, to capture Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and bring him to Israel from Argentina to stand trial for war crimes...read more

Product Description: Around the year 1225, an illuminated Bible was made for the king of France. That work and a companion volume, the two earliest surviving manuscripts of the Bible moralisée, are remarkable in a number of ways: they are massive in scope; they combine text and image to an unprecedented extent; and their illustrations, almost unique among medieval images in depicting contemporary figures and situations, comprise a vehement visual polemic against the Jews...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Relations between Jewish Americans and African Americans have always had a unique, complex character. Both groups have long been considered outsiders in mainstream American society, sharing a history in which both their physical appearance and moral attributes were denigrated...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. The interaction of Jews with the visual arts takes place, as Cohen says, in a vast gallery of prints, portraits, books, synagogue architecture, ceremonial art, modern Jewish painting and sculpture, political broadsides, monuments, medals, and memorabilia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Much has been written about the fate of the Jews in the two thousand years of Christian history and about the portrayal of Judaism and the Jews by Christian theologians and people of the Church. But The Jews in Christian Art is one of the first works to consider art as a serious source of historical knowledge about the Jews and the ideological constructs developed around them by Christian thinkers and artists...read more

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Product Description: The Image of the Jew in Byzantine Art is the first study of the relationship between the attitude to the Jews in contemporary texts and their corresponding representation in Eastern art. The analysis initially explores the documented antisemitic attitude of the Eastern Church and its pervasive influence on the role of the Byzantine Emperors...read more