Jews as “Culture Brokers” (original) (raw)

The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times

2007

Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface —David Ruderman Introduction —Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jonathan Karp I. CULTURE, COMMERCE, AND CLASS 1. Theater as Educational Institution: Jewish Immigrant Intellectuals and Yiddish Theater Reform —Nina Warnke 2. Film and Vaudeville on New York's Lower East Side —Judith Thissen 3. Of Maestros and Minstrels: American Jewish Composers between Black Vernacular and European Art Music —Jonathan Karp II. SITING THE JEWISH TOMORROW 4. May Day, Tractors, and Piglets: Yiddish Songs for Little Communists —Anna Shternshis 5. Performing the State: The Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, 1939/40 —Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 6. Was There Anything Particularly Jewish about "The First Hebrew City"? —Anat Helman 7. Re-Routing Roots: Zehava Ben's Journey between Shuk and Suk —Amy Horowitz III. LOST IN PLACE 8. The "Wandering Jew" from Medieval Legend to Modern Metaphor —Richard I. Cohen 9. Diasporic Values in Contemporary Art: Kitaj, Katchor, Frenkel —Carol Zemel IV. PORTRAITS OF THE ARTIST AS JEW 10. Modern? American? Jew? Museums and Exhibitions of Ben Shahn's Late Paintings —Diana L. Linden 11. Max Liebermann and the Amsterdam Jewish Quarter —Walter Cahn 12. Rome and Jerusalem: The Figure of Jesus in the Creation of Mark Antokol'skii —Olga Litvak V. IN SEARCH OF A USABLE AESTHETIC 13. A Modern Mitzvah-Space-Aesthetic: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig —Zachary Braiterman 14. Reestablishing a "Jewish Spirit" in American Synagogue Music: The Music of A. W. Binder —Mark Kligman 15. The Evolution of Philadelphia's Russian Sher Medley —Hankus Netsky VI. HOTEL TERMINUS 16. Framing Nazi Art Loot —Charles Dellheim 17. Joseph Lewitan and the Nazification of Dance in Germany —Marion Kant 18. History, Memory, and Moral Judgment in Documentary Film: On Marcel Ophuls's Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie —Susan Rubin Suleiman Notes Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments