Thomas F. Glick

Vivian B. Mann

Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)

Jerrilynn Denise Dodds

Looks at the golden age produced by the mingling of the three cultures in medieval Spain and shows examples of arts and crafts

Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain

Convivencia

Jewish Ceremonial Objects for Synagogue and Home. An Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Commenorating the American Jewish Tercentenary; Arranged by the Jewish Museum of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, January 20, 1955 to February 27, 1955

Art of the Hebrew Tradition

Kenneth E. Silver

Romy Golan

Jewish Artists in Paris, 1905-1945

The Circle of Montparnasse

Moshe Idel

Daniel J. Schroeter

Ami Bouganim

Explores the conundrum of Jewish Moroccan identity, from the earliest times to the present day.

Jews and Art in a Muslim Land

Morocco

Günter Grass

Sheila Schwartz

Joseph Gutmann

The Jewish Museum, New York

Danzig 1939, Treasures of a Destroyed Community

Catherine Evans

Mason Klein

Columbus Museum of Art

Explores the blend of aesthetics and social activism at the heart of the Photo League, tracing the group's liberal idealism to the worker-photography movement in Europe while citing the roles of key contributors and the League's influence on modern photography.

New York's Photo League, 1936-1951

The Radical Camera

Ira Rezak

Yaʻaḳov Meshorer

The Samuel and Daniel M. Friedenberg Collection of Coins and Medals

Coins Reveal

Jews arrived in the Republic of Rome some time in the second or first century B.C.E. They soon formed their own community which absorbed Roman cultural forms but was able to maintain its identity and integrity. For more than twenty centuries, the Italian peninsula has been home to the heirs of this ancient minority community, whose culture is a blend of traditional Jewish content with Roman, then Italian cultural forms. Gardens and Ghettos: The Art of Jewish Life in Italy is the title of an exhibition curated by Vivian B. Mann and Emily Braun for The Jewish Museum, New York (September 1989-January 1990), an exhibition that explores the extraordinarily rich artistic legacy of Italian Jewry. This book, like the exhibition itself, focuses on four time periods: the Empire, the Era of the City States (1300-1550), the Era of the Ghettos (1550-1750), and the period since the Risorgimento. Artifacts and architecture are generously represented along with fine arts. Essays by prominent scholars introduce us to the historical and cultural context of a splendid array of works, from ancient Roman architectural fragments and gold glass to illuminated manuscripts and printed books from the Renaissance, baroque ceremonial textiles and silver, and paintings, graphics, and sculpture of the modern era. The many illustrations illuminate the art and life of a minority community in dynamic tension with dominant society and show the vibrant, ongoing contribution by Jews to the arts of Italy. Jews arrived in the Republic of Rome some time in the second or first century B.C.E. They soon formed their own community which absorbed Roman cultural forms but was able to maintain its identity and integrity. For more than twenty centuries, the Italian peninsula has been home to the heirs of this ancient minority community, whose culture is a blend of traditional Jewish content with Roman, then Italian cultural forms. Gardens and Ghettos: The Art of Jewish Life in Italy is the title of an exhibition curated by Vivian B. Mann and Emily Braun for The Jewish Museum, New York (September 1989-January 1990), an exhibition that explores the extraordinarily rich artistic legacy of Italian Jewry. This book, like the exhibition itself, focuses on four time periods: the Empire, the Era of the City States (1300-1550), the Era of the Ghettos (1550-1750), and the period since the Risorgimento. Artifacts and architecture are generously represented along with fine arts. Essays by prominent scholars introduce us to the historical and cultural context of a splendid array of works, from ancient Roman architectural fragments and gold glass to illuminated manuscripts and printed books from the Renaissance, baroque ceremonial textiles and silver, and paintings, graphics, and sculpture of the modern era. The many illustrations illuminate the art and life of a minority community in dynamic tension with dominant society and show the vibrant, ongoing contribution by Jews to the arts of Italy.

The Art of Jewish Life in Italy

Gardens and Ghettos

Arthur C. Danto

Harriet F. Senie

Michael Stanislawski

Louise Nevelson

Gabriel de Guzman

Presents a catalog of an exhibition showcasing the works of the American sculptor and artist.

Constructing a Legend

The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson

N. Y.) Jewish Museum (New York

Ziva Amishai-Maisels

Every so often, the organizers of an art exhibition attempt to address head-on issues of interest in the world of contemporary politics. Russian Jewish Artists in a Century of Change, 1890-1990 represents such an undertaking. With the break-up of the Soviet Union, countries and cultures under Soviet control suddenly opened up to the West. In the past few years, as information has begun to flow more freely, art historians have found themselves having to re-examine their subjects and concerns in the light of newly accessible information. Nowhere is this situation more apparent than in the study of Jewish artists in Russia. Until recently, books and catalogues written in the West have concentrated on work done by Russian Jewish artists in exile. Now, for the first time, an international group of scholars has been assembled to address the last hundred years of art produced by Jews living in Russia itself. Given the present state of research, Russian Jewish Artists in a Century of Change, 1890-1990 - which documents an exhibition organized by The Jewish Museum, New York - purposely proposes more questions than it answers. A lucid historical overview by historian Michael Stanislawski followed by seven thought-provoking essays by an international roster of art historians who address, in chronological sequence, the difficult, frequently uplifting history of Jewish art in Russia in the modern period.

Russian Jewish Artists in a Century of Change, 1890-1990

Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me

Norman L. Kleeblatt

Chaim Soutine

Born near Minsk in White Russia, the painter Chaim Soutine (1894-1943) created his major works in France between the two World Wars. He is identified with the School of Paris, the group of artists, many of them foreign-born and Jewish, who lived and worked in the French capital between the wars. Known as a "painter's painter", Soutine worked with unreserved gesture and emotion, using exuberant color, thickly applied paint, and sweeping brushwork. Chaim Soutine is a comprehensive, ground-breaking book that rediscovers this important artist, providing an overview of his life, work, and aesthetic influence, as well as his critical reception. Essays by leading scholars and curators assess Soutine's art from new vantage points, including the changing critical reception of his work in Paris between the wars, as well as in the US and France in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. The essays also examine the influence of Soutine's Jewish and French immigrant background on his work and reception, and introduce us to his important patrons and major collectors. These included Albert Barnes, the famous Philadelphia collector, who discovered Soutine's work in 1922-23 and purchased 52 of his paintings. The book features presentations and information never published before, including a photo-essay composed of rare photographs of the artist, newly discovered correspondence between Soutine and the French art historian Elie Faure, and the first radiographic analysis of the artist's work, which brings to light new evidence about Soutine's use of materials and his process of painting.

The Paintings of Chaim Soutine

An Expressionist in Paris

Examines the lives and works of Jewish artists such as Sonia Delaunay, Amedeo Modigliani and Marc Chagall

Emily Braun

Emily D. Bilski

An insightful look at the history of Jewish women's salons and their influence on art, music, literature, and politics.

The Power of Conversation

Jewish Women and Their Salons

Magdalena Dabrowski

Scala Publishers

Joan Rosenbaum

The intellectual dialogue and friendship between two key modernist artists - the painter Wassily Kandinsky and the composer Arnold Schoenberg - forms the focal point of this fascinating survey, charting the early 20th century parallel movements towards abstraction in art and atonality in music.

Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider

Rosalyn Deutsche

Elena Volpato

Martha Rosler

The politically engaged work of Martha Rosler is fascinating and provocative; this wide-ranging survey brings timely insights at a moment of resurgence for political activism and feminism.

Irrespective

Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)

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