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The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times
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Description
The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times is the first work to analyze modern Jewry's engagement with the arts as a whole, including music, theater, dance, film, museums, architecture, painting, sculpture, and more. Working with a broad conception of what counts as art, the book asks the following questions: What roles have commerce and politics played in shaping Jewish artistic agendas? Who determines the Jewishness of art and for what purposes? What role has aesthetics played in reshaping religious traditions and rituals?
This richly illustrated volume illuminates how the arts have helped Jews confront the various challenges of modernity, including cultural adaptation and self-preservation, economic diversification, and ritual transformation. There truly is an art to being Jewish in the modern world-or, alternatively, an art to being modern in the Jewish world-and this collection fully captures its range, diversity, and historical significance.
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Edition:
- illustrated
- Number of Pages:
- 464
- Release Date:
- 2008-08-22
- Publication Date:
- 2008-08-27
- Publisher:
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Languages:
- Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 0812220471
- ISBN13:
- 9780812220476
- Weight:
- 794 g
- Height:
- 155 cm
- Width:
- 234 cm
- Thickness:
- 30 cm
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