Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Reading, Curating, and Teaching “Jewish” Photography: Theory and Practice
6. Chapter 1 What Is Jewish Photography and What Can We Learn from It? A Discussion with Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer 23
7. Chapter 2 Invisibly Jewish: Lotte Jacobi, Photography, and the Boundaries of Jewish Cultural Studies 51
8. Chapter 3 Photographs, Jews, and Nazis: The Politics of a Visual Archive, Historically and Today 69
9. Part II. Probing the Boundaries of Documentation: Jewish Photographic Memory
10. Chapter 4 Theodor Herzl Is Yael Bartana 97
11. Chapter 5 Paper Tombstones: Photographic Inventory and German Jewish Cemetery Books 119
12. Chapter 6 Displaced and Dreaming in Postwar Germany: The Lure of the Motorcycle and the Briefcase 145
13. Chapter 7 Reactivating Nineteenth-Century Jewish Portrait Albums in Institutions: Cultural Memory and Connected Histories 167
14. Part III. The Photographed Jewish Body: Agency, Race, Nation
15. Chapter 8 Zionism and the “Jewish Pathos Formula” in Helmar Lerski’s Type Photographs 197
16. Chapter 9 Photography and Racism in Israel: A Telegraphic Sketch of Three Processes 221
17. Part IV. Jewish Photography as a Commentary on Crisis and Violence
18. Chapter 10 Photography as Agency: Self-assurance through Urban Documentation in the Works of Roman Vishniac and Abraham Pisarek 247
19. Chapter 11 Capturing Blind Spots: The Photographed and the Not-to-Be-Photographed in Nazi Germany 267
20. Chapter 12 The Afterlife of the Barefoot Rabbi and the Making of an Iconic Holocaust Photograph 287
21. Part V. The Jewish Gaze on the Other “Others”: Migration, Colonialism, Minorities
22. Chapter 13 Moving Views: Global Routes of Jewish Refuge as Spaces of Early Humanitarian Seeing 313
23. Chapter 14 Politics and Pictures: Jewish American Photographers and Black Americans, 1938–1964 335
24. Chapter 15 Beyond Black and White: Jews, African Americans, and Africa in Photography, Film, and Television 361
25. Contributing Authors 385
26. Index 391