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The Jewish Museum
History and Memory, Identity and Art from Vienna to the Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem
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Natalia Berger
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2018
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In The Jewish Museum: History and Memory, Identity and Art from Vienna to the Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem Natalia Berger traces the history of the Jewish museum in its various manifestations in Central Europe, notably in Vienna, Prague and Budapest, up to the establishment of the Bezalel National Museum in Jerusalem. Accordingly, the book scrutinizes collections and exhibitions and broadens our understanding of the different ways that Jewish individuals and communities sought to map their history, culture and art. It is the comparative method that sheds light on each of the museums, and on the processes that initiated the transition from collection and research to assembling a type of collection that would serve to inspire new art.
Author / Editor information
Natalia Berger, Ph.D.(2006), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is an Independent Curator. She has published several books on different aspects of Diaspora Jewry, including Where Cultures Meet (Beth Hatefutsoth, MOD Publishing House, 1990) and Jews and Medicine, (Beth Hatefutsoth, 1995).
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
October 2, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9789004353886
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
586
eBook ISBN:
9789004353886
Keywords for this book
Jewish history; Jewish culture; Jewish art; Museology; anti-Semitism; Zionism; The Strauss Collection; Anglo-Jewish Exhibition; Salomon Hugo Lieben; Hana Volavková; Boris Schatz; Mordechai Narkiss
Audience(s) for this book
All interested in Jewish history, culture and art, and anyone concerned with the history of museums in general and Jewish museums in particular.
