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Photography and Jewish History - Five Twentieth-Century Cases (Hardcover)
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Photography and Jewish History - Five Twentieth-Century Cases (Hardcover)
Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
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It is a sign of the accepted evidentiary status of photographs that
historians regularly append them to their accounts, Amos
Morris-Reich observes. Very often, however, these photographs are
treated as mere illustrations, simple documentations of the events
that transpired. Scholars of photography, on the other hand, tend
to prioritize the photographs themselves, relegating the historical
contexts to the background. For Morris-Reich, however, photography
exists within reality; it partakes in and is very much a component
of the history it records. Morris-Reich examines how photography
affects categories of history and experience, how it is influenced
by them, and the ways in which our understanding of the
relationship between history and photography can be theorized and
reoriented. Morris-Reich here turns to five twentieth-century cases
in which photography and Jewish history intersect: Albert Kahn's
utopian attempt to establish a photographic archive in Paris in
order to advance world peace; the spectacular failed project of
Helmar Lerski, the most prominent photographer in British Mandate
Jewish Palestine; photography in the long career of Eugen Fischer,
a Nazi professor of genetics; the street photography of Robert
Frank; and the first attempt to introduce photography into the
study of Russian Jewry prior to World War I, as seen from the
post-Holocaust perspective of the early twenty-first century.
Illustrated with nearly 100 images, Photography and Jewish History
moves beyond a focus on Jewish photographers or the photographic
representation of Jews or Jewish visibility to plumb the deeper and
more significant registers of twentieth-century Jewish political
history.
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