The wide-ranging portrayal of modern Jewishness in artistic
terms invites scrutiny into the relationship between creativity and
the formation of Jewish identity and into the complex issue of what
makes a work of art uniquely Jewish. Whether it is the provenance
of the artist, as in the case of popular Israeli singer Zehava Ben,
the intention of the iconography, as in Ben Shahn's antifascist
paintings, or the utopian ideals of the Jewish Palestine Pavilion
at the 1939 New York World's Fair, clearly no single formula for
defining Jewish art in the diaspora will suffice."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.
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