The art of being Jewish in modern times /
edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jonathan Karp.
- xii, 449 p. : ill., map, music ; 25 cm.
- Jewish culture and contexts .
Theater as educational institution : Jewish immigrant intellectuals and Yiddish theater reform / Film and vaudeville on New York's Lower East Side / Of maestros and minstrels : American Jewish composers between Black vernacular and European art music / May Day, tractors, and piglets : Yiddish songs for little communists / Performing the state : the Jewish Palestine pavilion at the New York World's Fair, 1939/40 / Was there anything particularly Jewish about "the first Hebrew city"? / Re-routing roots : Zehava Ben's journey between shuk and suk / The "wandering Jew" from medieval legend to modern metaphor / Diasporic values in contemporary art : Kitaj, Katchor, Frenkel / Modern? American? Jew? museums and exhibitions of Ben Shahn's late paintings / Max Liebermann and the Amsterdam Jewish quarter / Rome and Jerusalem : the figure of Jesus in the creation of Mark Antokol'skii / A modern mitzvah-space-aesthecic : the philosophy of Franz Rosenzwieg / Reestablising a "Jewish spirit" in American synagogue music : the music of A.W. Binder / The evolution of Philadelphia's Russian sher medley / Framing Nazi art loot / Joseph Lewitan and the Nazification of dance in Germany / History, memory, and moral judgment in documentary film : on Marcel Ophul's Hotel terminus: the life and times of Klaus Barbie / Nina Warnke -- Judith Thissen -- Jonathan Karp -- Anna Shternshis -- Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Anat Helman -- Amy Horowitz -- Richard I. Cohen -- Carol Zemel -- Diana L. Linden -- Walter Cahn -- Olga Litvak -- Zachary Braiterman -- Mark Kligman -- Hankus Netsky -- Charles Dellheim -- Marion Kant -- Susan Rubin Suleiman.