Jewish Icons

Author : Ellen Frankel
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 1461631254
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Jewish Symbols written by Ellen Frankel and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish symbols reflect the interaction of word and image within Jewish culture. Jews have always studied, interpreted, and revered sacred texts; they have also adorned the settings and occasions of sacred acts. Calligraphy and ornamentation have transformed Hebrew letters into art; quotation, interpretation, legend, and wordplay have made ceremonial objects into narrative. This book represents just such a collaboration between art and language. Ellen Frankel and Betsy Platkin Teutsch, writer and artist, have brought their extensive knowledge and talents together to create The Encyclopedia of Jewish Symbols, the first reference guide of its kind, designed for use by educators, artists, rabbis, folklorists, feminists, Jewish and non-Jewish scholars, and lay readers.

Author : Richard I. Cohen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520917910
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Icons written by Richard I. Cohen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. In these images and objects that reflect, refract, and also shape daily experience, he finds new and illuminating insights into Jewish life in the modern period. Pointing to recent scholarship that overturns the stereotype of Jews as people of the text, unconcerned with the visual, Cohen shows how the coming of the modern period expanded the relationship of Jews to the visual realm far beyond the religious context. In one such manifestation, orthodox Jewry made icons of popular tabbis, creating images that helped to bridge the sacred and the secular. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the study and collecting of Jewish art became a legitimate and even passionate pursuit, and signaled the entry of Jews into the art world as painters, collectors, and dealers. Cohen's exploration of early Jewish exhibitions, museums, and museology opens a new window on the relationship of art to Jewish culture and society.

Author : Ellen Frankel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Jewish Symbols written by Ellen Frankel and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marc-Alain Ouaknin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760742358
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symbols of Judaism written by Marc-Alain Ouaknin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oren Baruch Stier
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813574048
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Icons written by Oren Baruch Stier and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Holocaust has bequeathed to contemporary society a cultural lexicon of intensely powerful symbols, a vocabulary of remembrance that we draw on to comprehend the otherwise incomprehensible horror of the Shoah. Engagingly written and illustrated with more than forty black-and-white images, Holocaust Icons probes the history and memory of four of these symbolic relics left in the Holocaust’s wake. Jewish studies scholar Oren Stier offers in this volume new insight into symbols and the symbol-making process, as he traces the lives and afterlives of certain remnants of the Holocaust and their ongoing impact. Stier focuses in particular on four icons: the railway cars that carried Jews to their deaths, symbolizing the mechanics of murder; the Arbeit Macht Frei (“work makes you free”) sign over the entrance to Auschwitz, pointing to the insidious logic of the camp system; the number six million that represents an approximation of the number of Jews killed as well as mass murder more generally; and the persona of Anne Frank, associated with victimization. Stier shows how and why these icons—an object, a phrase, a number, and a person—have come to stand in for the Holocaust: where they came from and how they have been used and reproduced; how they are presently at risk from a variety of threats such as commodification; and what the future holds for the memory of the Shoah. In illuminating these icons of the Holocaust, Stier offers valuable new perspective on one of the defining events of the twentieth century. He helps readers understand not only the Holocaust but also the profound nature of historical memory itself.

Author : Batya Brutin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110656914
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Icons in Art: The Warsaw Ghetto Boy and Anne Frank written by Batya Brutin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The photographs of the unknown Warsaw Ghetto little boy and the well-known Anne Frank became famous documents worldwide, representing the Holocaust. Many artists adopted them as a source of inspiration to express their feelings and ideas about Holocaust events in general and to deal with the fate of these two victims in particular. Moreover, the artists emphasized the uniqueness of both children, but at the same time used their image to convey social and political messages. By using images of these children, the artists both evoke our attention and sympathy and our anger against the Nazis’ crime of killing one and a half million Jewish children in the Holocaust. Because they represent different sexes, and different aspects - Western and Eastern Jewry - of Holocaust experience, artists used them in many contexts. This book will complete the lack of comprehensive research referring to the visual representations of these children in artworks.

Author : Ida Huberman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Symbols written by Ida Huberman and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rivka Ulmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110223929
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egyptian Cultural Icons in Midrash written by Rivka Ulmer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbinic midrash of late antiquity and the early medieval period visualized Egypt and presented Egyptian religious concepts and icons. Midrash is analyzed in a cross-cultural perspective utilizing insights from the discipline of Egyptology. Topics: the Greco-Roman Nile god, Isis, Serapis and other gods, festivals, mummy portraits, funeral customs, the Egyptian language, Pharaohs, Cleopatra, Alexandria, the divine eye. The hermeneutical role of Egyptian cultural icons in midrash is explored.

Author : Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough
Publisher : Bollingen
ISBN 13 : 9780691099675
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period written by Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough and published by Bollingen. This book was released on 1988 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes pagan ornaments that appeared on Jewish synagogues and ossuaries in the earliest centuries of the Common Era

Author : Abram Kanof
Publisher : Gefen Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Symbolic Art written by Abram Kanof and published by Gefen Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universal symbols from Jewish and Christian traditions.