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title	:	Jewish Icons : Art and Society in Modern Europe
author	:	Cohen, Richard I.
publisher	:	University of California Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0520205456
print isbn13	:	9780520205451
ebook isbn13	:	9780585054964
language	:	English
subject	Jews in art, Jews--Identity, Jews--Intellectual life, Jewish art and symbolism, Art and society.
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	N7415.C556 1998eb
ddc	:	704.03/924/00903
subject	:	Jews in art, Jews--Identity, Jews--Intellectual life, Jewish art and symbolism, Art and society.

Page iii Jewish Icons Art and Society in Modern Europe Richard I. Cohen UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS BERKELEY LOS ANGELES LONDON

Page iv Disclaimer: This book contains characters with diacritics. When the characters can be represented using the ISO 8859-1 character set ( http://www.w3.org/TR/images/latin1.gif ), netLibrary will represent them as they appear in the original text, and most computers will be able to show the full characters correctly. In order to keep the text searchable and readable on most computers, characters with diacritics that are not part of the ISO 8859-1 list will be represented without their diacritical marks. Disclaimer: Some images in the original hard copy book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook. University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England 1998 by The Regents of the University of California The following chapters are extensively revised versions of materials published elsewhere: chapters 1 and 3: Zion, A Quarterly for Research in Jewish History [Journal of the Historical Society of Israel; in Hebrew], 57 (1992):275340, and 58 (1993):40752; chapter 4: Jonathan Frankel and Steven J. Zipperstein, eds., Assimilation and Community: The Jews in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992); and chapter 5: Jack Wertheimer, ed., The Uses of Tradition: Jewish Community in the Modern Era (New York: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1992). These revised versions are reprinted here by permission of the publishers. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cohen, Richard I. Jewish icons: art and society in modern Europe / Richard I. Cohen. p. cm. Includes bibliographic references and index. ISBN 0-520-20545-6 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Jews in art. 2. JewsIdentity. 3. JewsIntellectual life. 4. Jewish art and symbolism. 5. Art and society. I. Title. N7415.C556 1998 704.03'924'00903dc21 96-45375 CIP Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standards for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSIZ39.48-1984.

Page v To Shlomith with love She opens her mouth with wisdom and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. Proverbs31:26

Page vii Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. The Visual Image of the Jew and Judaism 10 2. Ceremonial Art, Patronage, and Taste 68 3. The Rabbi as Icon 114 4. Nostalgia and "The Return to the Ghetto" 154 5. Self-Exposure, Self-Image, and Memory 186 6. Images of Jewish Fate 220 Epilogue 256 Notes 261 Bibliography 319 Index 349

Page ix Illustrations 1. Thomas Coryate, Coryats Crudities, London, 1611 13

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