Visual Judaism [reader]
Author: Lee I. Levine
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 573
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Author: Lee I. Levine
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 573
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lee I. Levine
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9780300100891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys Jewish visual culture in the Late Roman and Byzantine eras, including expression via figural images, biblical scenes and religious symbols.
Author: Beth Lieberman
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9780881233032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Melissa Raphael
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2009-02-19
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1441190562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe widespread assumption that Jewish religious tradition is mediated through words, not pictures, has left Jewish art with no significant role to play in Jewish theology and ethics. Judaism and the Visual Image argues for a Jewish theology of image that, among other things, helps us re-read the creation story in Genesis 1 and to question why images of Jewish women as religious subjects appear to be doubly suppressed by the Second Commandment, when images of observant male Jews have become legitimate, even iconic, representations of Jewish holiness. Raphael further suggests that 'devout beholding' of images of the Holocaust is a corrective to post-Holocaust theologies of divine absence from suffering that are infused by a sub-theological aesthetic of the sublime. Raphael concludes by proposing that the relationship between God and Israel composes itself into a unitary dance or moving image by which each generation participates in a processive revelation that is itself the ultimate work of Jewish art.
Author: Geoffrey Wigoder
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780297995975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carol Zemel
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2015-06-29
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0253015421
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Thanks to Carol Zemel’s provocative study, we are invited to look at Jewish art in new ways . . . provides a deeper understanding of the ordeal of diaspora.” —Studies in American Jewish Literature Jewish art and visual culture—art made by Jews about Jews—in modern diasporic settings is the subject of Looking Jewish. Carol Zemel focuses on particular artists and cultural figures in interwar Eastern Europe and postwar America who blended Jewishness and mainstream modernism to create a diasporic art, one that transcends dominant national traditions. She begins with a painting by Ken Aptekar entitled Albert: Used to Be Abraham, a double portrait of a man, which serves to illustrate Zemel’s conception of the doubleness of Jewish diasporic art. She considers two interwar photographers, Alter Kacyzne and Moshe Vorobeichic; images by the Polish writer Bruno Schulz; the pre- and postwar photographs of Roman Vishniac; the figure of the Jewish mother in postwar popular culture (Molly Goldberg); and works by R. B. Kitaj, Ben Katchor, and Vera Frenkel that explore Jewish identity in a postmodern environment.
Author: Rabbi Dana Evan Kaplan, PhD
Publisher: CCAR Press
Published: 2017-11-28
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 0881233145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReform Judaism is constantly evolving as we continue to seek a faith that is in harmony with our beliefs and experiences. This volume offers readers a thought-provoking collection of essays by rabbis, cantors, and other scholars who differ, sometimes passionately, over religious practice, experience, and belief. Its goal is to situate Judaism in a contemporary context, and it is uniquely suited for community discussion as well as study groups.
Author: Melissa Raphael
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780191683602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of Rudolf Otto's 20th-century concept of holiness. This volume analyzes the scholarly context that shaped Otto's idea of holiness, and discusses the relation of the numinous and the holy to the divine personality, morality, religious experience and emancipatory theology.
Author: Samantha Baskind
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780271059839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the works of five major American Jewish artists: Jack Levine, George Segal, Audrey Flack, Larry Rivers, and R. B. Kitaj. Focuses on the use of imagery influenced by the Bible.
Author: Michael Terry
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-02
Total Pages: 745
ISBN-13: 1135941505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Reader's Guide to Judaism is a survey of English-language translations of the most important primary texts in the Jewish tradition. The field is assessed in some 470 essays discussing individuals (Martin Buber, Gluckel of Hameln), literature (Genesis, Ladino Literature), thought and beliefs (Holiness, Bioethics), practice (Dietary Laws, Passover), history (Venice, Baghdadi Jews of India), and arts and material culture (Synagogue Architecture, Costume). The emphasis is on Judaism, rather than on Jewish studies more broadly.