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Approaching Religion, 2016 Contemporary commentators are well aware that the Jewish tradition is not an aniconic one. Far from suppressing art, the Second Commandment produces it.
Melissa Raphael
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Of Hitler And Camille Pissarro: Jurisdiction In Nazi Art Expropriation Cases Under The Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act [PDF]
, 2011 In November 1938, Walter Westfield, a renowned Jewish art dealer in Germany, was arrested, beaten, and imprisoned by the Nazis for an alleged violation of currency exchange laws.1 The true purpose of the arrest was to seize Westfield’s art collection for
Zarrini, Elnaz
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Studia Judaica, 2023 “And She Stretched Him on a Pin Like a Butterfly...”: Revolutionary Jewish Women in Polish Antisemitic Prose of the First Half of the Twentieth Century After the revolution of 1905, revolutionary ...
Małgorzata Domagalska
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Buildings, 2022 The Jewish architectural heritage is and will remain an integral part of the local cultural heritage, but part of it still needs to be discovered, rehabilitated, maintained and valued.
Vasile Grama +10 more
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'Confounding closed systems': transforming the boundaries of jewish identity in Rebecca Goldstein's novel mazel [PDF]
, 2010 In contemporary Jewish American fiction, the themes of immigration and resettlement take on a renewed significance. In various short stories and novels, a threefold composition – (prewar) life in Europe, the transatlantic journey and settlement in ...
Buelens, Gert, Lievens, Bart
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“Tikkun Olam”: Helène Aylon’s ecofeminist ritual art
Journal of Aesthetics & CultureHelène Aylon (1931–2020) established herself in the 1980s as a prominent ecofeminist artist by developing large-scale participatory ritual artworks. The feminist and the activist aspects of her work have been acknowledged and discussed extensively, but ...
David Sperber
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A goldene medine? A Dialogue in Many Voices on Canadian Jewish Studies and Poland [PDF]
, 2015 This paper is an account of the conference titled Kanade, di goldene medine? Perspectives on Canadian-Jewish Literature and Culture / Perspectives sur la littérature et la culture juives canadiennes, which took place in Łódź in April, 2014 as a result of
Ravvin, Norman
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Zigzag: Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin
ImagesIn The Meaning of Asymmetry in Jewish Art, Avigdor Poseq notes a historical tendency in Jewish art to depict Temple-related ritual objects asymmetrically, symbolizing their dislocation after the Temple’s destruction and the continued wait for the ...
Artur Kamczycki
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Arts, 2022 The Bedouin and Jewish inhabitants of the southern Israeli desert region share a common desert vista. However, they are diverse, multicultural communities who suffer inequity in access to valuable resources such as water.
Irit Carmon Popper
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„Exotische Kunst“ – Undurchsichtige Geschäfte 1934-1945
TransferDue to innovative exhibition concepts in Budapest, Hagen and Prague, German art dealers presented since 1913 non-European art from Africa and Oceania in a dialogue with modern art and they benefited from a close network to Paris dealers.
Nils Fiebig
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