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In 1896, the National Gallery in Berlin was the first museum in a European metropolis – even before Paris – to purchase works by French impressionists.
Johanna Heinen
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Finance, Taxes and Provenance: A German Museum Acquisition of Chinese Antiquities in 1935
Research for this article was initially prompted by a restitution claim for several early Chinese objects, which had been acquired by the Bavarian State Ethnological Museum, now Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich, at two sales in the Berlin auction house ...
Ilse von zur Mühlen
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Les migrations au musée ! Sciences sociales et muséographie sont-elles complémentaires ?
Museums related to Migrations or Diasporas, in a context of rising xenophobia, reinforce the idea how migrations are full part of National Histories. As part of this project of anniversary volume of REMI, we thought it would be interesting to analyze the
Yann Scioldo-Zürcher
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Encountering empty architecture: Libeskind’s Jewish Museum Berlin [PDF]
Claire Farago and Donald Preziosi once pointed out how recent art museums by architect Daniel Libeskind allow for altered relationships between exhibitions and visitors.
Henrik Reeh
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Zigzag: Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin
In 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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Another Fateful Triangle: Jews, Muslims, Europe
This paper argues that Jews–Muslims–Europe is a fateful triangle, in which identities and identifications both inform and form one another. It draws on interview-based research at the Jewish Museum Berlin to showcase how Jewish and Muslim positionalities
Elisabeth Jane Becker
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Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel
ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone
Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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