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Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough
Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York
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eBook - PDF
Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough
Ritual Objects and Avant-Garde Art at the Jewish Museum of New York
About this book
Displays of Jewish ritual objects in public, non-Jewish settings by Jews are a comparatively recent phenomenon. So too is the establishment of Jewish museums. This volume explores the origins of the Jewish Museum of New York and its evolution from collecting and displaying Jewish ritual objects, to Jewish art, to exhibiting avant-garde art devoid of Jewish content, created by non-Jews. Established within a rabbinic seminary, the museum's formation and development reflect changes in Jewish society over the twentieth century as it grappled with choices between religion and secularism, particularism and universalism, and ethnic pride and assimilation.
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Table of contents
- Too Jewish or Not Jewish Enough
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Prologue
- Chapter 1 — Entering the Contact Zone
- Chapter 2 — Seeding a Seminary Museum
- Chapter — A New Venue, a New Purpose
- Chapter 4 — Creating a Way and Space for Avant-Garde Art
- Chapter 5 — The Avant-Garde or Judaica?
- Chapter 6 — Secular Paths through the Avant-Garde, the Lower East Side, and Ancient Israel
- Chapter 7 — The Jewish Jewish Museum
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Selected Bibliography
- Index