Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe

by Richard I. Cohen

With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. The interaction of Jews with the visual arts takes place, as Cohen says, in a vast gallery of prints, portraits, books, synagogue architecture, ceremonial art, modern Jewish painting and sculpture, political broadsides, monuments, medals, and memorabilia. Pointing to recent scholarship that overturns...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520205456
• ISBN13: 9780520205451
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.3" x 10.3"