Reclaiming Biblical Heroines Portrayals of Judith, Esther and the Shulamite in Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Art

This book examines the iconography of Judith, Esther, and the Shulamite in the last decades of the nineteenth and the first two decades of the twentieth century in the works of the Polish-Jewish artists.

About the author

Monika Czekanowska-Gutman, Ph.D (2013), University of Warsaw, is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Art History at University of Warsaw, Poland. She has published several articles on Biblical iconography (both from the Old and the New Testament) in modern Jewish art.

Product details

• Authors: Monika Czekanowska-Gutman
• Publisher: Brill
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 10.11.2022
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism
• EAN: 9789004472655
• ISBN: 978-90-04-47265-5
• Pages: 326
• Dimensions (packing): 23.6 x 16 x 2.5 cm
• Weight (packing): 816 g
• Series: Brill's Jewish Studies > 75
• Subjects: ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious; Religion - Judaism; RELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings; Religiöse und zeremonielle Motive in der Kunst; 20. Jahrhundert (ca. 1900 bis ca. 1999)