The Jewish Museum - History and Memory, Identity and Art from Vienna to the Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem

In The Jewish Museum: History and Memory, Identity and Art from Vienna to the Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem Natalia Berger traces the history of the Jewish museum in its various manifestations in Central Europe, notably in Vienna, Prague and Budapest, up to the establishment of the Bezalel National Museum in Jerusalem. Accordingly, the book scrutinizes collections and exhibitions and broadens our understanding of the different ways that Jewish individuals and communities sought to map their history, culture and art. It is the comparative method that sheds light on each of the museums, and on the processes that initiated the transition from collection and research to assembling a type of collection that would serve to inspire new art.

About the author

Natalia Berger, Ph.D.(2006), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is an Independent Curator. She has published several books on different aspects of Diaspora Jewry, including Where Cultures Meet (Beth Hatefutsoth, MOD Publishing House, 1990) and Jews and Medicine, (Beth Hatefutsoth, 1995).

Product details

• Authors: Natalia Berger
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.10.2017
• EAN: 9789004353879
• ISBN: 978-90-04-35387-9
• No. of pages: 604
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 43 mm
• Weight: 972 g
• Series: Jewish Identities in a Changin
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history