Mendelssohn to Mendelsohn: Visual Case Studies of Jewish Life in Berlin (Studies in German Jewish History) - Softcover
This book takes a fresh look at the history of the Jews in Berlin using signficant examples of the rich visual legacy of the period. It begins by examining the visual environment of the Enlightenment philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86) and his community whose lives were regulated by feudal conditions in the waning days of a mercantilist regime. It also looks at the Moorish Revival synagogue on the Oranienburgerstrasse inaugurated in 1866 that reflects the status and the evolving sense of identity of the sponsoring community at that moment in the nineteenth-century pursuit of emancipation and the incremental attainment of civil rights. The book ends with the Weimar Republic where the inventive modernist architect Erich Mendelsohn contributed to the vital building program of the Neue Sachlichkeit. The visual studies approach adopted here foregrounds the articulation of the dominant culture’s visual language by a dynamic minority expressing its place within the process of German nation building.
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The Author: Cyril Reade is Assistant Professor of Art History at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He completed a Ph.D. in the Visual and Cultural Studies program of the Art and Art History Department of the University of Rochester in 2003. He has published numerous reviews and catalogue essays on contemporary artists and is himself a practicing artist.
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- PublisherPeter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 3039105310
- ISBN 13 9783039105311
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages350
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