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Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of Illustrations 10 Preface 12 Introduction 14 I. Culture, Commerce, and Class 34 1. Theater as Educational Institution: Jewish Immigrant Intellectuals and Yiddish Theater Reform 36 2. Film and Vaudeville on New York’s Lower East Side 55 3. Of Maestros and Minstrels: American Jewish Composers between Black Vernacular and European Art Music 70 II. Siting the Jewish Tomorrow 92 4. May Day, Tractors, and Piglets: Yiddish Songs for Little Communists 96 5. Performing the State: The Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair, 1939/40 111 6. Was There Anything Particularly Jewish about ‘‘The First Hebrew City’’? 129 7. Re-Routing Roots: Zehava Ben’s Journey between Shuk and Suk 141 III. Lost in Place 158 8. The ‘‘Wandering Jew’’ from Medieval Legend to Modern Metaphor 160 9. Diasporic Values in Contemporary Art: Kitaj, Katchor, Frenkel 189 IV. Portraits of the Artist as Jew 206 10. Modern? American? Jew? Museums and Exhibitions of Ben Shahn’s Late Paintings 210 11. Max Liebermann and the Amsterdam Jewish Quarter 221 12. Rome and Jerusalem: The Figure of Jesus in the Creation of Mark Antokol’skii 241 V. In Search of a Usable Aesthetic

Author

BARBARA KIRSHENBLATT-GIMBLETT AND JONATHAN KARP

Language

EN