THE JEWISH DIMENSION IN MODERN ART

Syllabus THE JEWISH DIMENSION IN MODERN ART - 5566 Last update 02-04-2014 HU Credits: 4 Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor) Responsible Department: Art History Academic year: 2 Semester: 2nd Semester Teaching Languages: Hebrew Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: Dr Mirjam Rajner Coordinator Email: rajnerm@gmail.com Coordinator Office Hours: Spring Semester, Thurs. 10:30-11:30 Teaching Staff: Dr. Mirjam Rajner page 1 / 8

Course/Module description: The course will examine the Jewish presence in modern art, in Europe from the period of Emancipation until the Holocaust. The central topics that will be discussed will deal with the questions of identity; the image of a Jew as "the Other"; Orientalism; migration; the cultural and national renaissance; women artists; collecting and Jewish museums; the art of the war, Revolution and the Holocaust. Course/Module aims: The art works created by the artists of Jewish origin will be examined against the major art movements such as Romanticism and Realism, Impressionism, Symbolism, Primitivism, Expressionism and the Avant-Garde. Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: The students will learn to identify processes typical for creation and analysis of art created by a minority group. Attendance requirements(%): 90% Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: The lectures will be accompanied by Power Point presentations. Course/Module Content: 1. To be a Jew at home and a man outside - education and visual arts 2. Universal aspiration - "a non-jewish Jew" 3. Jews and their fate as an topic in Polish art 4. Orientalism and the the Jewish artist as "the Other" 5. Plight of Jews in Eastern Europe in the mirror of art 6. The image of the Wandering Jew 7. Jewish cultural renaissance - from folklore to modernism 8. Jewish women artists page 2 / 8

9. Salons, collectors, gallery owners, art dealers and gallery owners 10. Expressionism and anxiety 11. Age of Revolution and the avant-garde 12. The emigration, Holocaust and its aftermath in art Required Reading: Baskind, Samantha and Larry Silver, Jewish Art: A Modern History, London, 2011. Bland, Kalman, P., "Modern Denials and Affirmations of Jewish Art: Germanophone Origins and Themes," in his The Artless Jew: Medieval and Modern Affirmations and Denials of the Visual, Princeton, 2000, 13-36. Deutscher, Isaac, The Non-Jewish Jew and Other Essays, London: Oxford University, pp. 25-41. Davidson Kalmar, Ivan, "Moorish Style: Orientalism, the Jews and Synagogue Architecture," Jewish Social Studies, Vol. 7, no. 3, Spring/Summer 2001, pp. 68-100. Rosenfeld, Gavriel D. "Defining 'Jewish Art' in Ost und West, 1901-1908, A Study in the Nationalization of Jewish Culture," Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, 1994, vol. 39 (1), 83-110. Additional Reading Material: רשימה ביבליוגרפית: כללי 1. Baigell, Mathew and Milly Heyd, (eds.), Complex Identities: Jewish Consciousness and Modern Art, New Brunswick, 2001. 2. Baskind, Samantha and Larry Silver, Jewish Art: A Modern History, London, 2011. 3. Bland, Kalman, P., "Modern Denials and Affirmations of Jewish Art: Germanophone Origins and Themes," in his The Artless Jew: Medieval and Modern Affirmations and Denials of the Visual, Princeton, 2000, 13-36. 4. Cohen, R. I., Jewish Icons, Art and Society in Modern Europe, Berkley, 1998. 5. Kampf, A. Jewish Experience in the Art of the Twentieth Century, South Hadley, page 3 / 8

1984. 6. Mendelsohn, Ezra and Richard I. Cohen, (eds.), Art and its Uses: the Visual Image and Modern Jewish Society, New York, 1990. 7. Olin, Margaret, The Nation without Art, Examining Modern Discourses on Jewish Art, Lincoln, 2001. 8. Rosenfeld, Gavriel D. "Defining 'Jewish Art' in Ost und West, 1901-1908, A Study in the Nationalization of Jewish Culture," Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, 1994, vol. 39 (1), 83-110. 9. Schmidt, Gilia Gerda, The Art and the Artists of the 5th Zionist Congress, 1901, New York 2003. 10. Sed-Rajna, Gabrielle, (ed.), Jewish Art, New York, 1997. 11. Soussloff, Catherine, M., (ed.), Jewish Identity in Modern Art History, Berkley, 1999. 12. Tumarkin Goodman, S., (ed.) The Emergance of Jewish Artist in Nineteenth- Century Europe,The Jewish Museum, New York, November 18, 2001-March 17, 2002. 13. Van Voolen, Edward, My Grandparents, My Parents and I: Jewish Art and Culture, Munich, 2006. רומנטיציזם בגרמניה ותקופת ההשכלה היהודית( מוריץ אופנהיים) 14. מוריץ אופנהיים, הצייר היהודי הראשון, מוזאון ישראל, ירושלים, סתיו 1983. 15. Heuberger, Georg and Anton Marek, (eds.), Moritz Daniel Oppenheim: Jewish Identity in 19th Century Art, exh. cat., Jewish Museum in Frankfurt, Dec 16, 1999 April 2, 2000. רומנטיציזם, ריאליזם ואסכולה לאומית במזרח אירופה: בין ההשתלבות לבין האנטישמיות (מאוריצי גוטליב ומארק אנטוקולסקי) 16.מאוריצי גוטליב, איגרת ודברי-יומן, ירושלים, תשט"ז. 17. מנדלסון, עזרא, מאוריצי גוטליב, אמנות, היסטוריה, זיכרון, ירושלים, 2006 (תרגום מ- page 4 / 8

Mendelsohn, Ezra, Painting a People: Maurycy Gottlieb and Jewish Art, Brandeis, 2002). 18. Amishai-Maisels, Ziva, The Jewish Jesus, Journal of Jewish Art, vol. 9, 1982, pp. 84-104. 19. Glants, Musya, Where is My Home? The Art and Life of the Russian Jewish Sculptor Mark Antokolsky, 1843-1902, Baltimore, 2010. 20. Guralnik, Nehama (ed.), In the Flower of Youth, Maurycy Gottlieb, 1856-1879, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, 1991. 21. Litvak, Olga, "Rome and Jerusalem: The Figure of Jesus in the Creation of M. M. Antokolskii," in The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times, ed. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jon Karp, Philadelphia, 2006, pp.228-253. 22. Rajner, Mirjam, The Awakening of Jewish National Art in Russia, Jewish Art, vol. 16/17, 1990-91, pp. 98-121. אימפרסיוניזם במערב ומזרח אירופה : אוניברסאליות, לאומיות (יוסף ישראלס, מקס ליברמן, יסאק לביטן, לאוניד פסטרנק) 23. קאמי פיסארו: מסע התחדשות של אימפרסיוניסט, (עורכים) יואכים פיסארו וסטפני רחום, ירושלים: מוזיאון ישראל, 1994. 24. Cahn, Walter, "Max Liebermann and the Amsterdam Jewish Quarter," in The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times, ed. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jon Karp, Philadelphia, 2006, 208-227. 25. Dekkers D. (ed.), Jozef Israels, 1824-1911, exh. cat., Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, December 17, 1999- April 2, 2000. 26. Faas, Martin, (ed.), Der Jesus-Skandal: Ein Liebermann-Bild in Kreuzfeier der Kritik, Berlin, 2009. 27. Levitov, Karen and Richard Shiff, Camille Pisarro, Impressions of City and Country, Exh. cat., The Jewish Museum, New York, Sept 16, 2007 Feb 3, 2008. 28. Pasternak, Leonid Osipovich, The Memoirs of Leonid Pasternak, with Introduction by page 5 / 8

Josephine Pasternak, London, 1982. 29. Rajner, Mirjam, Levitans Jewish Graveyard, The Israel Museum Journal, vol. XII, Summer 1994, pp. 29-34. 30. Rogoff, Irit, Max Liebermann and the Painting of the Public Sphere, Art and its Uses, New York, 1990, pp. 91-109. 31. Salys, Rimgaila, Leonid Pasternak, the Russian Years, 1875-1921: a critical study and catalogue, Oxford, 1999. אמנות בסוף המאה סימבוליזם, אר נובו- "חזרה לגטו" וציונות (איזידור קאופמן, שמואל הרשנברג, יהודה פן, אפרים משה ליליין, בוריס שץ) 32. א. מ. ליליין, האמן הציוני הראשון, המוזיאון הפתוח תפן, 1997. 33. בצלל של שץ, 1929-1906, מוזיאון ישראל, ירושלים, תשמ"ג.. 34 צלמונה, יגאל, בוריס שץ, אבי האמנות הישראלית, מוזאון ישראל, ירושלים, תשס"ו. 35. Cohen, Richard I. and Mirjam Rajner, "The Return of the Wandering Jew(s) in Samuel Hirszenberg's Art," Ars Judaica, The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, Vol. 7, January 2011, pp. 33-56. 36. Kazovskii, Grigorii, Artists from Vitebsk: Yehuda Pen and his Pupils,Moscow, 1991. 37. Natter, G. Tobias, Rabbiner, Bocher, Talmudschler. Bilder des Wiener Malers Isidor Kaufmann, Jdisches Museum der Stadt Wien, 1995. המהפכה הרוסית ואמנות אוונגרד (מארק שאגאל, נתן אלטמן, אליעזר ליסיצקי) 38. Apter-Gabriel, Ruth ed. Tradition and Revolution, The Jewish Renaissance in Russian Avant-Garde Art,1912-1928. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, June 1987. 39. Apter-Gabriel, Ruth, "El Lissitzky's 'Self-Portrait (Constructor)' 1924: paradoxes and Possible Sources," Ars Judaica, 6 (2010), 101-114. page 6 / 8

40. Harshav, Benjamin, Marc Cahgall and his Times: a Documentary Narrative, Stanford, 2004. 41. Kazovsky, Hillel, The Artists of the Kultur-Lige, Moscow, 2003. 42. Perloff, Nancy and Brian Reed, (ed.), Situating El Lissitzky Vitebsk, Berlin, Moscow, Los Angeles, 2003. 43. Vitali, Christopher, Marc Chagall, The Russian Years, 1906-1922, exh. cat., Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, June 6 Sept 8, 1991. 44. Wullschlager, Jackie, Chagall, Love and Exile, London: Allen Lane, 2008. אסכולת פריז ואמני מונפרנאס (אמדאו מודיליאני, מארק שאגאל, חיים סוטין, מאנה-קץ) 45. תרשיש, נועה, עורכת, מאנה-קץ אוקראינה פריז ארץ-ישראל, חיפה, 2011 46. Kleeblatt, Norman L. and Kenneth Silver, An Expressionist in Paris: the Paintings of Chaim Soutine, The Jewish Museum New York, Munich: Prestel, 1998. 47. Klein, Mason (ed.), Modigliani: Beyond the Myth, Jewish Museum New York, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 48. Rajner, Mirjam, Chagall: the Artist and the Poet, Jewish Art, 21/22, 1995-96, pp. 40-67. 49. Silver, Kenneth, E. and Romy Golan, The Circle of Montparnasse: Jewish Artists in Paris 1905-1945, The Jewish Museum New York, New York: Universe Books, 1989. 50. Wullschlager, Jackie, Chagall, Love and Exile, London: Allen Lane, 2008. אקספרסיוניזם גרמני: (יעקב שטיינהרט ולודוויג מיידנר) 51. שורק, רונית,עורכת, חלום יעקב, שטיינהרט: הדפסים, רישומים וציורים, מוזיאון ישראל, ירושלים, 2010. 52. מענית, גבריאל, בין יעקב לישראל - זהות ומולדת ביצירתו של יעקב שטיינהרט, תפן : המוזיאון page 7 / 8

Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) הפתוח, גן התעשייה, 1998 53. Breuer, Gerda, Ludwig Meidner: Zeichner, Maler, Literat, 1884-1966, vol. 1-2, Stuttgart,1. 54. Kaufmann, Dorothee, Einflsse auf das Frhwerk Jakob Steinhardts : zur geistesgeschichtlichen Verortung eines jdischen Expressionisten mit einem Ausblick auf sein Gesamtwerk, Egelsbach, 2000. אחרית דבר: גרמניה, נאציזם ואומנותו של פליקס נוסבאום 55. Berger, E., K. G. Kaster, Felix Nussbaum: art defamed, art in exile, art in resistance: a biography, exh. cat., Osnabrck, 1997. Course/Module evaluation: End of year written/oral examination 0 % Presentation 0 % Participation in Tutorials 10 % Project work 90 % Assignments 0 % Reports 0 % Research project 0 % Quizzes 0 % Other 0 % Additional information: During the course the students will visit one relevant exhibition. The students will receive personal guidance in choosing the topic and writing the paper. page 8 / 8