Looking Jewish: Visual Culture & Modern Diaspora

"Thanks to Carol Zemel's provocative study, we are invited to look at Jewish art in new ways . . . provides a deeper understanding of the ordeal of diaspora." —Studies in American Jewish Literature

Jewish art and visual culture—art made by Jews about Jews—in modern diasporic settings is the subject of Looking Jewish. Carol Zemel focuses on particular artists and cultural figures in interwar Eastern Europe and postwar America who blended Jewishness and mainstream modernism to create a diaspo...