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Author Berger, Natalia, author

Title The Jewish museum : history and memory, identity and art from Vienna to the Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem / by Natalia Berger
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 584 pages)
Series Jewish identities in a changing world ; volume 29
Jewish identities in a changing world ; v. 29.
Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Why Jewish Museums? -- Part 1 The Strauss Collection and the Anglo-Jewish Exhibition -- Chapter 1 Isaac Strauss and His Collection -- Chapter 2 The Historic Anglo-Jewish Exhibition in London, 1887 -- Part 2 The Jewish Museums of Austria-Hungary: Vienna, Prague, and Budapest -- Chapter 3 Introduction: The Jewish Museum in Vienna -- Chapter 4 The Determining Factors in the Establishment of the Museum -- Chapter 5 The Jewish Museum of Vienna, 1895â#x80;#x93;1906 -- Chapter 6 The Exhibits
Chapter 7 The Jewish Museum of PragueChapter 8 The Jewish Museum of Budapest -- Part 3 The Bezalel National Museum in Jerusalem -- Chapter 9 Historical Background -- Chapter 10 To Realize a Dream: Boris Schatz and the Bezalel Museum in the Formative Years, 1906â#x80;#x93;12 -- Chapter 11 The Years 1909â#x80;#x93;14 -- Chapter 12 Boris Schatzâ#x80;#x99;s Utopian Museum as Charted in His Book Jerusalem Rebuilt -- Chapter 13 The Bezalel Museum in the Years Following World War I, 1919â#x80;#x93;26
Chapter 14 From the Bezalel National Museum to the Israel Museum: Mordechai Narkissâ#x80;#x99;s Vision and Achievements: 1932â#x80;#x93;57Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Bibliography
Summary In The Jewish Museum 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.-- Provided by Publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 22, 2018)
Subject Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien -- History
Bet ha-nekhot ha-leʼumi Betsalʼel -- History
Muzeʼon Yiśraʼel (Jerusalem) -- History
Bet ha-nekhot ha-leʼumi Betsalʼel
Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien
Muzeʼon Yiśraʼel (Jerusalem)
Jewish museums -- History
Jews -- Identity -- History
Collective memory.
HISTORY -- World.
Collective memory
Jewish museums
Jews -- Identity
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017041295
ISBN 9789004353886
9004353887