Rethinking Jewish History and Memory Through Photography

Ofer Ashkenazi, Thomas Pegelow Kaplan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

428 Seiten

2026
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
979-8-8558-0345-7 (ISBN)

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Reveals the significance of photography in modern Jewish history and memory.

Rethinking Jewish History and Memory Through Photography highlights the significant role of photography in modern Jewish history and memory. Considering photographs as unique documents that not only depict reality but also shape how it is perceived and remembered, the volume emphasizes the importance of careful photographic analysis in understanding modern Jewish experiences, self-perceptions, and memories. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, the book offers a range of innovative approaches to central themes in modern Jewish history, including nationalism, migration, race, and antisemitism. In addition to the discussion of various case studies, a variety of methodological approaches for the current and future use of photoanalysis by scholars are presented.

Ofer Ashkenazi is Professor of History and the Director of the Koebner-Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan is Professor of History and the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

Part I. Reading, Curating, and Teaching "Jewish" Photography: Theory and Practice

1. What Is Jewish Photography and What Can We Learn from It? A Discussion with Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
Ofer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

2. Invisibly Jewish: Lotte Jacobi, Photography, and the Boundaries of Jewish Cultural Studies
Lisa Silverman

3. Photographs, Jews, and Nazis: The Politics of a Visual Archive, Historically and Today
Maiken Umbach and Jonathan Stafford

Part II. Probing the Boundaries of Documentation: Jewish Photographic Memory

4. Theodor Herzl Is Yael Bartana
Noam Gal

5. Paper Tombstones: Photographic Inventory and German Jewish Cemetery Books
Daniel H. Magilow

6. Displaced and Dreaming in Postwar Germany: The Lure of the Motorcycle and the Briefcase
Dora Apel

7. Reactivating Nineteenth-Century Jewish Portrait Albums in Institutions: Cultural Memory and Connected Histories
Michele Klein

Part III. The Photographed Jewish Body: Agency, Race, Nation

8. Zionism and the "Jewish Pathos Formula" in Helmar Lerski's Type Photographs
Amos Morris-Reich

9. Photography and Racism in Israel: A Telegraphic Sketch of Three Processes
Ktzia Alon

Part IV. Jewish Photography as a Commentary on Crisis and Violence

10. Photography as Agency: Self-assurance through Urban Documentation in the Works of Roman Vishniac and Abraham Pisarek
Joachim Schlor

11. Capturing Blind Spots: The Photographed and the Not-to-Be-Photographed in Nazi Germany
Christoph Kreutzmuller and Theresia Ziehe

12. The Afterlife of the Barefoot Rabbi and the Making of an Iconic Holocaust Photograph
Yechiel Weizman

Part V. The Jewish Gaze on the Other "Others": Migration, Colonialism, Minorities

13. Moving Views: Global Routes of Jewish Refuge as Spaces of Early Humanitarian Seeing
Rebekka Grossmann

14. Politics and Pictures: Jewish American Photographers and Black Americans, 1938–1964
Deborah Dash Moore

15. Beyond Black and White: Jews, African Americans, and Africa in Photography, Film, and Television
Michael Berkowitz

Contributing Authors
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.2.2026
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture
Zusatzinfo	104 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	979-8-8558-0345-7 / 9798855803457
Zustand	Neuware