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Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
xviii, 358 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. In these images and objects that reflect, refract, and also shape daily experience, he finds new and illuminating insights into Jewish life in the modern period. Pointing to recent scholarship that overturns the stereotype of Jews as people of the text, unconcerned with the visual, Cohen shows how...
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