World Art Studies
Tom 3 (2010)

Note from the Editors

Jewish art in Central-Eastern Europe: the nineteenth century to the Second War World : introduction

Jerzy Malinowski

Jews in Poland between the Two World Wars

Szymon Rudnicki

Yiddishland : Jewish identity in East Central Europe

Ewa Geller

Architecture of synagogues on the lands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 15th - early 19th century

Maria Piechotka, Kazimierz Piechotka

Synagogues of Europe : still much to learn

Eleonora Bergman

The function of Kazimierz as 'lieu de mémoire' in Yiddish film in interwar Poland

Marcos Silber

The wall decoration in the Isaac Synagogue in Kazimierz District, Krakow : the first overall layer

Bracha Yaniv

Yehuda Leib ben Eliyya Ha-Cohen's Haggadah. Copenhagen, 1769. A Jewish artist in the making?

Ulf G. Haxen

The motif of Jerusalem in Jewish tapestry and ritual objects in Polish collections

Iwona Brzewska

Jewish German graphic amulets from the eighteen century

Waldemar Deluga

The 'Spanier Arbeit' technique

Anna Lebet-Minakowska

Role of stained glass windows in the architecture of progressive synagogues on the example of the 'Temple' Synagogue in Krakow

Małgorzata Reinhard-Chlanda

Besamim & Hasidim : the Sabbath soul and myrtle in Jewish mysticism and a selection of Eastern European spice boxes

Daniela M. Schmid

Józef Awin on Jewish art and architecture

Sergey R. Kravtsov

Polish influence on American synagogue architecture

Samuel D. Gruber

'Zealots and dreamers aiming at something to which only millionaires and powerful nations can aspire' : the Ben Uri Art Society and its founders

Julia Weiner

Destiny of the Museum of the Jewish Historical and Ethnographical Society after 1917

Irina Sergeyeva

Portraits of 'biblical' women in Maurycy Gottlieb's and Wilhelm Wachtel's painting : a semiotic and iconographic approach to the pictures of Judith and Salome

Monika Czekanowska

Jewish idiom in the art of Henryk Glicenstein

Tamara Sztyma-Knasiecka

Herzl's portrait by Leopold Pilichowski : meanings of the picture

Artur Kamczycki

The influence of the Zionist's ideology on the Jewish artistic milieu in Krakow, 1904-1939

Natasza Styrna

From Warsaw to Whitechapel : an exploration of cultural and artistic identity in the early work of Alfred Aaron Wolmark (ca 1876-1961)

Sarah MacDougall

Heralds of moderate modernity : Polish-Jewish artists in Catalonia

Artur Tanikowski

Jacques Lipchitz : sculpture as prayer

Avigdor W. G. Posèq

Jacob Kramer (1892-1962) : British Modernism and the Central Eastern Jewish émigré experience, 1913-1923

Rachel Dickson

Bruno Schulz's 'Booke of Idolatry' : making Jewish art in Diaspora

Carol Zemel

Jankel Adler : Hassidism and New Jewish Art

Eleonora Jedlińska

El Lissitzky and the search for New Jewish Art (Vitebsk - Moscow - Berlin)

Igor Dukhan

Reflections on Lee Krasner and Jewish culture of Eastern Europe

Gail Levin

Bezalel versus Kultur-Lige : approaches to Jewish revival

Eugeny Kotlyar

Jewish Expressionism : a quest for cultural space

Małgorzata Stolarska-Fronia

Max Silberberg's commitment to modern art and Jewish culture in interwar Breslau

Keith Holz

Not just writers... Artists at Tlomackie 13

Renata Piątkowska

Attitudes of interwar Lithuanian art critics towards Jewish art

Vilma Gradinskaitė

Arieh Merzer and the Warsaw's interwar metaloplastics art scene

Aviv Livnat

Beyond modernity : Benedykt Jerzy Dorys' photos of Polish-Jewish Kazimierz in the 1930s

Andrzej Szczerski

'Rebbishe' representation : pre-war Polish photography of Hasidic leaders

Maya Balakirsky Katz

Art in the Warsaw Ghetto

Magdalena Tarnowska

Reconstructing community : Jonasz Stern's art after the Holocaust

Anna Markowska

Space and memory : Oskar Hansen's project of the Auschwitz Monument

Piotr Juszkiewicz

Disappearance of the identity of the Holocaust victim in Art

Ziva Amishai-Maisels

Illustrations