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Jewish Art in Nazi Germany: The Jewish Cultural League in Bavaria book cover

1st Edition

Jewish Art in Nazi Germany The Jewish Cultural League in Bavaria

By Dana Smith Copyright 2022
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge
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This book provides a social and cultural history of Jewish art in Nazi Germany, with a focus on the Jewish artists, art critics, and audiences in Nazi Bavaria. From the time of its conceptualization in the autumn of 1933 until its final curtain call in November 1938, the Jewish Cultural League in Bavaria sustained three departments: music, visual arts, and adult education. The Bavarian... Read more

Introduction

Part One

1933-1935

1. Jewish Exclusion from the ‘German’ Cultural Sphere: Impact and Responses

2. Kultur and Bund: The Theory and Frameworks of ‘Jewish’ Culture in Bavaria

3. Jewish Music and ‘the Most German of the Arts:’ Liturgy, Folk Music, and Mendelssohn

4. The ‘Kulturbund’ and the Kunststadt:’ Visual Arts in Nazi Bavaria

Part Two

1935-1938

5. From Munich to Berlin: The Loss of Regional Autonomy and a National Jewish Cultural League

6. A Bavarian Musical Department without Bavarian Musicians: Repertoire, Artists, and Venues

7. Bavarian Visual Artists within the National and Regional Context: Exhibitions and Marionettes

8. The Final Curtain: Emigration, Poverty, and ‘Liquidation’

EpilogueConclusion

Biography

Dana Smith is an assistant professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Keene State College, in Keene, New Hampshire. Her research interests include German Jewish history, Holocaust studies, and cultural histories of the Third Reich.

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