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In Fragile Images: Jews and Art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945, Mirjam Rajner traces the lives and creativity of seven artists of Jewish origin. The artists - Moša Pijade, Daniel Kabiljo, Adolf Weiller, Bora Baruh, Daniel Ozmo, Ivan Rein and Johanna Lutzer - were characterized by multiple and changeable identities: nationalist and universalist, Zionist and Sephardic, communist and cosmopolitan.
These fluctuating identities found expression in their art, as did their wartime fate as refugees, camp inmates, partisans and survivors. A wealth of newly-discovered images, diaries and letters highlight this little-known aspect of Jewish life and art in Yugoslavia, illuminating a turbulent era that included integration into a newly-founded country, the catastrophe of the Holocaust, and renewal in its aftermath.
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These fluctuating identities found expression in their art, as did their wartime fate as refugees, camp inmates, partisans and survivors. A wealth of newly-discovered images, diaries and letters highlight this little-known aspect of Jewish life and art in Yugoslavia, illuminating a turbulent era that included integration into a newly-founded country, the catastrophe of the Holocaust, and renewal in its aftermath.
interview with the author
Price: $228.00
Pages: 446
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Balkan Studies Library
Publication Date:
19 September 2019
ISBN: 9789004408852
Format: Hardcover
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"Somit hat Mirjam Rajner mit ihrem Buch den im Balkanraum fast vergessenen und in der westlichen Welt so gut wie unbekannten Kulturschafffenden ein Denkmal gegen das Vergessen gesetzt." - Martina Bitunjac, in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 72, 2 (2020), Seiten 228–230
"Somit hat Mirjam Rajner mit ihrem Buch den im Balkanraum fast vergessenen und in der westlichen Welt so gut wie unbekannten Kulturschafffenden ein Denkmal gegen das Vergessen gesetzt." - Martina Bitunjac, in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 72, 2 (2020), Seiten 228–230
Mirjam Rajner, Ph.D. (2004), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a senior lecturer in the Jewish Art Department of Bar-Ilan University and the co-editor of Ars Judaica, The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art. She has published numerous articles on modern Jewish art in edited volumes and academic journals such as Images, East-European Jewish Studies, Studia Rosenthaliana, and Studies in Contemporary Jewry.