Margaret Olin is a Senior Research Scholar at the Yale Divinity School. She is the author of Forms of Representation in Alois Riegl's Theory of Art.

• Contents: List of Illustrations Preface: Reflections from Vienna Part 1: Defining Jewish Art 1. Jewish Art Defined: From Bezalel to Max Liebermann 2. The Nation with Art? Bezalel in Palestine Part 2: Reclaiming Jewish Art 3. David Kaufmann's Studies in Jewish Art: Die (Kunst)Wissenschaft des Judentums 4. Martin Buber: Jewish Art As Visual Redemption 5. "Jewish Christians" and "Early Christian" Synagogues: The Discovery at Dura-Europos and Its Aftermath Part 3: Abstaining from Jewish Art 6. C[lement] Hardesh (Greenberg): Formal Criticism and Jewish Identity 7. Graven Images on Video? The Second Commandment and Contemporary Jewish Identity Notes Index

"A well-researched and insightful work."—Choice "Margaret Rose Olin is a brave scholar. In her new book, The Nation Without Art: Examining Modern Discourses on Jewish Art, the professor of art history and theory at the Art Institute of Chicago ostensibly concentrates on the relatively constricted issue of whether the art created by Jews can be called distinctively "Jewish" in style, substance and temperament. . . . Olin's book reaches the heart of the argument, and really becomes interesting, in the concluding chapters, when she confronts such 20th-century art critics as Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenberg, Ernst Gombrich and other secular skeptics."—The Forward "The discussion of Buber's art historical training is a stunning and persuasive piece of archival-based scholarship, profoundly transforming our understanding of Buber's aesthetically inspired, influential version of dialogical existentialism. . . . Provocative, compelling, and indispensable."—Kalman P. Bland, Religious Studies Review

Margaret Olin is a Senior Research Scholar at the Yale Divinity School. She is the author of Forms of Representation in Alois Riegl's Theory of Art.

• Contents: List of Illustrations Preface: Reflections from Vienna Part 1: Defining Jewish Art 1. Jewish Art Defined: From Bezalel to Max Liebermann 2. The Nation with Art? Bezalel in Palestine Part 2: Reclaiming Jewish Art 3. David Kaufmann's Studies in Jewish Art: Die (Kunst)Wissenschaft des Judentums 4. Martin Buber: Jewish Art As Visual Redemption 5. "Jewish Christians" and "Early Christian" Synagogues: The Discovery at Dura-Europos and Its Aftermath Part 3: Abstaining from Jewish Art 6. C[lement] Hardesh (Greenberg): Formal Criticism and Jewish Identity 7. Graven Images on Video? The Second Commandment and Contemporary Jewish Identity Notes Index

"A well-researched and insightful work."—Choice "Margaret Rose Olin is a brave scholar. In her new book, The Nation Without Art: Examining Modern Discourses on Jewish Art, the professor of art history and theory at the Art Institute of Chicago ostensibly concentrates on the relatively constricted issue of whether the art created by Jews can be called distinctively "Jewish" in style, substance and temperament. . . . Olin's book reaches the heart of the argument, and really becomes interesting, in the concluding chapters, when she confronts such 20th-century art critics as Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenberg, Ernst Gombrich and other secular skeptics."—The Forward "The discussion of Buber's art historical training is a stunning and persuasive piece of archival-based scholarship, profoundly transforming our understanding of Buber's aesthetically inspired, influential version of dialogical existentialism. . . . Provocative, compelling, and indispensable."—Kalman P. Bland, Religious Studies Review

Margaret Olin is a Senior Research Scholar at the Yale Divinity School. She is the author of Forms of Representation in Alois Riegl's Theory of Art.

• Contents: List of Illustrations Preface: Reflections from Vienna Part 1: Defining Jewish Art 1. Jewish Art Defined: From Bezalel to Max Liebermann 2. The Nation with Art? Bezalel in Palestine Part 2: Reclaiming Jewish Art 3. David Kaufmann's Studies in Jewish Art: Die (Kunst)Wissenschaft des Judentums 4. Martin Buber: Jewish Art As Visual Redemption 5. "Jewish Christians" and "Early Christian" Synagogues: The Discovery at Dura-Europos and Its Aftermath Part 3: Abstaining from Jewish Art 6. C[lement] Hardesh (Greenberg): Formal Criticism and Jewish Identity 7. Graven Images on Video? The Second Commandment and Contemporary Jewish Identity Notes Index

"A well-researched and insightful work."—Choice "Margaret Rose Olin is a brave scholar. In her new book, The Nation Without Art: Examining Modern Discourses on Jewish Art, the professor of art history and theory at the Art Institute of Chicago ostensibly concentrates on the relatively constricted issue of whether the art created by Jews can be called distinctively "Jewish" in style, substance and temperament. . . . Olin's book reaches the heart of the argument, and really becomes interesting, in the concluding chapters, when she confronts such 20th-century art critics as Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenberg, Ernst Gombrich and other secular skeptics."—The Forward "The discussion of Buber's art historical training is a stunning and persuasive piece of archival-based scholarship, profoundly transforming our understanding of Buber's aesthetically inspired, influential version of dialogical existentialism. . . . Provocative, compelling, and indispensable."—Kalman P. Bland, Religious Studies Review