Rethinking Jewish History and Memory Through Photography

Ofer Ashkenazi is Professor of History and the Director of the Koebner-Minerva Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan is Professor of History and the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History at the University of Colorado Boulder.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionOfer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow KaplanPart I. Reading, Curating, and Teaching "Jewish" Photography: Theory and Practice1. What Is Jewish Photography and What Can We Learn from It? A Discussion with Marianne Hirsch and Leo SpitzerOfer Ashkenazi and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan2. Invisibly Jewish: Lotte Jacobi, Photography, and the Boundaries of Jewish Cultural StudiesLisa Silverman3. Photographs, Jews, and Nazis: The Politics of a Visual Archive, Historically and TodayMaiken Umbach and Jonathan StaffordPart II. Probing the Boundaries of Documentation: Jewish Photographic Memory4. Theodor Herzl Is Yael BartanaNoam Gal5. Paper Tombstones: Photographic Inventory and German Jewish Cemetery BooksDaniel H. Magilow6. Displaced and Dreaming in Postwar Germany: The Lure of the Motorcycle and the BriefcaseDora Apel7. Reactivating Nineteenth-Century Jewish Portrait Albums in Institutions: Cultural Memory and Connected HistoriesMichele KleinPart III. The Photographed Jewish Body: Agency, Race, Nation8. Zionism and the "Jewish Pathos Formula" in Helmar Lerski's Type PhotographsAmos Morris-Reich9. Photography and Racism in Israel: A Telegraphic Sketch of Three ProcessesKtzia AlonPart IV. Jewish Photography as a Commentary on Crisis and Violence10. Photography as Agency: Self-assurance through Urban Documentation in the Works of Roman Vishniac and Abraham PisarekJoachim Schlor11. Capturing Blind Spots: The Photographed and the Not-to-Be-Photographed in Nazi GermanyChristoph Kreutzmuller and Theresia Ziehe12. The Afterlife of the Barefoot Rabbi and the Making of an Iconic Holocaust PhotographYechiel WeizmanPart V. The Jewish Gaze on the Other "Others": Migration, Colonialism, Minorities13. Moving Views: Global Routes of Jewish Refuge as Spaces of Early Humanitarian SeeingRebekka Grossmann14. Politics and Pictures: Jewish American Photographers and Black Americans, 1938–1964Deborah Dash Moore15. Beyond Black and White: Jews, African Americans, and Africa in Photography, Film, and TelevisionMichael BerkowitzContributing AuthorsIndex

"This is, to my knowledge, the most comprehensive, most broadly based, and likely the most useful and accessible book on Jewish photography. Well written, richly illustrated, and intelligently and comprehensively constructed and edited, it is extremely important to the field of Jewish studies but also serves as a model for anyone who wishes to engage with photographic material." — Ellen Smith, Brandeis University