Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History

Richard I. Cohen is Paulette and Claude Kelman Chair in French Jewry Studies and head of the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His works include The Burden of Conscience: French-Jewish Leadership during the Holocaust, Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe, and From Court Jews to the Rothschilds: Art, Patronage, and Power, 1600-1800. The current editors of Studies in Contemporary Jewry are Richard I. Cohen, Anat Helman, Eli Lederhendler, and Uzi Rebhun, all of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

• Symposium: Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History ; The Visual Revolution in Jewish Life - An Overview, Richard I. Cohen ; Displaying Judaica in 18th-Century Central Europe: A Non-Jewish Curiosity, Michael Korey ; Collecting Community: The Berlin Jewish Museum as Narrator between Past and Present, 1906-1939, Tobias Metzler ; Jewish Museums in the Federal Republic of Germany, Inka Bertz ; Post-trauma "Precious Legacies": Jewish Museums in Eastern Europe after the Holocaust and before the Fall of Communism, Ruth Ellen Gruber ; From Wandering Jew to Immigrant Ethnic: Musealizing Jewish Immigration, Robin Ostow ; Six Exhibitions, Six Decades: Toward the Recanonization of Contemporary Israeli Art, Ruth Direktor ; In Between Past and Future: Time and Relatedness in the Six Decades Exhibitions, Osnat Zukerman Rechter ; A Matrix of Matrilineal Memory in the Museum: Charlotte Salomon and Chantal Akerman in Berlin, Lisa Saltzman ; Between Two Worlds: Ghost Stories under Glass in Vienna and Chicago, Abigail Glogower and Margaret Olin ; Thoughts on the Role of a European Jewish Museum in the 21st Century, Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek ; Essay ; "The Forces of Darkness": Leonard Woolf, Isaiah Berlin, and English Antisemitism, Elliott Horowitz ; Review Essays ; It's Not All Religious Fundamentalism, Chaim I. Waxman ; One Step before the Abyss: Recent Scholarship on the Jews in Occupied Soviet Territories during the Second World War, Kiril Feferman ; Book Reviews