| Fragile Images: Jews and Art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945 Contributor(s): Rajner (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004408851 ISBN-13: 9789004408852 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $206.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts - Biography & Autobiography - Literary Collections |
| Series: Balkan Studies Library |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (2.00 lbs) 474 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 - Mosa 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. |