The Visual Culture of Chabad - Rilegato

Katz, Maya Balakirsky

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ISBN 10: 0521191637 ISBN 13: 9780521191630

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Riassunto

This book presents the first full-length study of a vast and complex visual tradition produced, revered, preserved, banned and destroyed by the Hasidic movement of Chabad. This rich repository of visual artifacts provides the archaeological data for an analysis of how the movement consolidated its influence during a period of political and economic transformation and survived its immigration to America in the wake of the Holocaust. As one of the most self-documented and media-preserved modern Jewish movements, Chabad's rich material culture, including the hand-held portrait, the 'rebbishe' space, the printer's mark and the public menorah, afford scholars a wider range of interpretive strategies for understanding the movement and the role of the visual experience in religion.

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Recensione:

'Balakirsky Katz does a masterly service and provides a penetrating portrait of visual culture and Chabad.' Yoel Cohen, Communication Research Trends

Descrizione del libro:

This book unfolds the modern Hasidic movement built by the rabbinical Schneerson family. Through the prism of Chabad portraits, architecture and ceremonial objects, one sees the powerful Schneerson hold over their Eastern European flock, the reemergence of the Chabad movement after the Holocaust, and engagement of public space.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521191637
• ISBN 13: 9780521191630
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 260