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Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

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New York University
Barbara is a professor in the Department of Performance Studies and Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Her research interests are: the agency of display; theorizing heritage; East European Jewish culture.
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Tamar Katriel

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University of Haifa
Tamar is a professor in the Department of Communication and Education at the University of Haifa. Her research interests are: cultural patterns in communication; the interplay of verbal and material culture; the poetics and politics of museum representation and interpretation.
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Milly Heyd

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Milly is a professor in the Department of History of Art at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests are: modern and contemporary art; art and psychoanalysis; modern and contemporary Jewish art.
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Ezra Mendelsohn

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ezra is a professor in the Institute of Contemporary Jewry and the Department of Russian Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are: western and central European Jewish history; social history of Jewish art and culture.
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Zvi Jagendorf

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Zvi is a professor in the Departments of English and Theatre at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are: representations of the actress in early twentieth century European writing; Shakespeare's text and performance; religion and Israeli theatre; the Jewish refugee in England.
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Elliott Horowitz

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Bar-Ilan University
Elliott is a professor in the Department of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University. His research interests are: Jewish social and cultural history in medieval and modern times; history of Purim; the beard and the changing face of Judaism.
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Richard Cohen

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Richard is a professor in the Department of History of the Jewish People at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are: western and central European Jewish history; social history of Jewish art and culture.
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Walter Cahn

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Yale University
Walter is a professor in the Department of History of Art at the Yale University. His research interests are: medieval sculpture and painting; Romanesque and Gothic book illumination; Judaism and art; theories of art.

Visual Culture and Modern Jewish Society

[RG #64] Visual Culture and Modern Jewish Society

February - August 1996

Organizers:

Richard Cohen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Ezra Mendelsohn (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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This Research Group is composed of scholars in a number of disciplines: art history, Jewish history, theatre, sociology and anthropology. All are interested in the ways in which the study of modern Jewish society can be advanced through a study of visual images, ranging from high art to caricatures, exhibitions in museums and world fairs and the stage. Another principle concern in to examine how certain images can be better understood by placing them in their proper Jewish context.

 

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Israel Shatzman

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel is a professor in the Department of History at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are Greek and Roman history, and the Roman army in Judaea.
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Francis Schmidt

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École Pratique des Hautes Études
Francis is a professor in the Section des Sciences Religieuses at École Pratique des Hautes Études. His research interests are: history of Judaism in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and historiography of ancient Judaism.
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Uriel Rappaport

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University of Haifa
Uriel is a professor in the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa. His research interests are Jewish history in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman periods.
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Joseph Meleze-Modrzejewski

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Pantheon-Sorbonne University/ Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
Joseph is a professor in the Centre de recherches d'histoire ancienne at Pantheon-Sorbonne University, and in the Section des Sciences Historiques et Philologiques at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes.
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Erich Gruen

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UC Berkeley
Erich is a professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests are: Hellenistic history (cultural, social and political); Roman history (cultural, social and political); the Jews in the Graeco-Roman world (Second Temple period).
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Dan Barag

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dan is a professor in the Institute of Archaeology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are: Archaeology and history of Israel from the Second Temple period to the Arab conquest. Ancient Jewish art. Ancient glass from the 2nd millennium BCE to late antiquity.