The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American around our dining room table

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Carol Mueller

The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American around our dining room tableThe wide ranging portrayal of modern Jewishness in artistic terms invites scrutiny into the relationship between creativity and the formation of Jewish identity and into the complex issue of what makes a work of art uniquely Jewish. Whether it is the provenance of the artist, as in the case of popular Israeli singer Zehava Ben, the intention of the iconography, as in Ben Shahn's antifascist paintings, or the utopian ideals of the Jewish Palestine