From their debut in Berlin in the 1780s to their emergence in 1930s California, Jewish women’s salons served as welcoming havens where all classes and creeds could openly debate art, music, literature, and politics. This fascinating book is the first to explore the history of these salons where remarkable women of intellect resolved that neither gender nor religion would impede their ability to bring about social change. Emily D. Bilski and Emily Braun examine the lives of more than a dozen Jewish salonières, charting the evolution of the salon over time and among cultures, in cities including Berlin, Vienna, Paris, London, New York, and Milan. They show how each woman uniquely adapted the salon to suit her own interests while maintaining the salon’s key characteristics of basic informality and a diversity of guests. Other distinguished contributors to the volume discuss in detail the Berlin salons of the 1800s; the salon in terms of Jewish acculturation and its relation to gender and music; and the relations of Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, and Gertrude Stein to the literary salon. The book is enriched with a lavish array of illustrations, including documentary photographs, paintings, drawings, prints, and decorative arts.

Jewish Women and Their Salons: The Power of Conversation

History

BILSKI, Emily D. and BRAUN, Emily

Europe

The Jewish Museum

Artists of Israel, 1920-1980: The Jewish Museum/New York, February 4-may 17, 1981

Illustrated primarily in black and white. Catalog for February 4-May 17, 1981 exhibition. Essays by Moshe Barasch, Yona Fischer, ad Ygal Zalmona. Artists include Yaacov Agam, Mordecai Ardon, Bamuel Bak, Yosl Bergner, Michael Gross, Uri Lifshitz, Anna Ticho, Yosef Zaritsky, and others.

Arts & Photography

Barasch, Moshe

Fischer, Yona

and Zalmona, Ygal (essays by)

Goodman, Susan Tumarkin (exhibition curator)

History & Criticism

Coins Reveal: The Samuel and Daniel M. Friedenberg Collection of Coins and Medals (The Jewish Museum Collection Handbooks)

Reference

Jewish Museum (New York, N. Y.)

Catalogs & Directories

Larry Rivers' History of Matzah: The Story of the Jews (an exhibition catalogue)

RIVERS, Larry

Treasures of the Jewish Museum

A selection of Jewish paintings, sculptures, and ceremonial objects is accompanied by an examination of Jewish art

Schwartz, Sheila (editor)

The only comprehensive work on Yiddish theatre in Britain. Originally published in 1987 to coincide with the exhibition of the same name at the Museum of the Jewish East End at the National Theatre in London. Since then, the Jewish Museum has come into existence and the exhibition was re-mounted and the publication updated to this second edition.

Yiddish theatre in London

David Mazower

Lives Lost, Lives Found : Baltimore's German Jewish Refugees, 1933-1945

Kassof, Anita

Avi Y. Decter

Deborah R. Weiner

The Other Promised Land: Vacationing, Identity, and the Jewish American Dream

Jewish Lives. Public Service

Biographies & Memoirs

Morris, Abigail

Professionals & Academics

Jewish Lives. Commerce

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