Mirjam Rajner
Biographic Data
| ID | 9237604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mirjam Rajner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mirjam |
| FAMILY NAME | Rajner |
| SIGNATURE | RAJNER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7779-7247 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Depicting Kazimierz’s Jewish Ghetto
On 11 March 1899, a group of young Jewish artists organized a commemorative evening in memory of the late Maurycy Gottlieb, an event accompanied by the publication of the festive Jednodniówka, which included contributions by Jewish and Polish modernist artists and writers. Artur Markowicz was among them. This article examines the fin-de-siècle renaissance of Jewish modernist visual culture and its exploration of traditional Eastern European Jewis…
Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe
This impressive collection of articles exploring the field of Jewish literatures, languages, and cultures in Southeastern Europe is the outcome of a homonymous international conference that took place in Graz, Austria, in September 2019, and that was organized by the Institute of Slavic Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies, of the University of Graz.As the conference organizers and the book editors, both specialists in Slavic and Jewish lite…
Introduction. Crossing Borders
Southeastern Europe is an understudied area in both Jewish and European studies.Although this fascinating multi-ethnic and multi-religious region is located at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Balkan, Central, and East European worlds that were once part of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, and includes the Ashkenazic-Sephardic fault-line, it has not yet received sufficient scholarly attention.As the result of the Holocaust and emigra…
Samuel Hirszenberg, 1865-1908
Samuel Hirszenberg is an artist who deserves to be more widely known: his work intertwined modernism and Jewish themes, and he influenced later artists of Jewish origin. Born into a traditional Jewish family in Łódź in 1865, Hirszenberg gradually became attached to Polish culture and language as he pursued his artistic calling. Like Maurycy Gottlieb before him, he studied at the School of Art in Kraków, which was then headed by the master of Poli…
The Orient in Jewish Artistic Creativity
This chapter examines the “Oriental” theme and self-Orientalization among Jewish artists such as Samuel Hirszenberg and Leopold Pilichowski. In postcolonial discourse, the Western imagining of the Orient is often understood as being part of a pejorative and politically charged ideology known as Orientalism. More recently, the art-historical approach has revealed that Orientalist art does not only comprise works that reflect a Western or European …
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The Orient in Jewish Artistic Creativity
This chapter examines the “Oriental” theme and self-Orientalization among Jewish artists such as Samuel Hirszenberg and Leopold Pilichowski. In postcolonial discourse, the Western imagining of the Orient is often understood as being part of a pejorative and politically charged ideology known as Orientalism. More recently, the art-historical approach has revealed that Orientalist art does not only comprise works that reflect a Western or European …
Samuel Hirszenberg, 1865-1908
Samuel Hirszenberg is an artist who deserves to be more widely known: his work intertwined modernism and Jewish themes, and he influenced later artists of Jewish origin. Born into a traditional Jewish family in Łódź in 1865, Hirszenberg gradually became attached to Polish culture and language as he pursued his artistic calling. Like Maurycy Gottlieb before him, he studied at the School of Art in Kraków, which was then headed by the master of Poli…
Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe
This impressive collection of articles exploring the field of Jewish literatures, languages, and cultures in Southeastern Europe is the outcome of a homonymous international conference that took place in Graz, Austria, in September 2019, and that was organized by the Institute of Slavic Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies, of the University of Graz.As the conference organizers and the book editors, both specialists in Slavic and Jewish lite…
Introduction. Crossing Borders
Southeastern Europe is an understudied area in both Jewish and European studies.Although this fascinating multi-ethnic and multi-religious region is located at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Balkan, Central, and East European worlds that were once part of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, and includes the Ashkenazic-Sephardic fault-line, it has not yet received sufficient scholarly attention.As the result of the Holocaust and emigra…
Depicting Kazimierz’s Jewish Ghetto
On 11 March 1899, a group of young Jewish artists organized a commemorative evening in memory of the late Maurycy Gottlieb, an event accompanied by the publication of the festive Jednodniówka, which included contributions by Jewish and Polish modernist artists and writers. Artur Markowicz was among them. This article examines the fin-de-siècle renaissance of Jewish modernist visual culture and its exploration of traditional Eastern European Jewis…
Judaism (5 works) · History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · The Holocaust (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Central European Literary Studies (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works)