Bernard Picart's Etchings of Amsterdam's Jews
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2760090 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samantha Baskind (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 40-64 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Jewish Social Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-6704 • E-ISSN: 1527-2028 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/jss.2007.13.2.40 |
| OpenAlex | W2028836371 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article examines the Frenchman Bernard Picart's etchings of Amsterdam's Jewish community, published in 1723 in the initial volume of Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde. It is here, for one of the first times, that "the Jew" was not understood as a singular type, nor was the Jew acquired by the colonizer. We can only understand why Picart was so interested in portraying the Jew as two separate types by considering his work in the context of extra-aesthetic factors. Picart's imagery functions as a critique of the mass influx of a second "type" of Jew, the Ashkenazi or east European Jew, who dominated Amsterdam by the eighteenth century
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology · Humanities · Judaism · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |