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  1. The artless Jew
    medieval and modern affirmations and denials of the visual
    Author: Bland, Kalman P.
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0691010439; 069108985X; 1400811074; 1400823579; 9780691010434; 9780691089850; 9781400811076; 9781400823574
    Subjects: Ten commandments / Images; RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice; RELIGION / Judaism / History; Beeldende kunsten; Visualisatie; Esthetica; Jodendom; Geschichte; Juden; Judentum; Kunst; Ästhetik; Judaism and art; Jewish art; Jewish aesthetics; Jews; Judentum; Kunst; Jüdische Kunst; Einstellung; Juden; Ästhetik
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (233 pages)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-228) and index

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    Conventional wisdom holds that Judaism is indifferent or even suspiciously hostile to the visual arts due to the Second Commandment's prohibition on creating "graven images," the dictates of monotheism, and historical happenstance. This intellectual history of medieval and modern Jewish attitudes toward art and representation overturns the modern assumption of Jewish iconophobia that denies to Jewish culture a visual dimension. Kalman Bland synthesizes evidence from medieval Jewish philosophy, mysticism, poetry, biblical commentaries, travelogues, and law, concluding that premodern Jewish intel
  2. The artless Jew
    medieval and modern affirmations and denials of the visual
    Author: Bland, Kalman P.
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400823574; 0691010439
    Subjects: Juden; Jewish art; Jewish aesthetics; Jews; Judaism and art; Einstellung; Jüdische Kunst; Kunst; Juden; Judentum; Ästhetik
    Scope: 233 p
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-228 and index