On View
Exhibition of Selections from the Posen Library of Jewish Culture & Civilization and Center for Jewish History
Between 1880 and 1918, around the globe, regimes collapsed, migration and imperialism remade the lives of millions, nationalism and secularization transformed selves and collectives, utopias beckoned, and new kinds of social conflict threatened. Few communities experienced the pressures and possibilities of the era more profoundly than the world’s Jews. This exhibit focuses on the range of Jewish expression—from mystical visions to political thought, cookbooks to literary criticism, modernist poetry to vaudeville—in English translations in Volume 7 of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, edited by Israel Bartal and Kenneth B. Moss (Yale University Press). It features examples from seven languages drawn from sources at the Center for Jewish History.
This exhibit opens on
Sunday, November 17
On dsplay through: February 14