The Visual Culture of Chabad
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521191637
ISBN-13
9780521191630
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 11th, 2010
Print length
260 Pages
Weight
536 grams
Dimensions
24.50 x 16.80 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
JudaismJewish studies
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This book unfolds the modern Hasidic movement built by the rabbinical Schneerson family. Through the prism of Chabad portraits, architecture and ceremonial objects, one sees the powerful Schneerson hold over their Eastern European flock, the reemergence of the Chabad movement after the Holocaust, and engagement of public space.
This book presents the first full-length study of a vast and complex visual tradition produced, revered, preserved, banned and destroyed by the Hasidic movement of Chabad. This rich repository of visual artifacts provides the archaeological data for an analysis of how the movement consolidated its influence during a period of political and economic transformation and survived its immigration to America in the wake of the Holocaust. As one of the most self-documented and media-preserved modern Jewish movements, Chabad''s rich material culture, including the hand-held portrait, the ''rebbishe'' space, the printer''s mark and the public menorah, afford scholars a wider range of interpretive strategies for understanding the movement and the role of the visual experience in religion.
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