Media Type: Video
Holocaust Survivor Holograms: A Conversation with Golan Moskowitz and David Slucki
Golan Moskowitz and David Slucki discuss both advantages and critiques made of recent technological innovations employed for representing Holocaust survivor testimonies.
Histories of Migration and Global Capitalism Conference: Impact of this Conference for those who don’t work on Jewish History
Historians Andonis Piperoglou, Mae Ngai, Hasia Diner, Suzanne Rutland, and Ruth Balint discuss the impact of the Histories of Migration & Global Capitalism Conference for those who don’t work on Jewish history.
Field Update: Studies on Jewish American Art
When I set out to write this essay, the first thing I did was check for recent dissertations on Jewish American art. I was surprised by what I found—or didn’t find. A keyword search for “Jewish American art” yielded only a handful of results. I had expected to find studies that treat Jewishness as part of a multifaceted picture of American art or of an artist’s oeuvre. But art history departments were producing very few indeed.
Current American Jewish Music Studies
The study of Jewish music in America is not as robust and diverse as other topics in Jewish Studies. For one thing, most approaches to Jewish Music are Eurocentric (which is true of Jewish Studies in general). But the main reason might be that the subject falls into a kind of academic no-man’s-land.