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Rachel Wischnitzer: Life and Work

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Abstract

"This is an English translation of a classic study on the iconography of Jewish art by Rachel Wischnitzer-Bernstein (1885-1989), originally published in Berlin in 1935 as Symbole und Gestalten der jüdischen Kunst. The outbreak of the Second World War prevented the book from spreading, and its uncirculated print-run was almost entirely destroyed by the Nazis. The few surviving copies of the book that circulated among specialists, gained this highly innovative work on Jewish iconography a position of a classic study. The present English edition makes the legendary book by Rachel Wischnitzer-Bernstein available to wider audiences of international readers for the first time"--
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSymbols and forms in Jewish art
Place of PublicationKraków
PublisherIRSA
Pages173-206
ISBN (Print)838983135X, 9788389831354
StatePublished - 2022

Bibliographical note

"Original title: Symbole und Gestalten der jüdischen Kunst, Berlin-Schöneberg: Verlag Siegfried Scholem, 1935." -- Colophon.

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