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Article: Jewish Art in America: An Introduction.(Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists)(Book review)
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- American Jewish History
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- December 1, 2007
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Jewish Art in America: An Introduction. By Matthew Baigell. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. xxiv + 253 pp.
Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists. By Samantha Baskind. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. xvii + 323 pp.
Two new volumes attempt to provide a comprehensive, critical picture of Jewish artists and art in America from the eighteenth century to the present; each addresses the concept of Jewish identity from a broad point of view. Matthew Baigell is emeritus professor of art history at Rutgers University. His Jewish Art in America: An Introduction builds on his earlier books Jewish-American Artists and the Holocaust (1997) and American ...