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Article: Projecting Culture: Jewish Art Historians and the History of Art History.
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- June 22, 2000
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LET ME BEGIN MY DISCUSSION OF JEWISH ART HISTORIANS and the history of art history with an early essay by Salo Baron written in 1928 soon after his emigration to New York from Vienna. The essay, "Ghetto and Emancipation: Shall We Revise the Traditional View?" [1] In this essay, perhaps for the first time, Baron grapples with the problems of self-definition which European Jewry confronts in the face of modernity, surely a topic which came to Baron as a result of his experience in the complex context of fin-de-siecle Vienna. This society, often characterized by the extreme contrasts of the ideals of a Germanic liberalism and a virulent antisemitism endorsed by the ruling ...
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