| Curators |
Gabriele Kohlbauer-Fritz, Sabine Bergler |
| Imprint |
Vienna, Austria, 2017. 259 pp., illustrations: 136 col., 136 b&w, 27 × 21.2 cm. German and English. |
| ISBN |
9783990501108 |
| Location |
Jüdisches Museum Wien (6 December 2017–13 May 2018) |
| Description |
The Russian revolution, its attraction to early-20th-century Jews, and its ultimate failure to produce a better world. The rise and fall of this utopian dream was examined from an Austrian Jewish perspective, through a variety of life stories, and with numerous testimonies from art, literature, film, theater, music, and documents. Monumental catalog with 15 essays, including: “The Dream of Paradise” (Danielle Spera), “ ‘Comrade Jew’ and the Jewish ‘bogeyman’ Anti-Semitic stereotypes by and against Communists” (Mario Keßler), “Yiddish and the radical Jewish workers’ movement in Vienna” (Thomas Soxberger), “Theater and Revolution in the Early Soviet Union—a Symbiosis?” (Barbara Lesák), and “Memories of a Promise: Russian-Jewish Artists between Internationalism and Cultural Identity” (Boros Groys). No itemized listing. |
| main keywords |
ANTISEMITIC IMAGES/OBJECTSBUNDPHOTOGRAPHSJEWISH ARTISTSRUSSIA/SOVIET UNIONVIENNAYIDDISH THEATER |
| minor keywords |
AustriaHaggadotHad GadyaHistorical photographsLissitzky, ElPostcardsSoldiers (Jewish) & related objectsTorah mantles |