Social Concern and Left Politics in Jewish American Art: 1880-1940

by Matthew Baigell

Book Overview

This book explores the important and barely examined connections between the humanitarian concerns embedded in the religious heritage of Jewish American artists and the appeal of radical political causes between the years of the Great Migration from Eastern Europe in the 1880s and the beginning of World War II in the late 1930s. Visual material consists primarily of political cartoons published in leftwing Yiddish- and English-language newspapers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815633963
• ISBN13: 9780815633969
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"