Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Images; a Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture
Angaben zur Quelle:
12 (2019) 151-179
Schlagwort(e):
Jews Social life and customs 20th century
;
Photography History 20th century
;
Jewish photographers
;
Jews Pictorial works
;
Synagogues Pictorial works
;
Jewish art and symbolism Pictorial works
;
Poland History 1918-1945
Kurzfassung:
This article studies the photographic methods that the Poland-based Landkentnish (Yiddish for “knowing the land”) movement employed in the interwar period to promote Jewish culture and Poland as a home for the Jewish people. The movement wished to increase the exposure of Polish Jews to Poland’s diverse landscapes in order to strengthen their connection to the Polish land. It also aspired to create archives of local Jewish cultural heritage to attest to the long history of Polish Jewry and to the contributions that Jews had made to Polish society. After tracing the movement’s origins, the article explores the concentrated efforts that it made to provide its members with photographic knowledge and education. Analyzing the photographic sources and resources that the movement created, the exhibitions that it put on display, and its employment of snapshots, the article demonstrates how photography assisted the movement in realizing its key aims and objectives.
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