Language:
English
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Remembering for the Future; Working Papers and Addenda
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1989) 1657-1671
Keywords:
Jesus Art
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History
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Jewish art 19th century
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Jewish art 20th century
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Christian art and symbolism 19th century
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Christian art and symbolism 20th century
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art
Abstract:
Discusses the widespread portrayal of victims of the Holocaust as Christian symbols of suffering. In the 19th century, Jewish artists used the image of the crucifixion of Jesus the Jew to condemn Christian persecution as a betrayal of Christ’s ideas and a form of killing Christ himself. In the same period, Christian artists began to use the crucifixion as an archetype for the suffering of modern man, especially in war. In the 1930s, German anti-fascist artists showed both Nazis and churchmen among the persecutors of Christ. After 1939 this imagery was widespread in the Nazi-occupied countries, but Christ was rarely identified as a Jew, except by Jewish artists, particularly Marc Chagall. After the liberation of the camps, the Passion was linked even more explicitly with Jewish martyrdom. Traces the postwar development of this imagery among Jewish and Christian artists.
Note:
Record created automatically from multi-article record # 000029997
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Appeared also in "Holocaust and Genocide Studies" 3,4 (1988) 457-481. Appeared in Hungarian as "Hit, etika és a holokauszt; a holokauszt krisztusi jelképei" in "Múlt és Jövő" 2-3 (2002) 121-137.
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