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Table of Contents:

• The power of conversation : Jewish women and their salons / Emily D. Bilski and Emily Braun
• A dream of living together : Jewish women in Berlin around 1800 / Barbara Hahn
• Music, femininity, and Jewish identity : The tradition and legacy of the salon / Leon Botstein
• The salon and literary modernism : Proust, Wilde, Stein / Lucia Re
• Biographies / Shira Brisman.

Contributors:

Bilski, Emily D., 1956-

Braun, Emily, 1957-

Botstein, Leon

Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Jewish women — Europe, Western — Intellectual life — Exhibitions

Jewish women — Germany — Berlin — Intellectual life — Exhibitions

Salons — Europe, Western — History — 19th century — Exhibitions

Salons — Germany — Berlin — History — 19th century — Exhibitions

Upper class — Europe, Western — History — 19th century — Exhibitions

Europe, Western — Intellectual life — 19th century — Exhibitions

1800-1899

Jewish women

Salons

Upper class

Intellectual life

Jewish women — Intellectual life

Western Europe

Germany — Berlin

Genres:

History

Exhibition catalogs

General Notes:

Catalog of the exhibition, The power of conversation : Jewish women and their salons, held at The Jewish Museum, New York, March 4-July 10, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-256) and index.

Physical Description:

xiii, 266 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Call Numbers:

DS135.E83 J58 2005

ISBNs:

0300103859 (clothbound, alk. paper)
9780300103854 (clothbound, alk. paper)
030010846X (paperbound, alk. paper)
9780300108460 (paperbound, alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2004023218

OCLC Numbers:

56671986