RE-DRESSING MIRIAM: 19th CENTURY ARTISTIC JEWISH WOMEN

About the Book

This book aims at exploring the reciprocal interaction between art and culture, and specifically how the literary and artistic images of mid nineteenth-century Jewish female artists are interwoven with their factual lifestyles, self-representations, and the reception of their work. By analyzing the reciprocal relationship between the dominant culture in which they are embedded and their work, I show how the literary and artistic images of Jewish female artists (as depicted by Jews and non-Jews) are interwoven with the factual lifestyles, culture, and self-representations of real Jewish artists. Moreover, my research reveals how those representations are related to society’s centuries-long ambivalence towards Jews, and specifically towards Jewish female artists, as it is revealed in literature and art.

About the Author

Dr. Irina Rabinovich received her Ph.D. in American and British Literature from Bar-Ilan University, Israel, in 2007. She lives and works in Israel. Her research mainly deals with the reciprocal interaction between art and culture, and specifically how the literary and artistic images of mid nineteenth-century Jewish female artists are interwoven with their factual lifestyles, self-representations, and the reception of their work. Over the last sixteen years she has been involved in adult education in several TESOL areas, such as coordinating an EAP program in an academic framework and teaching EAP (English for Academic Purposes) at the post-graduate and undergraduate levels.