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By Matthew Baigell

During this first book-length examine of Jewish paintings in the US, Matthew Baigell explores works from the early settlers of the US to the current. It concentrates on exploring and interpreting Jewish material hired by way of artists as they illustrated elements in their non secular and ethnic historical past and as they spoke back to significant occasions over the many years, together with the good Migration, the good melancholy, the Holocaust, and the founding of the kingdom of Israel, in addition to the dispersal of Jewish artists round the nation and the increase of feminism and spiritualism within the late-twentieth century.

Subjects contain style scenes of "the Jewish street," spiritual and non secular subject matters derived from the Bible and the Kabbalah, and photographs that list the artists' participation in and witnessing of significant occasions of their lifetimes. the writer additionally considers the customarily requested questions: Is there a Jewish artwork? and, Is there a unmarried Jewish event?

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Washington or the Back-to-Africa movement of Bishop Henry McNeil Turner. ' The newly created industrial complex also attracted significant numbers of immigrants from Northern mining communities or directly from Europe. By 1890 first- and second-generation immigrants, particularly Italians, Scots, Germans, and Britons, comprised nearly one-fourth of Birmingham's white population-a substantial number for the urban South. More striking is the fact that in 1910 one-half oE the coal, iron, and steel workers were immigrants, many of whom had been skilled colliers and metal workers before moving South.

7 The black elite could not always find complete satisfaction in material wealth when they, too, were denied basic democratic rights. Some black middle-class spokesmen searched for autonomous alternatives to Jim Crow within and without the region. African colonization and other emigration schemes were proposed by blacks and white liberals during the late nineteenth century, and in Oxford, Alabama, in 1899, a group of leading black citizens established one of the nation's first all-black towns. In virtually every case of black political assertion, however, the white status quo only recognized as spokespersons for the Afri~an~American community the black elite, whether followers of the accommodationist teachings of Booker T.

Excluding the greater Birmingham area and the surrounding industrial suburbs, the central core of black residence settled along the Twentieth Street axis from the southern section of the city toward the railroad tracks which ran through d o ~ n t o w n . ~ Not all blacks toiled in the mines, mills, kitchens, and streets of Birmingham. A tiny but influential black elite established a flourishing business district along Eighteenth Street in the heart of downtown. As early as 1890, the Reverend W.

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