The Lives of Jewish Things

Name: The Lives of Jewish Things
Brand: WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Collecting and Curating Material Culture

By: Gabrielle Anna Berlinger (Editor), Ruth von Bernuth (Editor)

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Hardcover | 28 September 2025

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334 Pages

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22.86 x 15.88 x 3.18

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Exploring the people and contexts that imbue Jewish material culture with its meaning.

In museums, synagogues, antique stores, and personal collections, Jewish objects are gathered, studied, and passed down as material representations of a culture and faith. What defines these items as "Jewish," and how does an item acquire or lose this characteristic throughout its life? Drawing from material culture studies, folklore studies, and curatorial perspectives, this collection aims to answer these questions and reveal the life histories of Jewish things. Essays consider assemblages ranging from Holocaust ephemera to religious relics and pieces of art. Each time these materials cross geographic, cultural, or social borders, their Jewishness is redefined through new dialogues about maker and user, buyer and seller, insider and outsider. Each contributor's insight builds bridges between curators, private collectors, scholars, and archivists whose diverse perspectives inform a growing conversation in folklore, religion, and Jewish studies that places material culture at the heart of Jewish cultural and historical narratives. Tracing the paths of Jewish things across time, place, and culture, this collection reveals complex stories of individual and collective struggles to survive.

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