Jewish women and their salons : the power of conversation / Power of conversation [curated by] Emily D. Bilski and Emily Braun ; with contributions by Leon Botstein ... [et al]. - New York : New Haven : Jewish Museum under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ; Yale University Press, c2005. - xiii, 266 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.

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.

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.

0300103859 (clothbound : alk. paper) 9780300103854

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Jewish women--Intellectual life--Europe, Western--Exhibitions.
Jewish women--Intellectual life--Germany--Berlin--Exhibitions.
Salons--History--Europe, Western--19th century--Exhibitions.
Salons--History--Germany--Berlin--19th century--Exhibitions.
Upper class--History--Europe, Western--19th century--Exhibitions.


Europe, Western--Intellectual life--19th century--Exhibitions.

DS135.E83 / J58 2005

305.488

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