| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.1

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Michael Berkowitz. The Jewish Self-Image in the West. New York: New York University Press. 2000. Pp. 176. $28.00.

Whatever this book is about, it is not about the Jewish self-image in the West. The author tells us what he thinks the book is about, each time with slight variations: "This book investigates modern Jewish iconography, especially pertaining to the Jewish experience with political movements in the United States, Britain and Western Europe from 1881 to 1939" (p. 11); "This study aspires towards the reconstruction of that internal Jewish visual discourse, as it developed in the West, over a half-century" (p. 14); "This study looks at Jews as creators and purveyors of culture, and as designers of their own paradigms in producing alternatives to the dominant discourse of politics and nation" (p. 15); "my aim is to illuminate the historical processes that are accessible through Jews' public self-representation over a period of several decades" (p. 19); "The study that follows is based upon a selection of what I have determined to be representative photographic and graphic images that for the most part correspond to real persons and events" (p. 19). . . .

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