The Invisible Jewish Budapest: Metropolitan Culture at the Fin de Siècle by Mary Gluck Sale Books contemporary art

contemporary art

a translator and writer whose work has been recognized by the Canada Council for the Arts and by the Ontario Arts Council

'is: Yiddish: what was it

Fishman's unique photographs from the 1970s and 1980s as well as photos taken by him in the last decade form the Re-Generation exhibition presented at the Galicia Jewish Museum

The Invisible Jewish Budapest: Metropolitan Culture at the Fin de Siècle by Mary Gluck Sale Books contemporary artNearly a quarter of the population of Budapest at the fin de sicle was Jewish. This demographic fact appears startling primarily because of its virtual absence from canonical histories of the city. Famed for its cosmopolitan culture and vibrant nightlife, Budapest owed much to its Jewish population. Indeed, it was Jews who helped shape the city's complex urban modernity between 1867 and 1914. Yet these contributions were often unacknowledged, leading