Book Launch for Dr. Dana Smith: Jewish Art in Nazi Germany

The Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at KSC will be hosting a book launch event in celebration of Dr. Dana Smith's new book. This book provides a social and cultural history of Jewish art in Nazi Germany, with a focus on the Jewish artists, art critics, and audiences in Nazi Bavaria.

From the time of its conceptualization in the autumn of 1933 until its final curtain call in November 1938, the Jewish Cultural League in Bavaria sustained three departments: music, visual arts, and adult education. The Bavarian example steps outside the highly professional cultural milieu of Jewish Berlin, and instead looks at relatively unknown efforts of Bavarian Jewish artists as they used art to define what it now meant, to them, to be Jewish under Nazism.

Come hear from Dr. Smith and celebrate her publication! Light refreshments will be served.

This event is part of the Cohen Center calendar.