Catalog of Catalogs Online, A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica

Impressions from North Africa in Orientalist Drawings and Photographs. Gifts from Gérard Lévy and Philippe Cohen. d’ Afrique du Nord. Dessins et photographies orientalistes. Dons de Gérard Lévy and Philippe Cohen
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Editors

Nissan N. Perez, Shlomit Steinberg.

Imprint

Jerusalem, Israel, 2012. 152 pp., illustrations: 129 col., 26 × 19 cm. English and French.

ISBN

9789652784032

Location

Israel Museum (29 May–8 September 2012)

Description

A single catalog covering two exhibitions held at the Israel Museum, both dealing with depictions of North African Jewry from the mid-19th C until the 1920’s. The first section relates to the 2007 exhibition “Out of North Africa: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Gérard Lévy Collection” (Nissan N. Perez, curator, 27 March–30 June 2007), which showed how North African Jews were portrayed in Orientalist photographs. The second part accompanies the current exhibition “The Jews of Tangier: Orientalist Drawings by Dehodencq” (Shlomit Steinberg, curator), which presented the same subject through the graphic works of a little-known French Romantic painter, Alfred Dehodencq. The catalog’s three articles discuss “The Jewish Maghreb: From Fantasy to Documentation” (Nissan N. Perez), “Out of North Africa” (Alia Ben Ami), and “Labor of Love: Alfred Dehodencq in Tangier” (Shlomit Steinberg). No itemized listing.

main keywords

COSTUME
DRAWINGS/SKETCHES
NORTH AFRICA
PHOTOGRAPHS
PORTRAITS
TANGIER
TUNISIA

minor keywords

Historical photographs
Morocco
Paintings, Jewish figures
Synagogues, Algeria

Cite this page
“Impressions from North Africa in Orientalist Drawings and Photographs. Gifts from Gérard Lévy and Philippe Cohen. d’ Afrique du Nord. Dessins et photographies orientalistes. Dons de Gérard Lévy and Philippe Cohen”, in: Catalog of Catalogs Online, A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica. Consulted online on 30 May 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004444522_COCO_CC2072>
First published online: 2019



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