The Jewish engagement with photography

The engagement of Jews in photography, leaving an unmistakeable imprint of women and men of Jewish origins on photography’s history, is clearly perceivable in countless theoretical reflexions and photographic positions. Nonetheless, even in light of these facts, research regarding specific roles of Jews, and patterns of ethnic differentiation their reach within photography has up has, until recently, rarely been taken into account. This book is based on contributions made at a conference dedicated to this very aspect of photographic history held between the 29th and 30th of November 2012 at the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus in the city of Osnabrück. Its realization is the result of a cooperative effort between the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies of University College London and the Research Centre for Photography and Media at the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld.