Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Jewish
museums
and
their
stakeholders
city,
state,
donors,
Jewish
communities
(local,
national,
international),
and
audiences
(local,
Jewish,
and
international).
Poetics
and
politics
of
exhibitions
old
and
new
approaches
to
exhibitions
and
their
responsibility
to
those
whose
story
they
tell.
Collections:
how
they
were
formed,
to
whom
the
objects
belong,
and
how
museums
deal
with
issues
of
provenance
and
restitution.
Museum
architecture
and
location
site
specificity,
new
architecture,
adaptation
of
pre-existing
buildings,
with
or
without
a
connection
to
Jewish
history.
Relation
of
Jewish
museums
to
networks
of
Jewish
heritage
sites
and
routes
linked
to
religious
pilgrimage,
Holocaust
commemoration,
and
genealogical
quests.
To initiate submission, please send a proposal, consisting of TITLE, ABSTRACT, and
AUTHORS BIO to the editors at brayndl@gmail.com and at gershenson@judnea.umass.edu
Proposal must be received via email no later than March 30, 2014. Approved proposals will
advance to the next stage and will be expected to be submitted as completed articles in
January, 2015. We encourage prospective authors to contact the editors with questions about
submissions.
This special issue will also include book reviews on related subjects. Call for book reviews
will be circulated separately.