SELECTED ACADEMIC ARTICLES

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Book cover titled 'Remembrance and Renewal: American Artists and the Holocaust 1940-1970' featuring a black and white abstract illustration of people.

“Jewish American Artists Remember the Holocaust, 1970-2000”

In Jennifer McComas, ed., Remembrance and Renewal: American Artists and the Holocaust, 1940-1970, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025), 147-67.

Book cover titled 'Toward a Jewish American Art History' by Samantha Baskind with subtitle 'A Case Study of Moses Jacob Ezekiel's Religious Liberty,' part of series 'Center for Judaic Studies' at University of Michigan, featuring decorative red and brown patterns.

“Toward a Jewish American Art History: A Case Study of Moses Jacob Ezekiel’s Religious Liberty”

34th David Belin lecture in American Jewish Affairs, 2025, 40 pgs.

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Cover image with an impressionist-style painting of a seated woman in a long dress. The background is textured with muted colors. Text on the cover reads 'famm Female Artists of the Maugins Museum, France.'

“Figuring the Figurative: Women Artists at FAAM”

In FAMM: Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, France (London: Merrell Publishers, 2025), 73-103.

Book cover titled 'Learning to Breathe Free: Jews in Gilded Age America,' featuring a gold medal with a profile of a young person, and the years 1949 and 1887 engraved on it.

“Jewish Artists Begin to Make Their Mark”

In Adam D. Mendelsohn and Jonathan D. Sarna, eds., Yearning to Breathe Free: Jews in Gilded Age America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022), 109-56.

Close-up of a sculpture of a seated woman with her eyes closed and hands crossed over her chest, in an art museum.

“Moses Jacob Ezekiel, Eve Hearing the Voice”

MAVCOR Journal 5, no. 1 (2021), 8 pgs.

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Book cover titled 'Cleveland Jews and the Making of a Midwestern Community,' edited by Sean Martin and John J. Grabowski, featuring a black-and-white photo of three people reading a book together in a library.

“Everyman vs. Superman: Harvey Pekar, Comics, and Cleveland”

In Sean Martin and John Grabowski, eds., Cleveland Jews and the Making of a Midwestern Community (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020), 80-101.

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A portrait painting of a man with large ears, wearing a suit, a tie, a green mask, and golden horns against a red background.

“Of Masks, Mockery, and Modernism: Alexander Z. Kruse's Self-Portrait of an Art Critic”

Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 5, no. 2 (2019): 1-25.

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A detailed black-and-white illustration depicting various religious and cultural scenes and figures from different world religions, organized in a tableau format, with a large tree in the center and a pagoda in the background.

“Judging a Book by its Cover: Bernard Picart's Jews and Art History”

Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 15, no. 1 (2015): 1-23.

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A hyper-realistic mural of a man in a trench coat and fedora holding a vintage identification card. The background shows a corner of a building with peeling paint, a leafless tree, dark clouds, and birds flying.

“Looking Jewish: The State of Research on Modern Jewish Art”

Jewish Quarterly Review 101, no. 4 (2011): 631-52.

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A person dressed in a suit walking at night carrying two strings of bagels, one in each hand.

“Weegee’s Jewishness”

History of Photography 34, no. 1 (2010): 60-78.

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Illustration of a surreal scene with a large, leafless tree, various animal characters, and a colorful sky, referencing Peter Blume's 'Nature and Metamorphosis'.

“Peter Blume’s Jewish Experience”

In Robert Cozzolino, ed., Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), 145-63.

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A colorful collage featuring a black and white photo of five men in the background, surrounded by various objects including a butterfly, a red candle, a pineapple, a slice of cake, a string of pearls, a pocket watch, a blue glass orb, and a red rose, with a patch of text at the bottom.

“’Everybody thought I was Catholic’: Audrey Flack’s Jewish Identity”

American Art 23, no. 1 (2009): 104-115.

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