Introduction [Fragile images: Jews and art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945 ]

Abstract

In "Fragile Images: Jews and Art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945", Mirjam Rajner traces the lives and creativity of seven artists of Jewish origin. The artists - Moša Pijade, Daniel Kabiljo, Adolf Weiller, Bora Baruh, Daniel Ozmo, Ivan Rein and Johanna Lutzer - were characterized by multiple and changeable identities: nationalist and universalist, Zionist and Sephardic, communist and cosmopolitan. These fluctuating identities found expression in their art, as did their wartime fate as refugees, camp inmates, partisans and survivors. A wealth of newly-discovered images, diaries and letters highlight this little-known aspect of Jewish life and art in Yugoslavia, illuminating a turbulent era that included integration into a newly-founded country, the catastrophe of the Holocaust, and renewal in its aftermath.

U delu „Krhke slike: Jevreji i umetnost u Jugoslaviji, 1918-1945“ Mirjam Rajner prati život i stvaralaštvo sedam umetnika jevrejskog porekla. Umetnici - Moša Pijade, Danijel Kabiljo, Adolf Vajler, Bora Baruh, Danijel Ozmo, Ivan Rajn i Johana Lucer - odlikovali su se višestrukim i promenljivim identitetima: nacionalistički i univerzalistički, cionistički i sefardski, komunistički i kosmopolitski. Ovi promenljivi identiteti našli su izraz u njihovoj umetnosti, kao i njihova ratna sudbina izbeglica, logoraša, partizana i preživelih. Mnoštvo novootkrivenih slika, dnevnika i pisama naglašava ovaj malo poznati aspekt jevrejskog života i umetnosti u Jugoslaviji, osvetljavajući turbulentno doba koje je uključivalo integraciju u novoosnovanu zemlju, katastrofu Holokausta i obnovu nakon njega.