This online workshop series seeks to explore the significance of dress in Jewish history through engagement with and exploration of visual sources. Scholars interested in Jewish history have emphasised the importance of cultural practices as an expression of belonging and identification across broad time periods. A few of them have also fruitfully explored the significance of dress and visual representations. However, studies that integrate these different lines of inquiry with an explicit focus on visual representations of Jewish dress and the visual creation of notions of ‘Jewishness’ through dress are scarce. Organised by Svenja Bethke (Hebrew University of Jerusalem/University of Leicester) and Gil Pasternak (De Montfort University Leicester), the workshop series Picturing Jewish Dress seeks to integrate these impulses across a broad historical timeframe by exploring the crucial role played by dress in Jewish history through engagement with and exploration of visual sources.
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This online workshop series seeks to explore the significance of dress in Jewish history through engagement with and exploration of visual sources. Scholars interested in Jewish history have emphasised the importance of cultural practices as an expression of belonging and identification across broad time periods. A few of them have also fruitfully explored the significance of dress and visual representations. However, studies that integrate these different lines of inquiry with an explicit focus on visual representations of Jewish dress and the visual creation of notions of ‘Jewishness’ through dress are scarce. Organised by Svenja Bethke (Hebrew University of Jerusalem/University of Leicester) and Gil Pasternak (De Montfort University Leicester), the workshop series Picturing Jewish Dress seeks to integrate these impulses across a broad historical timeframe by exploring the crucial role played by dress in Jewish history through engagement with and exploration of visual sources.