Mané-Katz: Jewishness and Modernity

Abstract

This article introduces Emmanuel Mané-Katz (1894–1962), a Jewish artist from Ukraine, who spent most of his life in Paris. The article discusses the problem of Judaism in art, how this problem was seen by the artists belonging to the Jewish School of Paris, and the relationship between Judaism and modernity in art, including Mané-Katz’s work.