b a r b a r a  k i r s h e n b l a t t - g i m b l e t t

University Professor
Department of Performance Studies
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
721 Broadwy, 6th fl
New York, NY 10003-6807

T: 212-998-1628 / F: 212-254-7885
bkg@nyu.edu / http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/web
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Selected Publications

Books

> They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust, with Mayer Kirshenblatt (University of California Press, 2007). NEW

> The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times, edited with Jonathan Karp (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008). NEW

> Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations, co-edited with Ivan Karp, Corinne Kratz et al. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006).

> Writing Modern Jewish History: Essays in Honor of Salo W. Baron (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), editor and contributor. Introduction.  Winner of the 2006 National Jewish Book Award.

> Art from Start to Finish: Jazz, Painting, Writing, and other Improvisations, co-edited with Howard Becker and Rob Faulkner (University of Chicago Press, 2005).

> Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998). Reviews: Museum Anthropology; Journal of American History; Journal of American Folklore; Sh'ma.com; H-Net Reviews.

> Image Before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland Before the Holocaust, with Lucjan Dobroszycki (New York: Schocken, reissue 1995).

> Fabric of Jewish Life: Textiles from the Jewish Museum Collection (New York: The Jewish Museum, 1977), with Cissy Grossman.

> Getting Comfortable in New York: The American Jewish Home, 1880-1950. Eds. Susan L. Braunstein and Jenna Weissman Joselit (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991), with Irving Howe and Jenna Weissman Joselit.

> The Israel Experience: Studies in Youth Travel and Jewish Identity (Jerusalem: Studio Kavgraph, 2002), with Harvey Goldberg and Samuel Heilman.

> Authoring Lives (Bhubaneswar, India: Mayur Publications, 1992).

> Speech Play: Research and Resources for Linguistic Creativity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976), editor and contributor.

> The Field of Yiddish: Studies in Yiddish Language, Folklore, and Literature. Fifth Collection (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press/YIVO, New York, 1993), co-edited with David Goldberg, Marvin I. Herzog, and Dan Miron.

> The Field of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Folklore, and Literature. Fourth Collection (Philadelphia: ISHI.1980), co-edited with Marvin I. Herzog, Dan Miron, and Ruth Wisse.

Articles

Museums/Heritage/Tourism/World's Fairs
> Intangible Heritage as Metacultural Production
> From Ethnology to Heritage: The Role of the Museum
> The Museum--A Refuge for Utopian Thought
> Performing the State: The Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, 1919/1940 NEW
> World Heritage and Cultural Economics
> The Dematerialization of Culture and the De-Accessioning of Museum Collections
> Museum as Catalyst
> Performing Knowledge
> Kodak Moments, Flashbulb Memories: Reflections on 9/11
> The Ethnographic Burlesque
> Reflections: Exhibiting the Other
> Reflections on Spoleto's "Evoking History," June 2001 and cover
> Theorizing Heritage
> Afterlives
> On Difference
> Maasai on the Lawn (with Edward M. Bruner)
> Tourist Studies
> Mistaken Dichotomies
> Reflections on Cultural Brokerage in the United States and Germany
> Making a Place in the World: Jews and the Holy Land at World's Fairs
> Learning from Ethnography: Reflections on the Nature and Efficacy of Youth Tours to Israel
> Common Coin
> Making Difference
> Folklore's Crisis
> New York Favorites

Jewish
> The Corporeal Turn
> Introduction,
> Introduction, Writing Modern Jewish History: Essays in Honor of Salo W. Baron  NEW
> The Modiya Project: An Experiment in Research Centered Pedagogy
> Jews/Media/Religion: Mapping a Field, Building a Resource (AJS Perspectives, spring 2005)
> Participatory Journalism (Sh'ma June 2005)
> The "New Jews": Reflections on Emerging Cultural Practices
> The Moral Sublime: Jewish Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century America NEW
> Introduction, The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times, with Jonathan Karp NEW
> Performing the State: The Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, 1919/1940 NEW
> Making a Place in the World: Jews and the Holy Land at World's Fairs
> Sounds of Sensibility (on klezmer music)
> Introduction, Life Is with People: The Culture of the Shtetl
> Imagining Europe: The Popular Arts of American Jewish Ethnography
> Learning from Ethnography: Reflections on the Nature and Efficacy of Youth Tours to Israel
> Spaces of Dispersal
> Kitchen Judaism
> The Kosher Gourmet in the Nineteenth-Century Kitchen
> The Moral Sublime: The Temple Emanuel Fair and Its Cookbook, Denver, 1888
> Di folkloristik: A Good Yiddish Word
> The Cut That Binds: The Western Ashkenazic Torah Binder as Nexus Between Torah and Circumcision
> Objects of Memory: Material Culture as Life Review
> Problems in the Early History of Jewish Folkloristics
> "Contraband:" Performance, Text and Analysis of a "Purim-Shpil"

Aesthetics of Everyday Life
> Kodak Moments, Flashbulb Memories: Reflections on 9/11
> The Electronic Vernacular
> The Future of Folklore Studies in America: The Urban Frontier
> The Aesthetics of Everyday Life, Conversations Before the End of Time
> An accessible aesthetic: the role of folk arts and the folk artist in the curriculum

Art
> "This Is a Stone from the Endless Beach": Max Gimblett Interviewed by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

Performance Studies
> Performance Studies
> What's Wrong With These Terms? A Conversation with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Diana Taylor

Food
> Playing to the Senses: Food as a Performance Medium
> Making Sense of Performance: The Table and the Stage
> Foreword, Culinary Tourism
> Kitchen Judaism
> The Moral Sublime: The Temple Emanuel Fair and Its Cookbook, Denver, 1888
> The Kosher Gourmet in the Nineteenth-Century Kitchen
> Alicia Rios: Tailor of the Body's Interior
> Messages in a Bottle
> Edible Art
> Dragon Cucumber/Tsukemono Fair
> Culture Ingested: On the Indigenization of Phillipine Food

Mayer Kirshenblatt, "Cracow Wedding," Purim play, Opatów 1930s. Acrylic on canvas, Toronto, 1990s.

Press Kit
> Resume
> Photo 1: jpg / tif Credit: Frédéric Brenner. Photo 2: jpg. Photo 3: small/large Credit: Frédéric Brenner.
> List of publications
> Curriculum vitae

Interviews
> Performance Studies play
> Conversations Before the End of Time
> Tourist Studies
> Museum International
> NPR

Lectures
> Museum of the History of Polish Jews NYU (11/7/07). play. NEW

Projects
>Modiya play (Working Group on Jews, Media, and Culture)
> Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Leader of Core Exhibition Development Team).

Symposia / Conferences / Lectures
> 2005 Nemer lecture, USC
> American Jewish Icons: 350th Anniversary of Jewish Life in America
> Rejewvenation: The Futures of Jewish Culture
> The Relational Museum
> Les faiseurs de musées
> Museum of the History of Polish Jews
> Visual Culture and Jewish Identity
> Van Alen: Variable City
> Mediating Anne Frank
> SIEF ( Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore)
> Cookbooks and Archives
> Storytelling in Performance
> Museums of Tomorrow
> Motion Studies: Formation of the Everyday
> Reimagining Museums for New Art
> Material Culture: Habitats and Values
> Presenting History: Museums in a Democratic Society
> World Cultures Report
> CLAL's Jewish Public Forum
> Museutopia
> Museums and Global Public Spheres
> SSRC Program on the Arts
> Museums of Modern Science
> Alledaags is niet gewoon
> Museum 2000
> Popular and Mass Culture
> Towards a New Urbanism
> Gathering/Place: Folklore, Aesthetic Ecologies, and the Public Domain
> Second Nature: Vernacular Systems of Understanding
> SSRC Words in Motion
> 'Race', Nation, Aesthetics, and the Fabrication of Modernities
> Arts and Citizenship
> Garden of Eden
> Folklore, Heritage Politcs, and Ethnic Diversity
> International Theatre Academy

In the news
> KlezKanada 2004
> National Foundation of Jewish Culture
> Modern Jewry and the Arts
> Alledaags is niet gewoon
> Scoop New Zealand
> Spoleto USA 2001
> Voice Over
> University of Pennsylvania
> Council on American Jewish Museums
> Exhibiting the Other

Editorial / Advisory Boards
Books
> Art from Start to Finish
> Museum Frictions: Public Cultures, Global Transformations
> The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times
> Jews in Eastern Europe: The YIVOEncyclopedia
> Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
Journals
> TDR The Drama Review: Journal of Performance Studies
> Text and Performance Quarterly
> Tourist Studies
> Museum and Society
> Journal of the History of Collections
> American Ethnologist
> Journal of Folklore Research
> Gastronomica
> Senses & Society
Book Series
> California Studies in Food and Culture
> Jewish Studies: Folklore and Ethnography
Projects
>Reboot Poll
Institutions
> Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
> City Lore: Center for Urban Folk Culture
> Museum of Jurassic Technology
> Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food, and the Arts
> International Center for Advanced Studies, NYU

Syllabi
> Performance Studies Issues and Methods 2000,1999, 1998, 1997
> Aesthetics of Everyday Life 2000
> Dissertation Proposal 2000

Image Before My Eyes, 90 mins. feature documentary film/video (1981). Reissued on DVD in 2006.

Updated 11 /10/07