Explores the works of five major American Jewish artists: Jack Levine, George Segal, Audrey Flack, Larry Rivers, and R. B. Kitaj. Focuses on the use of imagery

Jewish themes in American art were not very visible until the last two decades, although many famous twentieth-century artists and critics were and are Jewish.

The old masters' new masters -- Was modernism Jewish? -- In the middle -- To have and have not.

The emancipation of Jews in Europe during the nineteenth century meant that for the first time they could participate in areas of secular life -- including esta