Prof. Maya Balakirsky-Katz

Publications:

BOOKS

Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation (Rutgers University Press, 2016).

The Visual Culture of Chabad (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Jews & Media: A Modern Relationship (In Progress).

EDITED VOLUMES

Revising Dreyfus (Brill Press, 2013).

REFEREED ARTICLES

“Animating Pushkin for the ‘Jewish War,’” Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture 11 (2018): 152-176.

“Evacuation Animation: Jewish Geographies and Sindbad the Sailor in Crimea,” Ars Judaica 13 (Spring 2017): 111-128.

“The Brumberg Sisters: The Fairy Grandmothers of Soviet Animation,” Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture 9 (2016): 1-15.

“Portraits from Vienna: The Rabbinical Subject and the Female Artist,” Modern Jewish Studies 15.1 (2016): 47-64.

“Tropical Russian Bears: Jews and Soviet Animation during the Cold War,” Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture 8 (2015): 1-25.

“Dressing Up: Religion and Ethnicity in Israeli National Dolls,” Religion & Gender 5.1 (2015): 71-90.

            Republished as “Vestirsi: Religione ed Etnia nelle Bambole nazionali di Israele,” in            Stefania Palmisano and Alberta Giori, eds. Women and Religion (Italy: Mimesis, 2016),            89-101.

“The De-Politicization of Israeli Political Cartoons,” Israel Studies 18.1 (2013): 1-30.

“A Rabbi, A Priest, and a Psychoanalyst: Religion in the Early Psychoanalytic Case History,” Contemporary Jewry 31.1 (2011): 3-24.

“Doll-Making and Making Money,” Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, vol. 5, no. 1 (2011): 118-122.

“Staging Protest: The New York Jewish Museum and the Soviet Jewry Movement,” American Jewish History (2010): 61-78.

“An Occupational Neurosis: A Psychoanalytic Case History of a Rabbi,” AJS Review 34.1 (April 2010): 1-31.

“Collecting the Exile: The Jewish National Movement in the USSR, 1967-1989,” Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture 3.1 (2009): 119-128.

“Trademarks of Faith: Chabad and Chanukah,” Modern Judaism (May 2009): 239-267.

“On The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (2008),” Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, vol. 6, no. 1 (2013): 152-156.

“On the Master-Disciple Relationship in Hasidic Visual Culture: The Life and Afterlife of Rebbe Portraits in Habad, 1798-2006,” Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture (Winter 2007): 55-79.

“Émile Zola in Caricature: The Cochonnerie of Naturalist Literature and the Judensau,” Jewish Social Studies 13.1 (2007): 110-135. 

“Photography vs. Caricature: “Footnotes on Manet’s Zola and Zola’s Manet,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 34.3 (Spring 2006): 323-337.

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Cartooning Citizen Collaboration: A 1949 Jewish War Film in Moscow,” Art in Jewish Society (Warsaw: Museum of the History of Polish Jewry, 2016), 255-291.

“Introduction: The Revision of Dreyfus in Historical Perspective,” Revising Dreyfus, ed. Maya Balakirsky Katz (Boston: Brill Press, 2013), 1-14.

“Henri-Gabriel Ibels, “Nineteenth-Century Blogger,” Revising Dreyfus, ed. Maya Balakirsky Katz (Boston: Brill Press, 2013), 79-198.

“Exhibiting Dreyfus in America: The Jewish Museum of New York and the Soviet Jewry Movement,” Revising Dreyfus, ed. Maya Balakirsky Katz (Boston: Brill Press, 2013), 359-384.

“Rebbishe Space: Pre-War Polish Photography of Hasidic Leaders,” Jewish Artists in Central-Eestern Europe from the 19^th century to the Second World War (Warsaw: DiG Press, 2010), 363-370.

“Avi-Yonah's Model of Second Temple Jerusalem and the Development of Israeli Visual Culture,” ed. Steven Fine, Visions of the Temple from Moses to the Messiah (New York: Brill Press and Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, 2011), 349-364.

Courses:

Art, Culture, and Hasidism

The Museum

Jews and Animation in the Soviet Union

The Dreyfus Affair

CV:

Education:

NJ INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYSIS, Fifth-Year Candidate in Psychoanalytic Training Program (projected date of course completion August 2019)

Bryn Mawr College, Ph.D., M.A.

Touro College, B.A., Valedictorian of Women’s Division

Research Interests:

Religion and Media

Psychoanalysis and Art

Russia and the Soviet Union