Spiro, M. (2019) Exhibiting Jewish culture in Postwar Britain: Glasgow's 1951 Festival of Jewish Arts. Shofar, 37(3), pp. 95-130. There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher’s version if you wish to cite from it. http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/180719/ Deposited on: 4 March 2019 Enlighten – Research publications by members of the University of Glasgow http://eprints.gla.ac.uk 1 Exhibiting Jewish Culture in Post-War Britain: Glasgow’s 1951 Festival of Jewish Arts Mia Spiro, University of Glasgow,
[email protected] Bio: Dr. Mia Spiro is Lecturer in Jewish Studies in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of Anti-Nazi Modernism: The Challenges of Resistance in 1930s Fiction (Northwestern University Press, 2013) and co-editor of Jewish Migration in Modern Times: The Case of Eastern Europe (Routlege, 2019), with Semyon Goldin and Scott Ury. Spiro has published widely on Jewish representation and responses to antisemitism in art and literature of the interwar period and in contemporary Holocaust fiction. She is co- investigator, with Dr. Hannah Holtschneider of the AHRC funded project Jewish Lives/Scottish Spaces. Abstract The Festival of Jewish Arts in Glasgow was the first and largest Jewish festival in Britain, conceived as a response to, and timed to coincide with, the Festival of Britain in 1951. Held at Glasgow’s McLellan Galleries on Sauchiehall Street from 4-25 February 1951, the event showcased works from over fifty internationally renowned Jewish artists, antiquities dating back from the 13th century, musical performances, films, lectures, a book display and a run of sell-out performances of S.