EMILY D. BILSKI
POSITIONS HELD
1993 - present Adjunct Curator, The Jewish Museum, New York
2000 - present Director, The Adi Foundation, Jerusalem
2004 Visiting Lecturer, The Helmut Kohl Center for European Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1994 - 2000 Consulting Curator, Beth Hatefutsoth, The Nahum Goldman Museum of The Jewish Diaspora,
Ramat Aviv
1989 - 1993 Project Director and Department Head, The Core Exhibition (new permanent exhibition:
Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey), The Jewish Museum, New York
1985 - 1993 Associate Curator, Fine Arts, The Jewish Museum
1982 - 1985 Assistant Curator, Judaica, The Jewish Museum
1980 - 1982 Research Assistant, The Jewish Museum
1978 - 1980 Curatorial Assistant, The Jewish Museum
1978 Intern, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Department of European Paintings
1974 -1977 Assistant, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (part-time) Central Catalogue Department
CONSULTING
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam
PUBLICATIONS
Objects of the Spirit: Ritual and the Art of Tobi Kahn, Hudson Hills Press, Manchester, Vermont and New York, 2004.
Der Koscherstempel: Jüdische Themen im Werk von Max Liebermann. In: Das Recht des Bildes: Jüdische Perspektiven in der modernen Kunst. Hg. v. H. G. Golinski / S. Hiekisch-Picard, Museum Bochum / Edition Braus, 2003, pp. 136-147.
Borders of Sanctity in Art, Society and Jewish Thought,[Hebrew]. Co-editor with Avigdor Shinan, Keter Press and The Adi Foundation, Jerusalem, 2003.
Borders of Sanctity and the Sanctity of Borders: Artists’ Perspectives [Hebrew]. In: Borders of Sanctity in Art, Society and Jewish Thought, pp. 172-183 (see above).
Jüdische Identität und Großstadt: Symbolismus im Werk von Lesser Ury. In: Lesser Ury. Bilder der Bibel / Der Malerradierer. Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin / Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum. Jüdische Verlagsanstalt Berlin, Berlin, 2002, pp. 25-41.
Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture 1890-1918, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999. (Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for History).
Denkbild Das Verborgene: The ‘Remembrance and Renewal’ Paintings of Louise Fishman. In: Denkbild Ellipse. Jüdische Identität in Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft. Hg. Martin R. Depner / Pablo A. Schneider, Evangelische Akademie Loccum, Rehburg-Loccum, 1997, pp. 11-30.
The Jewish Museum, New York, Scala Books, London, 1993.
Carol Hamoy - Voices, Ceres Gallery, New York, 1992.
Art During the Holocaust. In: Kunst und Holocaust. Bildliche Zeugen vom Ende der westlichen Kultur. Hg. D. Hoffmann / K. Ermert, Evangelische Akademie Loccum, Rehburg-Loccum, 1990, pp. 29-72.
Michael David: From Doppelgänger Toward Entelechy; Michael David: Six Paintings. Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas, 1990.
War, Resistance and Politics: Dusseldorf Artists 1910-1945, The Jewish Museum, exhibition brochure, 1990.
Golem! Danger, Deliverance and Art. The Jewish Museum, New York, 1988.
The Art of the Jewish Museum. In: The Seminary at 100. Reflections on the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Conservative Movement, ed. N.B. Cardin and D.W. Silverman, The Rabbinical Assembly, New York, 1987.
Contributor: Treasures of the Jewish Museum, Universe Books, New York, 1986.
Art and Exile: Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944, The Jewish Museum, New York, 1985.
Co-author: The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collections, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service/Summit Books, New York, 1983.
Co-author: A Tale of Two Cities: Jewish Life in Frankfurt and Istanbul 1750-1870, The Jewish Museum, New York, 1982.
Contributor: Renaissance and Baroque Drawings from the Collection of John and Alice Steiner, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977.
MAJOR EXHIBITIONS
Curator:
The Power of Conversation: Jewish Women and Their Salons, in preparation for The Jewish Museum, New York, February 2005 and The McMullen Museum, Boston College, September 2005.
Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture 1890-1918, Nov. 15, 1999-April 23, 2000, The Jewish Museum, New York
The New World Theater, renovation of portion of the permanent exhibition in collaboration with Robert Wilson, Beth Hatefutsoth; in preparation.
Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey. Permanent exhibition at The Jewish Museum, New York, opened June 1993.
War, Resistance and Politics: Dusseldorf Artists 1910-1945, March 11-May 23, 1990.
Golem! Danger, Deliverance and Art, November 20, 1988-April 2, 1989.
Art and Exile: Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944), April 15-August 4, 1985.
Visions of the Bible: Prints from the Daniel M. Friedenberg Collection, March-August 1981.
Ceremonial Art from the Tobe Pascher Workshop, Fall, 1979.
Arie Ofir: Contemporary Judaica, Spring 1979.
Co-Curator: The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collection, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, November 8, 1983-July 1985.
A Tale of Two Cities: Jewish Life in Frankfurt and Istanbul 1750-1870, September 20, 1982-December 1983.
Research Assistant: Artists of Israel: 1920-1980, February 19-May 17, 1981.
Danzig 1939: Treasures of A Destroyed Community, March 25-August 17, 1980.
Seventy-Five Years of Collecting: Highlights, February 1980 - February 1981.
EDUCATION
1980-1984 Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
1978 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Harvard University, Honors: Summa Cum Laude; Phi Beta Kappa;
Thesis: Aspects of the Stylistic Development of Gustav Klimt 1898 - 1908
LANGUAGES
English, German, Hebrew, French