Creator Bio
Martin Jay
b. 1944
Born in New York City, Martin Jay is a scholar of European intellectual history and visual culture. He graduated from Union College and Harvard University, and is Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley. Jay writes for Salmagundi and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Herbert Baxter Adams Award, and the Aby Warburg Foundation Science Prize.
Content by Martin Jay
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Force Fields: Between Intellectual History and Cultural Critique
Leaving the museum, our small party walked the fifteen minutes out of the center of town it takes to get to the business end of Theresienstadt, the so-called “Small Fortress.” First constructed in the…