“Sarah Bernhardt at the Jewish Museum” reviews the recent retrospective exhibition on the life and career of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), who created several enduring models of femininity, including templates for tempestuous stage actress, theatrical producer and self-promoter, sexual libertine, egotistical publicity hound, and sophisticated demimondaine. Establishing herself as the greatest stage tragidienne of France's high dramatic literature, Bernhardt played to the masses in boulevard melodramas and American vaudeville, and she established a separate career as a sculptor. She used the new media of photography, the phonograph, cinema, and advertising to imprint her persona and extend her fame. Bernhardt toyed with standards of bourgeois feminine respectability through gender noncomformity onstage and offstage, thereby carving out for herself a fresh space for behavior that in the post—World War I era defined the New Woman.