Description
Book SynopsisArs Judaica is an annual publication of the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University. It showcases the Jewish contribution to the visual arts and architecture from antiquity to the present from a variety of perspectives, including history, iconography, semiotics, psychology, sociology, and folklore. As such it is a valuable resource for art historians, collectors, curators, and all those interested in the visual arts.
Contributors: Matthew Baigell, Rutgers University of New Jersey, Batya Brutin, Beit Berl Academic College, Zofit, Warren Zev Harvey, Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Moshe Idel, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem; Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Sara Offenberg, Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University, Nils Roemer, University of Texas at Dallas, Debra Higgs Strickland, School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow, Annette Weber, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg
Volumes of Ars Judaica are distributed by the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization throughout the world, except Israel. Orders and enquiries from Israeli customers should be directed to:
Ars Judaica
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email ajudaica@mail.biu.ac.il
Table of ContentsEditors' Note
‘The Masorah is a Fence to the Torah’ Monumental Letters and Micrography in Medieval Ashkenazi Bibles ANNETTE WEBER
Visualization of Colours, 1: David ben Yehudah he-Hasid’s Kabbalistic Diagram MOSHE IDEL
The Boy from the Warsaw Ghetto as Holocaust Icon in Art BATYA BRUTIN
Robert Kirschbaum’s Art: Abstract, Intellectual, Spiritual MATTHEW BAIGELL
Book ReviewsDreaming of Michelangelo
Asher D. Biemann,
Dreaming of Michelangelo: Jewish Variations on a Modern Theme
NIELS ROEMER
The Jewishness of Christian Art
Herbert L. Kessler and David Nirenberg (eds),
Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism
DEBRA HIGGS STRICKLAND
Micrographic Midrash in Fourteenth-Century Barcelona
Dalia-Ruth Halperin,
Illuminating in Micrography: The Catalan Micrography Mahzor MS Heb. 806527 in the National Library of Israel
WARREN ZEV HARVEY
Former Synagogues and Host-Miracle Shrines in Germany and Austria
Mitchell B. Merback,
Pilgrimage and Pogrom: Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-Miracle Shrines of Germany and AustriaSARA OFFENBERG
