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: Zsofia Buda, Andreina Contessa, Monika Czekanowska-Gutman, Basema Hamarneh, Moshe Idel, Sharman Kadish, Reuven Kiperwasser, Rudolf Klein, Susan Nashman Fraiman, Ido Noy, Larry Silver, Ronit Sorek, Sharon Weiser-Ferguson
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Ars Judaica
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Table of ContentsEditors' Note
Sacrifice in Balance: The Akedah—An Eschatological Perspective ZSOFIA BUDA
The Fleuron Crown from Neumarkt in Silesia (Środa Śląska): Christian Material Culture in a Jewish Context IDO NOY
Visualization of Colours, 2: Implications of David ben Yehudah he-Hasid's Diagram for the History of Kabbalah MOSHE IDEL
The Mantua Torah Ark and Lady Consilia Norsa: Jewish Female Patronage in Renaissance Italy ANDREINA CONTESSA
Challenging the Non-Jewish Images of a Jewish Queen: Portrayals of Esther by Early-Twentieth Century Jewish Artists MONIKA CZEKANOWSKA-GUTMAN
Humour in Architecture: Jewish Wit on Béla Lajta’s Buildings RUDOLF KLEIN
Chagall's Stained-Glass Syncretism LARRY SILVER
Special Item
Zoya Cherkassky's Aachen Passover Haggadah: A Subversive Illuminated Manuscript RONIT SOREK
Book Reviews
Mosaics Mirror of Faith
Rina Talgam, Mosaics of Faith: Floors of Pagans, Jews, Samaritans, Christians, and Muslims in the Holy Land
BASEMA HAMARNEH
Rabbis as Visual Beings
Rachel Neis, The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture: Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity
REUVEN KIPERWASSER
Jewish Sanctuary in the Old and New Worlds
Barry L. Stiefel, with the assistance of David Rittenberg, Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World: A Social and Architectural History
Barry L. Stiefel, Jews and the Renaissance of Synagogue Architecture, 1450-1730
SHARMAN KADISH
Exhibition Reviews
Looking Back on a Forward Thinker: Moshe Zabari Retrospective
Moshe Zabari: Retrospective, curator and catalogue editor Nitza Behroozi Baroz
Bezalel: In and Out in Jewish Contemporary Art, curator and catalogue editors Shiriat-Miriam Shamir and Ido Noy
SHARON WEISER-FERGUSON
The Second Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art 2015
SUSAN NASHMAN FRAIMAN
