Description
Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on the migration and acculturation of images in Jewish culture and how that reflects intercultural exchange. Gender aspects of Jewish art are also highlighted, as is the role of images in interreligious encounters. Other topics covered include the history, codicology, and iconography of a Haggadah produced in the late fifteenth century.
Table of ContentsArticles
1. From Ashkenaz to Italy: The Riddle of the Sereni Haggadah
Sivan Gottlieb
2. Christian Illuminators, Jewish Patrons, and the Gender of the Jewish Book
Eva Frojmovic
3.From Kurdistan to Baghdad: Transitions of Visual Knowledge during the Early Modern Period
Eliezer Baumgarten
4. A Symbolic Image Envisioning Divine Communication in Jewish, Byzantine, and Islamic Art
Shulamith Laderman
5. The Jewish Image Desecrator in the Cantigas de Santa Maria
Katherine Aron-Beller
6. Défense Juive Contre l’Antisémitisme: A Surviving Medallic Expression of Resistance to Nazism
Ira Rezak
Book Reviews
Sarah Lipton, Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Iconography
Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby
Natalia Avtonomova and John E. Bowlt (eds.), Lev Bakst, Léon Bakst. K 150-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia; Célia Bernasconi, John E. Bowlt, and Nick Mauss (eds.), Designing Dreams: A Celebration of Léon Bakst; Mathias Auclair, Sarah Barbequette, and Stéphane Barsacq (eds.), Bakst. Des Ballets russes à la haute couture
Olga Medvedkova
Synagogues in the Islamic World: Architecture, Design and Identity
Sharman Kadish
Sharman Kadish, Jewish Heritage in Britain and Ireland: An Architectural Guide
Sergey Kravtsov
Amitai Mendelsohn, Behold the Man: Jesus in Israeli Art
Ziva Amishai Maisels
The Exhibition Jerusalem Between Heaven and Earth
Ori Soltes
