Ars Judaica, Volume 1
The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art
The Michael J. Floersheim Memorial for Jewish Art
About the editor
Bracha Yaniv is Head of the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University. Her research topics are Jewish ceremonial objects and synagogue art. She is the author of The Carved Wooden Torah Arks of Poland and Ceremonial Synagogue Textiles from Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Italian Communities, both of which will be published in English by the Littman Library.
Contributor information
Ziva Amishai-Maisels, Professor, Department of Art History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Evelyn M. Cohen, Professor, Master’s Program in Jewish Art and Visual Culture, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York
Mira Friedman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Art History, Tel Aviv University
Lee I. Levine, Professor, Departments of Archaeology and Jewish History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Olga Goldberg-Mulkiewicz, Professor Emeritus, Department of Jewish and Comparative Folklore, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Milly Heyd, Professor, Department of History of Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ruth Jacoby, Center for Jewish Art and Rothberg International School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Avram Kampf, Professor Emeritus, Department of History of Art, Haifa University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Willy Lindwer, Collector, Jerusalem and Amsterdam
Avigdor W. G. Posèq, Professor Emeritus, Department of History of Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mirjam Rajner, Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University
Ilia Rodov, Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University
Shalom Sabar, Professor, Department of Jewish and Comparative Folklore, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shaul Shaked, Professor Emeritus, Department of Indian, Iranian, and Armenian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Contents
Michael J. Floersheim, 1938–1992
Editor’s Note
BRACHA YANIV
Figural Art in Ancient Judaism
LEE I. LEVINE
Towards a Semiotic Approach to Jewish Art
AVIGDOR W. G. POSÈQ
The Meaning of the Zodaic in Synagogues in the Land of Israel during the Byzantine Period
MIRA FRIEDMAN
Dragons: A Symbol of Evil in European Synagogue Decoration?
ILIA RODOV
Gallico’s Identity Exposed: Revealing an Erased Colophon from a Renaissance Prayer Book
EVELYN M. COHEN
Discovering the Floersheim Haggadah
YAEL ZIRLIN
Art and the Early Zionist Movement: Controversy and Discord
AVRAM KAMPF
Chagall’s Fiddler
MIRJAM RAJNER
Arnold Schoenberg’s Self-Portraits between ‘Iconism’ and ‘Anti-Iconism’: The Jewish- Christian Struggle
MILLY HEYD
Special Item
An Early Torah Pointer from Afghanistan
SHAUL SHAKED and RUTH JACOBY
Book Review
Jerzy Malinowski, Painting and Sculpture of Polish Jews in the Nineteent and Twentieth Centuries (Polish)
OLGA GOLDBERG-MULKIEWICZ
In Memoriam
Moshe Barasch (1920–2004) by Ziva Amishai-Maisels
Joseph Gutmann (1923–2004) by Shalom Sabar
Rafi Grafman (1939–2001) by Willy Lindwer
Contributors
Submission and Style Guidances
Reviews
‘Ars Judaica develops new integrative methodologies of Jewish art historical studies, which essentially contribute to the effect of the whole collection. There is a strategy and interpretative balance between formal analysis, historical cultural investigations, and iconographical, iconological and symbolic interpretations.‘
Igor Dukhan, East European Jewish Affairs
Ars 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.
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
Department of Jewish Art
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telephone 03 5318413
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