Ars Judaica, Volume 4
The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art
The Michael J. Floersheim Memorial for Jewish Art
About the editors
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.
Mirjam Rajner is Lecturer in the Jewish Art Department at Bar-Ilan University. Her numerous publications deal with the early art of Marc Chagall, the art of Russian, Polish, and South-Eastern artists of Jewish origin in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, and the art created during and immediately after the Holocaust.
Ilia Rodov is Lecturer in the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University. He is the author of many works on European synagogue art, focusing on the history, patronage, and meanings of synagogue paintings, sculptures, architectural decoration, and furniture design.
Contributor information
Waldemar Deluga, Professor, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw
Mira Friedman, Professor, Department of Art History, Tel Aviv University
Lola Kantor-Kazovsky, Professor, Department of Art History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Katrin Kogman-Appel, Professor, Department of the Arts, David Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva
Eugeny Kotlyar, Department of Art History, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Ukraine
Sergey R. Kravtsov, Centre for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Harris Lenowitz, Professor, Department of Languages and Literature, and Middle East Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Avigdor W. G. Posèq, Professor, Department of Art History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mirjam Rajner, Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University
Elisheva Revel-Neher, Professor, Department of Art History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Contents
Editor’s Note
BRACHA YANIV
Hebrew Script in the Works of Bartolomé Bermejo
HARRIS LENOWITZ
A Note on Moses’ Tar-Box
DANIEL SPERBER
Reconstruction of the Temple by Charles Chipiez and Its Applications in Architecture
SERGEY R. KRAVTSOV
The Making of a National Art: Boris Schatz in Bulgaria
EUGENY KOTLYAR
Chagall’s Jew in Bright Red
MIRJAM RAJNER
Oskar Kokoschka’s Saul and David
MIRA FRIEDMAN
Vladimir Yakovlev in the Geobman Collection in Tel Aviv: A Jewish Interpretation of the Avant-Garde Myth of Artistic Creation
LOLA KANTOR-KAZOVSKY
Igael Tumarkin’s Sixteen Tributes to Goya
AVIGDOR W. G. POSÈQ
Book Reviews
Journey along the Cyclic Path
Shalom Sabar in collaboration with Ella Arazi, Avriel Bar-Levav, and Roni Weinstein, Ma’agal Ha-hayyim (The Life Cycle): Jewish Communities in the East in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
ILIA RODOV
Where the Medieval Spanish Haggadot Ever Read at the Seder?
Katrin Kogman-Appel, Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain: Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday
DANIEL SPERBER
Exhibition Review
Exhibition of Gela Seksztajn’s Drawings at the Jewish Historical Museum in Warsaw
WALDEMAR DELUGA
In Memoriam
Kurt (1923–2007) and Ursula (1927–1999) Schubert by Katrin Kogman-Appel
Gabriela Sed-Rajna (1927–2008) by Elisheva Revel-Neher
Abbreviations
Contributors to this Issue
Submission and Style Guidelines
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.
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