Ars Judaica, Volume 5
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
Vesna Adić, Department of Art History, University of Belgrade
Ziva Amishai-Maisels, Professor, Department of Art History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Matthew Baigel, Professor, Department of Art History, Rutgers University
Kalman P. Bland, Professor, Department of Religion, Duke University
Andreina Contessa, Institute of Arts and Letters, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yaffa Englard, Department of Biblical Studies, Haifa University
Herbert L. Kessler, Professor, Department of the History Art, Johns Hopkins University
Kamila Klauzińska, Department of Jewish Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Shulamit Laderman, Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University
Mati Meyer, Department of Literature, Language, and Arts, Open University of Israel
Contents
Editor’s Note
BRACHA YANIV
The Personification of Zion in Byzantine Psalters with Marginal Illustrations: Between Eschatological Hopes and Realia
MATI MEYER
The Creation of Eve in Art and the Myth of Androgynous Adam
YAFFA ENGLARD
An Uncommon Representation of the Temple Implements in a Fifteenth-Century Hebrew Sephardi Bible
ANDREINA CONTESSA
A Jewish Theory of Jewish Visual Culture: Leon Modena’s Concepts of Images and their Effect on Locative Memory
KALMAN P. BLAND
The Tragic Story of Leon Koen, the First Sephardi Painter from Belgrade: A Symbolist and Admirer of Nietzsche
VESNA ADIĆ
The Unique Significance of the Hebrew Alphabet in the Works of Mordechai Ardon and Michael Sgan-Cohen
SHULAMIT LADERMAN
Richard McBee’s Akedah Series: Reimagining and Reconfiguring Jewish Art
MATTHEW BAIGEL
Special Item
Coloured Tombstones in the Jewish Cemetery in Zduńska Wola
KAMILA KLAUZIŃSKA
Book Reviews Kiev and Cracow: Modern Jewish Art Kultur-Lige: Artistic Avant-Garde of the 1910s and the 1920s; Jewish Artists in Kraków, 1873– 1939
ZIVA AMISHAI-MAISELS
Books and Catalogues Received
AVIVA LEVINE, MIRJAM RAJNER
In Memoriam Bezalel Narkiss (1926–2008) by Herbert L. Kessler
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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