Ars Judaica

Bracha Yaniv is Professor 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.

Sara Offenberg is Lecturer in the Jewish Art Department at Bar-Ilan University. She published articles and a book on Jewish-Christian relations in art and literature, the image of the Jew in Christian art and literature, Hasidei Ashkenaz, Piyyut Commentary, and Hebrew illuminated prayer books.

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 Head of 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.

Matthew Baigell, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
Evelyn M. Cohen, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York
Mira Friedman, Tel Aviv University
William L. Gross, Tel Aviv
Bernard Dov Hercenberg, Bar-Ilan University
Rudolf Klein, Miklos Ybl Faculty of Architecture, St Stephen University, Budapest
Katrin Kogman-Appel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva
Lee I. Levine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Vivian B. Mann, Graduate School, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York; Jewish Museum, New York
Avigdor W. G. Posèq, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Elisheva Revel-Neher, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Meir Roston, Bar-Ilan University
Shalom Sabar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Menahem Schmelzer, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York
Daniel Sperber, Bar-Ilan University
Zeev Weiss, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Bracha Yaniv, Bar-Ilan University