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.

In this volume, Sarit Shalev-Eyni considers the Mahzor as a cosmological
calendar, while Katrin Kogman-Appel looks at the work of Elisha ben Abraham,
known as Cresques, in fourtheenth-century Mallorca. Evelyn M. Cohen discusses a surprising model
for Charlotte Rothschild's Haggadah of 1842 and Ronit Sternberg examines
sampler embroidery past and present as an expression of merging Jewish
identity. Jechezkiel David Kirszenbaum’s exploration of personal displacementis
the subject of an article by Caroline Goldberg Igra, and the Great Synagogue on
Tłomackie Street in Warsaw one by Eleanora Bergman. The Special Item by Sergey R. Kravtsov and Vladimir
Levin is devoted to Perek Shirah on a wall of the Great Synagogue
in Radyvyliv. The volume also
includes book reviews and an appreciation of the life of Alfred Moldovan by
William L. Gross.

Contributors: Ziva Amishai-Maisels, Professor, History of Art Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Eleonora Bergman, Emanuel Ringelbaum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw, Evelyn M. Cohen, Professor, Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), New York, Caroline Goldberg Igra, Guest Curator, Beit Hatfusot, Tel Aviv, William L. Gross, Collector, Tel Aviv, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Sergey R. Kravtsov, Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Vladimir Levin, Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Sarit Shalev-Eyni, History of Art Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Larry Silver, History of Art Department, University of Pennsylvania, Ronit Steinberg, History and Theory Department, Bezalel Academy of Arts and design, Jerusalem

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:

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