Table of Contents

Articles

1. From Ashkenaz to Italy: The Riddle of the Sereni Haggadah
Sivan Gottlieb

2. Christian Illuminators, Jewish Patrons, and the Gender of the Jewish Book
Eva Frojmovic

3.From Kurdistan to Baghdad: Transitions of Visual Knowledge during the Early Modern Period
Eliezer Baumgarten

4. A Symbolic Image Envisioning Divine Communication in Jewish, Byzantine, and Islamic Art
Shulamith Laderman

5. The Jewish Image Desecrator in the Cantigas de Santa Maria
Katherine Aron-Beller

6. Défense Juive Contre l’Antisémitisme: A Surviving Medallic Expression of Resistance to Nazism
Ira Rezak

Book Reviews

Sarah Lipton, Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Iconography
Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby

Natalia Avtonomova and John E. Bowlt (eds.), Lev Bakst, Léon Bakst. K 150-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia; Célia Bernasconi, John E. Bowlt, and Nick Mauss (eds.), Designing Dreams: A Celebration of Léon Bakst; Mathias Auclair, Sarah Barbequette, and Stéphane Barsacq (eds.), Bakst. Des Ballets russes à la haute couture
Olga Medvedkova

Synagogues in the Islamic World: Architecture, Design and Identity
Sharman Kadish

Sharman Kadish, Jewish Heritage in Britain and Ireland: An Architectural Guide
Sergey Kravtsov

Amitai Mendelsohn, Behold the Man: Jesus in Israeli Art
Ziva Amishai Maisels

The Exhibition Jerusalem Between Heaven and Earth
Ori Soltes

About the Author

Bracha Yaniv is Professor Emerita of Jewish Art History at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and founding editor of Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art. In addition to many articles on the topic, she has published two pioneering books in Hebrew on the history, design, and iconography of ceremonial synagogue objects; Ceremonial Synagogue Textiles is the first to be translated into English. Her first book-length publication in English, The Carved Wooden Torah Arks of Eastern Europe, is also published 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.