Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, Volume 10(English, Paperback, unknown)

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Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, Volume 10(English, Paperback, unknown) is written by unknown and published by Liverpool University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1906764360 (ISBN 10) and 9781906764364 (ISBN 13).

ArsJudaica is an annual publication of the Department ofJewish Art at Bar-Ilan University. It showcases the Jewish contribution to thevisual arts and architecture from antiquity to the present from a variety ofperspectives, 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 cosmologicalcalendar, 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 modelfor Charlotte Rothschild's Haggadah of 1842 and Ronit Sternberg examinessampler embroidery past and present as an expression of merging Jewishidentity. Jechezkiel David Kirszenbaum's exploration of personal displacementisthe subject of an article by Caroline Goldberg Igra, and the Great Synagogue onTlomackie Street in Warsaw one by Eleanora Bergman. The Special Item by Sergey R. Kravtsov and VladimirLevin is devoted to Perek Shirah on a wall of the Great Synagoguein Radyvyliv. The volume alsoincludes book reviews and an appreciation of the life of Alfred Moldovan byWilliam 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 ArsJudaica are distributed by the Littman Library of Jewish Civilizationthroughout the world, except Israel. Orders and enquiries from Israelicustomers should be directed to: Ars Judaica Department of Jewish Art Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan 52900 telephone 03 5318413 fax 03 6359241 email ajudaica@mail.biu.ac.il