Bringing to light little-known artistic traditions, the latest
volume of Ars Judaica focuses on the local and temporal contexts of
objects and their images and explores collective and personal
memories and identities in art. Rivka Ben-Sasson examines modes of
symbolic perception of nature prevalent in religious thought and
art by analysing images of the lulav and etrog. Iwona Brzewska and
Waldemar Deluga discuss the significance of Hebrew script in
paintings and prints of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries
originating from the borderland between the Catholic and Christian
Orthodox domains of eastern Europe. Michelle Klein studies the
typological development of the havdalah candle-holder, based on an
analysis of 170 examples. Matthew Baigell suggests that American
Jewish artists are characterized by concern for the betterment of
humankind; his sources include Jewish postcards, photographs, and
caricatures as well as the work of contemporary American Jewish
artists. Astrid Schmetterling discusses how Else Lasker-Schuler's
Orientalism offered a serious aesthetic-political challenge to both
German and Jewish society. Mor Presiado argues that the
contemporary use of sewing and embroidery by contemporary Jewish
women artists to depict women's experience of the Holocaust
initiates a new, feminist response to the Holocaust. The Special
Item in this volume, an article by Shalom Sabar on the earliest
illustrated Esther Scroll by Shalom Italia, is an illuminating
insight into early modern Jewish art in the making. Also included
are exhibition and book reviews. 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. 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: Ars Judaica, Department of
Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Telephone 03
5318413; Fax 036359241; Email
[email protected]
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