Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture is pleased to announce the table of contents for Issue #8. It is available online.

Research Articles:

The Candle of Distinction: A Cultural Biography of the Havdalah Light
Author: Michele Klein
pp.: 3–24 (22)

A Gift From One of the Jewish Faith: The Menorahs at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and Liberal Religion in Interwar America
Author: Yitzchak Schwartz
pp.: 25–45 (21)

Invoking Samuel Hirszenberg’s Artistic Legacy—Encountering Exile*
Authors: Richard I. Cohen and Mirjam Rajner
pp.: 46–65 (20)

Tropical Russian Bears: Jews and Soviet Animation During The Cold War
Author: Maya Balakirsky Katz
pp.: 66–90 (25)

Primary Research:

Antokolskii’s Inquisition
Author: Shimshon Ayzenberg
pp.: 93–104 (12)

Exhibition Review:

Alois Breyer, El Lissitzky, Frank Stella—Wooden Synagogues , written by Batsheva Goldman-Ida
Author: Ronit Steinberg
pp.: 107–111 (5)

“One Front, One Nation: Posters from the Zionism 2000 Collection, 1920–1960” , written by Batsheva Goldman-Ida
Author: Maya Balakirsky Katz
pp.: 112–115 (4)

Book Reviews:

The American Jewish Story Through Cinema, written by Eric A. Goldman
Author: Jennifer Glaser
pp.: 119–120 (2)

Images of Cosmology in Jewish and Byzantine Art: God’s Blueprint of Creation, written by Shulamit Laderman
Author: Steven Fine
pp.: 121–122 (2)

Dreaming of Michelangelo: Jewish Variations on a Modern Theme , written by Asher Biemann
Author: Zachary Braiterman
pp.: 123–125 (3)

Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust , written by David Shneer
Author: Lilya Kaganovsky
pp.: 126–128 (3)

Israeli Cinema: Identities in Motion , written by Miri Talmon and Yaron Peleg
Author: Shai Ginsburg
pp.: 129–132 (4)

Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World: Toward a New Jewish Archaeology, written by Steven Fine
Author: Laura Lieber
pp.: 133–135 (3)

Art, History and the Historiography of Judaism in Roman Antiquity , written by Steven Fine
Author: Alexei M. Sivertsev
pp.: 136–138 (3)