Bracha Yaniv, Editor’s Note

Zsofia Buda, Sacrifice in Balance: The Akedah – an Eschatological Perspective

Moshe Idel, Visualization of Colors, 2: Implications of David ben Yehudah he-Ḥ asid's Diagram for the History of Kabbalah

Andreina Contessa, The Mantua Torah Ark and Lady Consilia Norsa: Jewish Female Patronage in Renaissance Italy

Monika Czekanowska-Gutman, Challenging the Non-Jewish Images of a Jewish Queen: Portrayals of Esther by Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Artists

Ido Noy, The Fleuron Crown from Neumarkt in Silesia (Środa Śląska): Christian Material Culture in a Jewish Context

Rudolf Klein, Humor in Architecture: Jewish Wit on Béla Lajta’s Buildings
Larry Silver, Chagall’s Stained-Glass Syncretism
Special Item

Ronit Sorek, Zoya Cherkassky’s Aachen Passover Haggadah: A Subversive Illuminated Manuscript

Book Review

Basema Hamarneh, Mosaics Mirror of Faith. Rina Talgam, Mosaics of Faith: Floors of Pagans, Jews, Samaritans, Christians, and Muslims in the Holy Land (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press; Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi Press, 2014), xvi, 579 pp., 360 color and 144 b/w illustrations, ISBN 9780271060842

Reuven Kiperwasser, Rabbis as Visual Beings. Rachel Neis, The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture: Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity, Greek Culture in the Roman World (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), xii, 319 pp., ISBN 9781107032514

Sharman Kadish, Jewish Sanctuary in the Old and New Worlds. Barry L. Stiefel, with the assistance of David Rittenberg, Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World (Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2014), 352 pp., 65 black-and-white illustrations, ISBN 978-1611173208 (hb); 978-1611173215 (ebook); and Barry L. Stiefel, Jews and the Renaissance of Synagogue Architecture, 1450–1730 (London; Brookfield, VT: Pickering and Chatto, 2014), xvi +216 pp., 20 black-and white-illustrations, ISBN 978-1-848933637 (hb); 978-1781440100 (ebook)