Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture is pleased to announce the table of contents for Issue #11. It is available online.


Festschrift: Margaret Olin

Introduction
Author: Maya Balakirsky Katz and Steven Fine
pp.: 3–4

The Byzantine Synagogue of Alfred Alschuler
Author: Robert S. Nelson
pp.: 5–42

Visual Environment of Jewish Learning in Twelfth-Century Rouen
Author: Susan L. Ward
pp.: 43–56

Jewish Tactics and Memorial Space-making: Lisa Alembik’s Murder Ballads
Author: Joey Orr
pp.: 57–65

Notes On:
Author: Ellen Rothenberg
pp.: 67–84

Two Modes of Political Engagement in Contemporary Israeli Art Photography
Author: Amos Morris-Reich
pp.: 85–108

Memory in the Present Tense: Vera Frenkel’s Diaspora Art
Author: Carol Zemel
pp.: 109–116

Historiography and Negativity in the Paintings of Chaïm Soutine
Author: Catherine M. Soussloff
pp.: 117–140

The Menorah: Cult, History, and Myth Exhibiting the Past and Future of Catholic-Jewish Relations
Author: Steven Fine
pp.: 141–151

Animating Pushkin for the “Jewish War”
Author: Maya Balakirsky Katz
pp.: 152–176

The First English Collectors of Jewish Wedding Rings and their Dealers
For Margaret (Peg) Olin who has always had new and unique perspectives on Jewish art
Author: Vivian B. Mann
pp.: 177–185

Research Articles:

Jews, Ships, and Death: A Consideration of Nautical Images in Jewish Mortuary Contexts
Author: Karen B. Stern
pp.: 189–209

Scribe and Owner as Artist in a Sixteenth-Century Yiddish Miscellany
Author: Diane Wolfthal
pp.: 210–226

Love Conquers All: The Erfurt Girdle as a Source for Understanding Medieval Jewish Love and Romance
Author: Ido Noy
pp.: 227–246

Book Reviews:

The Monk’s Haggadah: A Fifteenth-century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee, with a prologue by Friar Erhard von Pappenheim, edited by David Stern, Christoph Markschies, and Sarit Shalev-Eyni
Author: Sara Lipton
pp.: 249–251

Synagogues in the Islamic World: Architecture, Design, and Identity, edited by Mohammad Gharipour
Author: Ilia Rodov
pp.: 252–258

The Elephant Mosaic Panel in the Synagogue at Huqoq: Official Publication and Initial Interpretations, written by Karen Britt and Ra’anan S. Boustan
Author: Steven Fine
pp.: 259–261

The Temple Mount Excavations in Jerusalem, 1968–1978, Directed by Benjamin Mazar, Final Reports, Vol. V: Herodian Architectural Decoration and King Herod’s Royal Portico, written by Orit Peleg-Barkat
Author: Benjamin D. Gordon
pp.: 262–264

The Carved Wooden Torah Arks of Eastern Europe, written by Bracha Yaniv
Author: Rudolf Klein
pp.: 265–267