Ars Judaica, Volume 8

The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art
The Michael J. Floersheim Memorial for Jewish Art
Edited by Bracha Yaniv, Mirjam Rajner, and Ilia Rodov

Editor's Note
BRACHA YANIV, MIRJAM RAJNER, ILIA RODOV

Botanics and Iconography: Images of the Lulav and the Etrog
RIVKA BEN-SASSON

A Note on the Hebrew Script in Christian Art between Wroc?aw and Lviv
IWONA BRZEWSKA and WALDEMAR DELUGA

The Havdalah Candle-holder
MICHELE KLEIN

Social Concern and Tikkun Olam in Jewish American Art
MATTHEW BAIGELL

'I am Jussuf of Egypt': Orientalism in Else Lasker-Schüler's Drawings
ASTRID SCHMETTERLING

'These Threads Captured Shadows': Sewing and Embroidery in Holocaust Art Works of Contemporary Jewish Women Artists
MOR PRESIADO

Special Item

A New Discovery: The Earliest Illustrated Esther Scroll by Shalom Italia
SHALOM SABAR

Exhibition Review

Hommage à Lucien Hervé
MÁRTA NAGY

Book Reviews

Mati Meyer, An Obscure Portrait: Imaging Women's Reality in Byzantine Art
ELISHEVA BAUMGARTEN

Marc Michael Epstein, The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination
KATRIN KOGMAN-APPEL

Herbert L. Kessler and David Nirenberg, Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism
KATHY ARON-BELLER

Jewish Dimensions in Modern Visual Culture
ESTHER LEVINGER

Musya Glants, Where Is My Home? The Art and Life of the Russian Jewish Sculptor, Mark Antokolsky, 1843–1902
JOHN E. BOWLT

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