Table of Contents

Symposium: Constructing and Deconstructing Jewish Art

1. The Round Table Discussion

2. From Synagogue Furnishing to Media Event: The Magdala Ashlar
Steven Fine

3. Polish-Jewish Discourse in Art History: Standpoints, Objectives, Methodologies
Sergey R. Kravtsov

4. Jewish Art and Modernity

5. Contemporary Jewish Art Criticism
Ben Schachter

The Role of Exhibitions in the Definition of Jewish Art and the Discourse on Jewish Identity
Kathrin Pieren

Articles

6. In Search for a New Jewish Art: Leonid Pasternak in Jerusalem
Gil Weissblei

7. Evacuation Amination: Jewish Geographies and Sindbad the Sailor in Crimea
Maya Balakirsky Katz

Special Item

The Wanderings of Hermann Struck's 'Ahasver'
Mirjam Rajner and Ahuva Klein

Book Reviews

Elana Shapira, Style and Seduction: Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siècle Vienna
Asher Biemann

Carol Zemel, Looking Jewish
Samantha Baskind

Lola Kantor-Kazobsky, Grobman (in Russian)
Marina Dmitrieva

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About the Author

Ilia Rodov is Head of the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University. He is the author of many works on European synagogue art, focusing on the history, patronage, and meanings of synagogue paintings, sculptures, architectural decoration, and furniture design. Sara Offenberg is Lecturer in the Jewish Art Department at Bar-Ilan University. She published articles and a book on Jewish-Christian relations in art and literature, the image of the Jew in Christian art and literature, Hasidei Ashkenaz, Piyyut Commentary, and Hebrew illuminated prayer books. Mirjam Rajner is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University. Since 2005 she has been co-editor of Ars Judaica, the leading journal on Jewish art and visual culture. She has published numerous articles on Marc Chagall and modern central and east European Jewish art in exhibition catalogues, edited volumes, and academic journals, such as East European Jewish Studies, Images, Jewish Art, Nashim, Studia Rosenthaliana, and Studies in Contemporary Jewry. She is the author of Fragile Images: Jews and Art in Yugoslavia,1918–1945 (2019), and is currently co-editing a collection of articles entitled Crossing Borders: Jewish History and Culture in Southeastern Europe.