Bracha Yaniv is Professor Emerita of Jewish Art History at Bar-Ilan University, and founding editor of Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art. She is the author of The Carved Wooden Torah Arks of Eastern Europe (2017) and Ceremonial Synagogue Textiles from Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Italian Communities (2019), both published by the Littman Library. 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. 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.

• Editors’ NoteThe Mahzor as a Cosmological Calendar: The Zodiac Signs in Medieval Ashkenazi Context SARIT SHALEV-EYNI'Elisha ben Abraham, Known as Cresques': Scribe, Illuminator, and Mapmaker in Fourteenth-Century Mallorca KATRIN KOGMAN-APPELA Surprising Model for Charlotte Rothschild’s Haggadah of 1842 EVELYN M. COHENSampler Embroidery Past and Present as an Expression of Merging Jewish Identity RONIT STEINBERGThe Restoration of Loss: Jechezkiel David Kirszenbaum’s Exploration of Personal Displacement CAROLINE GOLDBERG IGRAThe Great Synagogue on Tłomackie Street: Warsaw Inspirations ELEONORA BERGMANSpecial itemLeviathan Thanks the Lord: Perek Shirah on a Wall of the Great Synagogue in Radyvyliv SERGEY R. KRAVTSOV and VLADIMIR LEVINBook ReviewsObsessions of a DiasporistCilly Kugelmann, Eckhart Gillen, and Hubertus Gaßner, Obsessions: R. B. Kitaj 1932–2007 ZIVA AMISHAI-MAISELSIsrael’s Art Viewed and ReviewedYigal Zalmona, A Century of Israeli Art LARRY SILVERIn MemoriamAlfred Moldovan (1921–2013) WILLIAM L. GROSSAbbreviationsContributors to this issue

Bracha Yaniv is Professor Emerita of Jewish Art History at Bar-Ilan University, and founding editor of Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art. She is the author of The Carved Wooden Torah Arks of Eastern Europe (2017) and Ceremonial Synagogue Textiles from Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Italian Communities (2019), both published by the Littman Library. 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. 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.

• Editors’ NoteThe Mahzor as a Cosmological Calendar: The Zodiac Signs in Medieval Ashkenazi Context SARIT SHALEV-EYNI'Elisha ben Abraham, Known as Cresques': Scribe, Illuminator, and Mapmaker in Fourteenth-Century Mallorca KATRIN KOGMAN-APPELA Surprising Model for Charlotte Rothschild’s Haggadah of 1842 EVELYN M. COHENSampler Embroidery Past and Present as an Expression of Merging Jewish Identity RONIT STEINBERGThe Restoration of Loss: Jechezkiel David Kirszenbaum’s Exploration of Personal Displacement CAROLINE GOLDBERG IGRAThe Great Synagogue on Tłomackie Street: Warsaw Inspirations ELEONORA BERGMANSpecial itemLeviathan Thanks the Lord: Perek Shirah on a Wall of the Great Synagogue in Radyvyliv SERGEY R. KRAVTSOV and VLADIMIR LEVINBook ReviewsObsessions of a DiasporistCilly Kugelmann, Eckhart Gillen, and Hubertus Gaßner, Obsessions: R. B. Kitaj 1932–2007 ZIVA AMISHAI-MAISELSIsrael’s Art Viewed and ReviewedYigal Zalmona, A Century of Israeli Art LARRY SILVERIn MemoriamAlfred Moldovan (1921–2013) WILLIAM L. GROSSAbbreviationsContributors to this issue

Bracha Yaniv is Professor Emerita of Jewish Art History at Bar-Ilan University, and founding editor of Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art. She is the author of The Carved Wooden Torah Arks of Eastern Europe (2017) and Ceremonial Synagogue Textiles from Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Italian Communities (2019), both published by the Littman Library. 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. 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.

• Editors’ NoteThe Mahzor as a Cosmological Calendar: The Zodiac Signs in Medieval Ashkenazi Context SARIT SHALEV-EYNI'Elisha ben Abraham, Known as Cresques': Scribe, Illuminator, and Mapmaker in Fourteenth-Century Mallorca KATRIN KOGMAN-APPELA Surprising Model for Charlotte Rothschild’s Haggadah of 1842 EVELYN M. COHENSampler Embroidery Past and Present as an Expression of Merging Jewish Identity RONIT STEINBERGThe Restoration of Loss: Jechezkiel David Kirszenbaum’s Exploration of Personal Displacement CAROLINE GOLDBERG IGRAThe Great Synagogue on Tłomackie Street: Warsaw Inspirations ELEONORA BERGMANSpecial itemLeviathan Thanks the Lord: Perek Shirah on a Wall of the Great Synagogue in Radyvyliv SERGEY R. KRAVTSOV and VLADIMIR LEVINBook ReviewsObsessions of a DiasporistCilly Kugelmann, Eckhart Gillen, and Hubertus Gaßner, Obsessions: R. B. Kitaj 1932–2007 ZIVA AMISHAI-MAISELSIsrael’s Art Viewed and ReviewedYigal Zalmona, A Century of Israeli Art LARRY SILVERIn MemoriamAlfred Moldovan (1921–2013) WILLIAM L. GROSSAbbreviationsContributors to this issue