Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, Volume 11

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. 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. 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' Note‘The Masorah is a Fence to the Torah’ Monumental Letters and Micrography in Medieval Ashkenazi Bibles   ANNETTE WEBERVisualization of Colours, 1: David ben Yehudah he-Hasid’s Kabbalistic Diagram   MOSHE IDELThe Boy from the Warsaw Ghetto as Holocaust Icon in Art   BATYA BRUTINRobert Kirschbaum’s Art: Abstract, Intellectual, Spiritual   MATTHEW BAIGELLBook ReviewsDreaming of MichelangeloAsher D. Biemann, Dreaming of Michelangelo: Jewish Variations on a Modern ThemeNIELS ROEMERThe Jewishness of Christian ArtHerbert L. Kessler and David Nirenberg (eds), Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to ColonialismDEBRA HIGGS STRICKLANDMicrographic Midrash in Fourteenth-Century BarcelonaDalia-Ruth Halperin, Illuminating in Micrography: The Catalan Micrography Mahzor MS Heb. 806527 in the National Library of IsraelWARREN ZEV HARVEYFormer Synagogues and Host-Miracle Shrines in Germany and AustriaMitchell B. Merback, Pilgrimage and Pogrom: Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-Miracle Shrines of Germany and AustriaSARA OFFENBERG