Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, Volume 12

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' NoteSacrifice in Balance: The Akedah—An Eschatological Perspective  ZSOFIA BUDAThe Fleuron Crown from Neumarkt in Silesia (Środa Śląska): Christian Material Culture in a Jewish Context   IDO NOYVisualization of Colours, 2: Implications of David ben Yehudah he-Hasid's Diagram for the History of Kabbalah   MOSHE IDELThe Mantua Torah Ark and Lady Consilia Norsa: Jewish Female Patronage in Renaissance Italy   ANDREINA CONTESSAChallenging the Non-Jewish Images of a Jewish Queen: Portrayals of Esther by Early-Twentieth Century Jewish Artists   MONIKA CZEKANOWSKA-GUTMANHumour in Architecture: Jewish Wit on Béla Lajta’s Buildings   RUDOLF KLEINChagall's Stained-Glass Syncretism   LARRY SILVERSpecial ItemZoya Cherkassky's Aachen Passover Haggadah: A Subversive Illuminated Manuscript   RONIT SOREKBook ReviewsMosaics Mirror of FaithRina Talgam, Mosaics of Faith: Floors of Pagans, Jews, Samaritans, Christians, and Muslims in the Holy LandBASEMA HAMARNEHRabbis as Visual BeingsRachel Neis, The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture: Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late AntiquityREUVEN KIPERWASSERJewish Sanctuary in the Old and New WorldsBarry L. Stiefel, with the assistance of David Rittenberg, Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World: A Social and Architectural HistoryBarry L. Stiefel, Jews and the Renaissance of Synagogue Architecture, 1450-1730SHARMAN KADISHExhibition ReviewsLooking Back on a Forward Thinker: Moshe Zabari RetrospectiveMoshe Zabari: Retrospective, curator and catalogue editor Nitza Behroozi BarozBezalel: In and Out in Jewish Contemporary Art, curator and catalogue editors Shiriat-Miriam Shamir and Ido NoySHARON WEISER-FERGUSONThe Second Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art 2015SUSAN NASHMAN FRAIMAN