Eliezer-Zusman of Brody

Zvi Orgad, Ph.D. (2017), teaches in the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University. He is the author of articles on synagogue interior paintings and Hebrew illuminated manuscripts.

• ForewordAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsList of Plates1 The Painter Eliezer-Zusman of Brody1 Signature Formulas2 Origin and Vocational Training3 Status and Personal Life4 Itinerary2 Eliezer-Zusman at Work1 Underpainting, Binding Materials, and Pigments2 Preparation of the Substrate and Color Laying Order3 Copying Models4 Inscriptions5 Planning and Layout of Compositions6 Textual Sources of Painting Themes3 Eliezer-Zusman’s Workshop—the Unterlimpurg and Steinbach Synagogues1 Underpainting, Binding Materials, and Pigments2 Preparation of the Substrate and Color Laying Order3 Copying Visual Models: Bechhofen and Horb Synagogues4 Shared Visual Models: Kirchheim Synagogue5 Copying Visual Models: Miscellanea6 Inscriptions7 Planning and Layout of the Composition8 Textual Sources of Painting Themes9 Re-examination: The Attribution of the Unterlimpurg and Steinbach synagogue Paintings to Eliezer-Zusman4 Eliezer-Zusman’s Workshop—the Colmberg Synagogue1 Underpainting2 Copying Models3 Consistent Placement of Motifs within the Decoration4 Re-examination: The Attribution of the Colmberg Synagogue Paintings to Eliezer-Zusman5 Continuing the Tradition of Synagogue Interior Paintings in Southern Germany and Alsace in the Eighteenth Century1 The Georgensgmünd Synagogue2 The Odenbach Synagogue3 The Traenheim Synagogue4 The Horkheim Synagogue5 SummaryEpilogueBibliographyPlatesIndex of NamesIndex of Places