Welcoming Visuality: New Studies in Jewish Art and Material Culture

Vladimir Levin, Ph.D. (2007), Director of the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published books and articles on Jewish politics in the Russian Empire, as well as on Jewish material culture, especially synagogue architecture.Sharon Liberman Mintz is the Curator of Jewish Art at the Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary and specializes in the fields of Illuminated Hebrew manuscripts and rare printed books. She has curated more than 50 exhibitions and authored 15 exhibition catalogues. She also serves as the Senior Consultant for Judaica at Sotheby’s since 1995.Rina Talgam, Ph.D (1996), is the Alice and Edward Winant Family Professor of Art History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests include the art of the Middle East from the Hellenistic period to the Umayyad period, specialization in mosaic pavements, and the mutual influences between polytheism, Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity and Islam, and ancient synagogues.