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Mosaic of Israel’s landscapes as an expression of geographical, cultural, and religious diversity [PDF]

, 2019
Dorot Ruth, Mosaic of Israel’s landscapes as an expression of geographical, cultural, and religious diversity. “Images” vol. XXV, no. 34. Poznań 2019. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. Pp. 87–113. ISSN 1731-450X. DOI 10.14746/i.2019.34.06. Israel is tiny
Dorot , Ruth
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The Medieval Synagogue of Molina de Aragón: Architecture and Decoration

Arts, 2020
The remains of a medieval synagogue, in addition to numerous fragments of plaster decoration, have been found as a result of the excavation work done at the Prao de los Judíos archaeological site in the town of Molina de Aragón (Guadalajara ...
Daniel Muñoz-Garrido
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The National, the Diasporic, and the Canonical: The Place of Diasporic Imagery in the Canon of Israeli National Art

Arts, 2020
This article explores Jerusalem-based art practice from the 1930s to the 1960s, focusing particularly on the German immigrant artists that dominated this field in that period.
Noa Avron Barak
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Rachel Lichtenstein’s Narrative Mosaics

Humanities, 2020
Rachel Lichtenstein’s books, along with her multimedia art, represent her explorations of her British Jewish identity and her place in British Jewish culture as an imaginative odyssey.
Phyllis Lassner
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Jewish Art Studies in the Lithuanian Yiddish Press of the Interwar Period (1918–1940)

Meno Istorija ir Kritika
Lithuanian art studies as an independent branch of science began to take shape in the First Republic of Lithuania between year 1918 and 1940. During 22 years in a multinational free state, it followed a winding path of mastery, professionalism, and the ...
Gradinskaitė Vilma
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Menorah Review (No. 7, Spring, 1986) [PDF]

, 1986
Incomplete Redemption -- Alternatives for a New Jewish-Christian Future -- Books Received -- Identifying Jewish Art: A Question of Moral Consciousness?

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El Lissitzky’s Red Wedge as the Hebrew letter Yud

Images, 2023
The analysis undertaken in this paper sets out with El Lissitzky’s 1919 revolutionary poster entitled Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge. This artwork, composed of simple geometric figures, in which an acute-angled red triangle splits the form of ...
Artur Kamczycki
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Menorah Review (No. 36, Winter, 1996) [PDF]

, 1996
Surviving the Twentieth Century -- On Jewish Art: Wherefore Art Thou? -- Leah -- The Message of Kohelet -- Holocaust Texts: A Newer Testament -- Jewish Women and Jewish Writers -- Places -- Book ...

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Painting the Sacred: Torah Arks, Peripheral Communities, and Religious Belonging in Early Modern German Lands

Religions
This article examines the painted Torah ark as a form of material religion through which early modern rural Jewish communities shaped sacred space and articulated religious belonging.
Zvi Orgad
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Born under a Lucky Star : Interpretations of Woodcuts of Pseudo-astrological Birth Amulets from German-Jewish Printing Houses in the 18th Century

Journal for Religion, Film and Media, 2021
This article examines illustrations of the zodiac signs on birth amulets from German- Jewish printing houses from the 18th century. These woodcuts are part of a long tradition of astrological references in Jewish art and literature. However, the amulet
Meininghaus, Alisha
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