Research Catalog

Title

Art & ceremony in Jewish life : essays in the history of Jewish art / Vivian B. Mann.

Author

Mann, Vivian B.

Publication

London : Pindar Press, 2005.

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Description

ii, 339 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Alternative Title

Art and ceremony in Jewish life

Subject

• Jewish art > History
• Judaism and art

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p.[325]-332) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Art and spirituality through the rabbis' eyes -- II. Torah ornaments before 1600 -- III. 'New' examples of ceremonial art from medieval Ashkenaz -- IV. Sephardi ceremonial art : continuity in the diaspora -- V. Toward an iconography of medieval diaspora synagogues -- VI. Between worshipper and wall : the place of art in liturgical spaces -- VII. The unknown Jewish artists of the Middle Ages -- VIII. A fifteenth-century box in the Jewish Museum and its transformation -- IX. The Samson and Hercules tablemen : a case for Jewish patronage in twelfth-century Cologne -- X. The covered gospels, the Torah case, and the Qur'an box -- XI. Jewish-Muslim acculturation in the Ottoman empire : the evidence of ceremonial art -- XII. Memory, mimesis, realia : Jews and art in Morocco -- XIII. The rediscovery of a known work -- XIV. The golden age of Jewish ceremonial art in Frankfurt : metalwork of the eighteenth century -- XV. Forging Judaica : the case of the Italian Majolica seder plates -- XVI. 'Defining Jewish art' : the case of two eighteenth-century book covers.

ISBN

1899828966 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 52947995
• SCSB-11294434

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library