Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, Volume 1

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.

• Michael J. Floersheim, 1938 - 1992 Editor's Note BRACHA YANIV Figural Art in Ancient Judaism LEE I. LEVINE Towards a Semiotic Approach to Jewish Art AVIGDOR W. G. POSEQ The Meaning of the Zodaic in Synagogues in the Land of Israel during the Byzantine PeriodMIRA FRIEDMAN Dragons: A Symbol of Evil in European Synagogue Decoration? ILIA RODOV Gallico's Identity Exposed: Revealing an Erased Colophon from a Renaissance Prayer Book EVELYN M. COHEN Discovering the Floersheim Haggadah YAEL ZIRLIN Art and the Early Zionist Movement: Controversy and Discord AVRAM KAMPF Chagall's Fiddler MIRJAM RAJNER Arnold Schoenberg's Self-Portraits between 'Iconism' and 'Anti-Iconism': The Jewish- Christian Struggle MILLY HEYD Special Item An Early Torah Pointer from Afghanistan SHAUL SHAKED and RUTH JACOBY Book Review Jerzy Malinowski, Painting and Sculpture of Polish Jews in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Polish) OLGA GOLDBERG-MULKIEWICZ In Memoriam Moshe Barasch (1920 - 2004) by Ziva Amishai-Maisels Joseph Gutmann (1923 - 2004) by Shalom Sabar Rafi Grafman (1939 - 2001) by Willy Lindwer ContributorsSubmission and Style Guidances

'Ars Judaica develops new integrative methodologies of Jewish art historical studies, which essentially contribute to the effect of the whole collection. There is a strategy and interpretative balance between formal analysis, historical cultural investigations, and iconographical, iconological and symbolic interpretations.' Igor Dukhan, East European Jewish Affairs