Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, Volume 14

Ilia Rodov is Head of the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University. He is the author of many works on European synagogue art, focusing on the history, patronage, and meanings of synagogue paintings, sculptures, architectural decoration, and furniture design. Mirjam Rajner is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University. Since 2005 she has been co-editor of Ars Judaica, the leading journal on Jewish art and visual culture. She has published numerous articles on Marc Chagall and modern central and east European Jewish art in exhibition catalogues, edited volumes, and academic journals, such as East European Jewish Studies, Images, Jewish Art, Nashim, Studia Rosenthaliana, and Studies in Contemporary Jewry. She is the author of Fragile Images: Jews and Art in Yugoslavia,1918–1945 (2019), and is currently co-editing a collection of articles entitled Crossing Borders: Jewish History and Culture in Southeastern Europe. Emile Schrijver is General Director of the Jewish Cultural Quarter, Amsterdam

• Articles1. From Ashkenaz to Italy: The Riddle of the Sereni HaggadahSivan Gottlieb2. Christian Illuminators, Jewish Patrons, and the Gender of the Jewish BookEva Frojmovic3.FromKurdistan to Baghdad: Transitions of Visual Knowledge during the Early Modern PeriodEliezer Baumgarten4. ASymbolic Image Envisioning Divine Communication in Jewish, Byzantine, andIslamic ArtShulamith Laderman5. The Jewish Image Desecrator in the Cantigas de Santa MariaKatherine Aron-Beller6. DéfenseJuive Contre l’Antisémitisme: A Surviving Medallic Expression of Resistance toNazismIra RezakBook ReviewsSarahLipton, Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic IconographyNirit Ben-Aryeh DebbyNataliaAvtonomova and John E. Bowlt (eds.), Lev Bakst, Léon Bakst. K 150-letiiu so dniarozhdeniia; Célia Bernasconi, John E. Bowlt, and Nick Mauss (eds.), DesigningDreams: A Celebration of Léon Bakst; Mathias Auclair, Sarah Barbequette,and Stéphane Barsacq (eds.), Bakst. Des Ballets russes à la haute coutureOlga MedvedkovaSynagogues in the IslamicWorld: Architecture, Design and IdentitySharman KadishSharman Kadish, Jewish Heritage in Britain and Ireland: AnArchitectural GuideSergey KravtsovAmitai Mendelsohn, Behold the Man: Jesus in Israeli ArtZiva Amishai MaiselsThe ExhibitionJerusalem Between Heaven and EarthOri Soltes