Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain

Katrin Kogman-Appel is Lecturer in the Department of Arts at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva. Kogman-Appel's credentials include publishing Jewish Art Between Islam and Christianity: The Decoration of Hebrew Bibles in Spain (2001) as well as contributing to Imaging the Early Medieval Bible, edited by John Williams and published by Penn State Press in 1999.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Acculturation and Borrowings from Christian Art1.The Manuscripts2.Motif Books and Images from Memory: Image Making in the Golden Haggadah and British Library, Or. 28843.The Rylands Haggadah and British Library, Or. 14044.The Sarajevo Haggadah and the Bologna-Modena Mahzor5.Other Methods of Image MakingConclusions to Part OnePart II: Meaning and Message6.Jewish Biblical Exegesis Employed in the Strategy of Image Making7.Designing the Messages of the Sephardic Picture Cycles: The Cultural Profile of the People InvolvedConclusions to Part TwoNotesBibliographyPhoto CreditsIndex

“Katrin Kogman-Appel of Ben-Gurion University, in her splendid new book examining the sources of five rare early 14th-century Haggadot from Aragon and Catalonia, revives the distinct possibility that the Jews were originally the pioneers of the images of the biblical narrative.”—Meir Ronnen Jerusalem Post