Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.3828/arsjudaica.2020.issue-16
{"title":"Ars Judaica: The Bar Ilan Journal of Jewish Art: Volume 16, Issue 1","authors":"","doi":"10.3828/arsjudaica.2020.issue-16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/arsjudaica.2020.issue-16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41476,"journal":{"name":"Ars Judaica-The Bar Ilan Journal of Jewish Art","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87413649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Art Patronage and Jewish Culture: Introduction","authors":"Richard I. Cohen","doi":"10.3828/AJ.2020.16.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/AJ.2020.16.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41476,"journal":{"name":"Ars Judaica-The Bar Ilan Journal of Jewish Art","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84038091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Scholars have only recently begun to take interest in ilanot (kabbalistic trees), a genre of kabbalistic creativity ignored by Gershom Scholem, the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism. Given that Scholem was intimately familiar with manuscripts the world over, his lack of attention to this genre in his innumerable writings must be considered an anomaly in need of explanation. Yet Scholem created ilanot of his own: a series of colorful, poster-size kabbalistic diagrams now held in the Scholem Archives at the National Library of Israel. These were produced to Scholem’s precise specifications for his teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My discussion of their production and analysis of their semiotics will range from the personal – including Scholem’s relationship to the graduate students who made these posters for their advisor – to the professional questions of how these images visualize particular kabbalistic ideas. I conclude with an examination of how “Scholem’s ilanot” compare to those crafted by historical kabbalists over the centuries.
{"title":"The Kabbalistic Trees of Gershom Scholem","authors":"J. Chajes","doi":"10.3828/AJ.2020.16.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/AJ.2020.16.8","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Scholars have only recently begun to take interest in ilanot (kabbalistic trees), a genre of kabbalistic creativity ignored by Gershom Scholem, the preeminent scholar of Jewish mysticism. Given that Scholem was intimately familiar with manuscripts the world over, his lack of attention to this genre in his innumerable writings must be considered an anomaly in need of explanation. Yet Scholem created ilanot of his own: a series of colorful, poster-size kabbalistic diagrams now held in the Scholem Archives at the National Library of Israel. These were produced to Scholem’s precise specifications for his teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My discussion of their production and analysis of their semiotics will range from the personal – including Scholem’s relationship to the graduate students who made these posters for their advisor – to the professional questions of how these images visualize particular kabbalistic ideas. I conclude with an examination of how “Scholem’s ilanot” compare to those crafted by historical kabbalists over the centuries.","PeriodicalId":41476,"journal":{"name":"Ars Judaica-The Bar Ilan Journal of Jewish Art","volume":"16 1","pages":"125 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42092715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Catalog of Catalogs: A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica by William Gross, Orly Tzion and Falk Wiesemann (review)","authors":"Shalom Sabar","doi":"10.1163/9789004406988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004406988","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41476,"journal":{"name":"Ars Judaica-The Bar Ilan Journal of Jewish Art","volume":"16 1","pages":"159 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/9789004406988","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47663874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New – and Not So New – Exploration of Contemporary Jewish Art","authors":"O. Soltes","doi":"10.3828/aj.2018.14.10b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/aj.2018.14.10b","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41476,"journal":{"name":"Ars Judaica-The Bar Ilan Journal of Jewish Art","volume":"14 1","pages":"137 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45121202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Much More Than a Guidebook","authors":"Sergey Kravtsov","doi":"10.3828/aj.2018.14.10f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/aj.2018.14.10f","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41476,"journal":{"name":"Ars Judaica-The Bar Ilan Journal of Jewish Art","volume":"14 1","pages":"154 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47444774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mosques and Synagogues","authors":"S. Kadish","doi":"10.3828/aj.2018.14.10e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/aj.2018.14.10e","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41476,"journal":{"name":"Ars Judaica-The Bar Ilan Journal of Jewish Art","volume":"14 1","pages":"150 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42800303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The image of a lion crushing a swastika, labeled in French, Hebrew, and Yiddish, on a small and previously unknown bronze medal appears to be a representation of a Jewish defense organization. Although undated, from all indications this surviving artifact was issued in the mid-1930s in Switzerland. The authority under which it was circulated, its targeted recipients, and its zone of distribution are all uncertain. An analysis of various possibilities is offered with the suggestion that the source may have been a militant Jewish defense organization such as Betar. This small medal is evidence that Jewish resistance to anti-Semitism was considered and actively promoted in the prewar period of Nazi hegemony.
{"title":"Défense juive contre l'antisémitisme: A Surviving Medallic Expression of Resistance to Nazism","authors":"I. Rezak","doi":"10.3828/aj.2018.14.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/aj.2018.14.8","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The image of a lion crushing a swastika, labeled in French, Hebrew, and Yiddish, on a small and previously unknown bronze medal appears to be a representation of a Jewish defense organization. Although undated, from all indications this surviving artifact was issued in the mid-1930s in Switzerland. The authority under which it was circulated, its targeted recipients, and its zone of distribution are all uncertain. An analysis of various possibilities is offered with the suggestion that the source may have been a militant Jewish defense organization such as Betar. This small medal is evidence that Jewish resistance to anti-Semitism was considered and actively promoted in the prewar period of Nazi hegemony.","PeriodicalId":41476,"journal":{"name":"Ars Judaica-The Bar Ilan Journal of Jewish Art","volume":"14 1","pages":"111 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49374345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The paper addresses two themes that have not received the attention they deserve in the existing research: the presence of Kabbalah in Kurdistan and the transfer of visual Kabbalistic knowledge between different cultures. It describes the way in which Italian visual objects were transferred to Kurdistan at the beginning of the seventeenth century, how they were adapted to Kurdish culture, and how they were then relocated and readapted following the immigration of Rabbinic Kurdish families to Bagdad. The article focuses on the work of two scholars from Kurdistan: R. Yehoshua b. R. David and R. Yehuda b. Pinḥas. These two kabbalists created a kabbalistic ilan (literally: tree), a complex diagram consisting of drawings and texts and relating to the spheres of divine emanation. The ilan, based on Italian knowledge, teaches us about the various relations between Italy and Kurdistan in the seventeenth century.
{"title":"From Kurdistan to Baghdad: The Transfer of Visual Knowledge during the Early Modern Period","authors":"Eliezer Baumgarten","doi":"10.3828/aj.2018.14.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/aj.2018.14.6","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The paper addresses two themes that have not received the attention they deserve in the existing research: the presence of Kabbalah in Kurdistan and the transfer of visual Kabbalistic knowledge between different cultures. It describes the way in which Italian visual objects were transferred to Kurdistan at the beginning of the seventeenth century, how they were adapted to Kurdish culture, and how they were then relocated and readapted following the immigration of Rabbinic Kurdish families to Bagdad. The article focuses on the work of two scholars from Kurdistan: R. Yehoshua b. R. David and R. Yehuda b. Pinḥas. These two kabbalists created a kabbalistic ilan (literally: tree), a complex diagram consisting of drawings and texts and relating to the spheres of divine emanation. The ilan, based on Italian knowledge, teaches us about the various relations between Italy and Kurdistan in the seventeenth century.","PeriodicalId":41476,"journal":{"name":"Ars Judaica-The Bar Ilan Journal of Jewish Art","volume":"14 1","pages":"79 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49629572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jews in American Art: Social Concern vs. Anti-Semitism","authors":"Ziva Amishai-Maisels","doi":"10.3828/aj.2018.14.10c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/aj.2018.14.10c","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41476,"journal":{"name":"Ars Judaica-The Bar Ilan Journal of Jewish Art","volume":"14 1","pages":"141 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41853742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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