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Imagining the Self, Imagining the Other
Visual Representation and Jewish-Christian Dynamics in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
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This collection revisits the complex subject of medieval visual representations of Jews and Judaism by themselves and by Christians. The topics range from questions of Jewish identity in Iberian illuminated Hebrew manuscripts (13th-14th centuries) to representations of Synagoga and Judas in the Bible Moralisée and cathedral sculpture, to early modern Jewish self-images. The essays are prefaced by a critical study of the discovery of medieval Jewish art among art historians and cultural activists ca. 1900-35. The volume will be of value to art historians, as well as medieval and early modern historians with an interest in Jewish culture and Jewish-Christian relations.
Contributors include: Michael Batterman, Marc Michael Epstein, Eva Frojmovic, Thomas Hubka, Sara Lipton, Annette Weber, and Diane Wolfthal.
Contributors include: Michael Batterman, Marc Michael Epstein, Eva Frojmovic, Thomas Hubka, Sara Lipton, Annette Weber, and Diane Wolfthal.
Eva Frojmovic, Ph.D. (1993) in Art History, University of Munich, is Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds. She has published on allegorical painting in the age of Giotto, and on Hebrew manuscript illumination.
'This beautifully edited book is among the most sophisticated texts on the subject. Combining many of the most authoritative, scholarly voices today writing on Jewish representation, the book studies the Jewish-Christian polemic from manifold perspectives, incorporating the theological, political, and cultural debates within the Jewish and Christian contexts. This volume is a significant contribution to art historical and historical scholarship as well as to the field of religious studies.'
Dana E. Katz, Sixteenth Century Journal, 2004.
'...this volume of essays makes an important contribution to an expanding and increasingly refined field.'
Nina Rowe, H-Net Reviews, 2003.
Dana E. Katz, Sixteenth Century Journal, 2004.
'...this volume of essays makes an important contribution to an expanding and increasingly refined field.'
Nina Rowe, H-Net Reviews, 2003.
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Editorâs Foreword
Buber in Basle, Schlosser in Sarajevo, Wischnitzer in Weimar: The Politics of Writing about Medieval Jewish Art, Eva Frojmovic
Another Flight into Egypt: Confluence, Coincidence, the Cross-cultural Dialectics of Messianism and Iconographic Appropriation in Medieval Jewish and Christian Culture, Marc Michael Epstein
Bread of Affliction, Emblem of Power: The Passover Matzah in Haggadah Manuscripts from Christian Spain, Michael Batterman
Messianic Politics in re-Christianized Spain: Images of the Sanctuary in Hebrew Bible Manuscripts, Eva Frojmovic
The Temple is my Body: Gender, Carnality, and Synagoga in the Bible Moralisée, Sara Lipton
The Hanged Judas of Freiburg Cathedral: Sources and Interpretations, Annette Weber
Imaging the Self: Representations of Jewish Ritual in Yiddish Books of Customs, Diane Wolfthal
Medieval Themes in the Wall-Paintings of 17th and 18th-Century Polish Wooden Synagogues, Thomas C. Hubka
Index
List of Illustrations
Editorâs Foreword
Buber in Basle, Schlosser in Sarajevo, Wischnitzer in Weimar: The Politics of Writing about Medieval Jewish Art, Eva Frojmovic
Another Flight into Egypt: Confluence, Coincidence, the Cross-cultural Dialectics of Messianism and Iconographic Appropriation in Medieval Jewish and Christian Culture, Marc Michael Epstein
Bread of Affliction, Emblem of Power: The Passover Matzah in Haggadah Manuscripts from Christian Spain, Michael Batterman
Messianic Politics in re-Christianized Spain: Images of the Sanctuary in Hebrew Bible Manuscripts, Eva Frojmovic
The Temple is my Body: Gender, Carnality, and Synagoga in the Bible Moralisée, Sara Lipton
The Hanged Judas of Freiburg Cathedral: Sources and Interpretations, Annette Weber
Imaging the Self: Representations of Jewish Ritual in Yiddish Books of Customs, Diane Wolfthal
Medieval Themes in the Wall-Paintings of 17th and 18th-Century Polish Wooden Synagogues, Thomas C. Hubka
Index
Art historians and cultural historians of the medieval and early modern periods, especially those with an interest in Jewish culture, and Jewish-Christian relations; scholars/students of Jewish culture and history.