name sara offenberg february 2018 curriculum vitae and...

Name Sara Offenberg February 2018

CURRICULUM VITAE AND LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

• Personal Details

Name: Sara Offenberg

Address at work: Department of Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva,

P.O.B. 653, ISRAEL

Tel.: 972-8-6428319

Email: [email protected]

• Education

B.A. 1998-2002 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Jewish

Thought and the Department of Arts (cum laude)

M.A. 2005 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Jewish

Thought

Advisor: Prof. Daniel J. Lasker and Prof. Katrin Kogman-Appel

Studied in a direct doctoral program for outstanding students, thus

submitted only the dissertation

Ph.D. 2002-2008 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Jewish

Thought

Advisor: Prof. Daniel J. Lasker and Prof. Katrin Kogman-Appel

Title of thesis: “Expressions of Meeting the Challenges of the

Christian Milieu in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature,” (Summa

cum laude)

• Employment History

Since 2016 Senior Lecturer, Department of Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

2014-2016 Senior Lecturer, Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University

2008-2016 Teaching Associate, Department of Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the

Negev

2011 – 2014 Teaching Associate, Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University

2014 Teaching Associate, Department of Judaism and the Arts, Schechter

Institute of Jewish Studies

2013 – 2014 Teaching Associate, Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University

of the Negev

2010 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien

Heidelberg

2003-2009 Tutorial Assistant, Department of Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

2003-2006 Research Assistant, Department of Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the

Negev

2003 Cataloguer of joint project of the Index of Christian Art, Princeton

University

• Professional Activities

(a) Positions in academic administration at the Department of Jewish Art BIU 2014-2016

Committee for Ph.D. studies

Committee for international relations

Advisor for Master and Ph.D. students

(b) Professional functions outside universities/institutions

2014-present Advisor, Digitized Manuscripts Collection Database, The National Library

of Israel

2015-present Advisor, Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception

2011-2015 Imago- Israeli Association of Visual Culture in the Middle Ages – treasurer

and member of the executive board

(c) Ad- hoc reviewer

Grant agencies: Israel Science Foundation (ISF)

Evaluation of Master and Ph.D theses: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Peer Reviewed Journals: Ars Judaica, Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture,

Jewish Studies Quarterly, Melbourne Historical Journal, Studies in Christian-

Jewish Relations.

Peer Reviewed Publication House: Brill

(d) Editor or member of editorial board of scientific or professional journal

2014-2017 Ars Judaica Journal Editor

2014-present Arts & Social Sciences Journal Editorial board

(e) Academic Committee Service Tasks

Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Since 2016 Marketing director, Department of Arts

Since 2017 Chair, Education Committee, Department of Arts

Since 2017 Member Education Committee, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Since 2017 Co-organizer of the Forum of Young Researchers, Ben Gurion University of

the Negev

Bar Ilan University

2016 Member of galleries committee

2014-2016 Member of committee for Ph.D. studies

2014-2016 Chair of international relations

2014-2016 Marketing director

(f) Membership in professional/scientific societies

2014-present The Historical Society of Israel (ISRAEL)

2010-present BAJS – British Association for Jewish Studies (UK)

2010-present EAJS – European Association for Jewish Studies (EU)

2008-present ICMA – International Center of Medieval Art (USA)

2008-present WUJS – World Union of Jewish Studies (ISRAEL)

2007-present Imago- Israeli Association of Visual Culture in the Middle Ages (ISRAEL)

VOLUNTEER WORK

2010-Present OFEK Project

2016-Present Be'e-Shova: Nutritional Security http://eng.beersova.org.il/about-us/

2017-Present Women Embroidering Dreams http://www.nashimrokmot.org/

• Educational activities

(a) Courses taught

Jewish Reactions to Christian Art in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts,

Graduates, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg

The Image of the Jew in Medieval Art, Graduates, Schechter Institute of Jewish

Studies

Medieval Art, undergraduate, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Ancient and Classic Art, undergraduate, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Art and Judaism in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages, undergraduate, Ben-Gurion

University of the Negev

War and Peace: Expressions of Conflict and Coexistence in Jewish Art throughout

the Ages, undergraduate, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Once Upon a Time there was a Painting: Tales and Jewish Art in the Middle Ages

undergraduate, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Humor, Satire and Polemics in Art: From Ancient Greece to Contemporary Art,

undergraduate, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Jewish Art, undergraduate, Bar Ilan University

Ancient and Medieval Art, undergraduate, Bar Ilan University

Selected Subjects in Medieval Art, undergraduate, Bar Ilan University

Beauty and Sanctity in Medieval Art, undergraduate, Bar Ilan University

The Image of the Jew in Art and Cinema, undergraduate, Bar Ilan University

Outstanding: The Other and Otherness in Art, undergraduate, Bar Ilan University

The Messianic Idea in the Middle Ages and its Expression in Text and Image,

undergraduate, Bar Ilan University

http://eng.beersova.org.il/about-us/

http://www.nashimrokmot.org/

Between East and West: Place and Location in Art, undergraduate, Bar Ilan

University

Grace is Deceitful, and Beauty is Vain”: On Appreciations of Arts, undergraduate,

Bar Ilan University

The Illuminated Book in the Middle Ages, undergraduate, Bar Ilan University

Art and Kabbalah – Primary Perspectives, undergraduate, Bar Ilan University

Rich Man, Poor Man: Social Status in Art, undergraduate, Bar Ilan University

Art and Cinema, undergraduate, Bar Ilan University

Christian Sources for Art, undergraduate, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

(a) Research students

Post-Doc

Since 2017 Liat Sides, “Egyptian Jewry from an Aesthetic Perspective of Family

Albums”

Ph.D

Since 2014 Guy Shaked, “Music, Image and Text in Hebrew Manuscripts of the

Middle Ages,” Bar Ilan University, recipient of the President

scholarship. Together with Dr. Ilia Rodov

Since 2017 Ruti Rubinstein, “Judaism in Contemporary Art of Israeli and American

Jewish Artists,” recipient of the Negev Scholarship. Together with Dr.

Merav Yerushalmi

Since 2017 Roni Tzoreff, “Contemporary Jewish Feminist Artists,” recipient of the

Negev Scholarship. Together with Dr. Ronit Milano

M.A

Since 2018 Lee Rosenfeld

Since 2018 Tomer Dekel, together with Prof. Haviva Pedaya

Since 2018 Yael Peer

Since 2017 Ester Ben Israel

Since 2017 Edgardo Bilikis

Since 2017 Shoshana Harary Engelberg

Since 2017 Violeta Riechman, together with Prof. Shamir Yona

Since 2016 Maya Betzalel

Since 2016 Yiska Raveh, together with Dr. Nirit Shalev-Khalifa

Since 2016 Yael Kaufmann, together with Dr. Nirit Shalev-Khalifa

Since 2015 Moran Riter

2017 Albert Yaakobov, “The Artwork of the Balkhar Tribe in the Post-Soviet Period: Between the Local culture and Global and Regional Relations”

[Hebrew]

• Awards, Citations, Honors, Fellowships

(a) Honors, Citation Awards

2016 Exultance in Teaching Award, Bar Ilan University

2000 Certificate of Appreciation from The Faculty of Humanities and Social

Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

(b) Fellowships

2015 ISF (Israel Science Foundation). Development grant together with

Dr. Ilia Rodov and Dr. Mirjam Rajner

2014-2015 ISF (Israel Science Foundation). Development grant together with

Dr. Ilia Rodov and Dr. Mirjam Rajner

2013-2015 ISF (Israel Science Foundation). Research grant together with Dr.

Ilia Rodov

2009-2010 VATAT, Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Bar-Ilan University.

2009-2010 SICSA, Research grant The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2007-2008 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Doctoral grant

2006-2007 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, The Faculty of Humanities and

Social Sciences, Scholarship

2001 The Ministry of Education, Scholarship

Scientific Publications

(a) Authored books

1. * Offenberg S., 2018, Antisemitism and the Jewish Response in the Art and Literature

of Thirteenth Century France, Jerusalem: SICSA, The Hebrew University of

Jerusalem, 250p. (under contract)

2. Offenberg S., 2013, Illuminated Piety: Pietistic Texts and Images in the North French

Hebrew Miscellany, 19333-79391, Los Angeles: Cherub Press, 232 pages.

(b) Edited Journals

1. Offenberg S., Yaniv B., Rodov I., Rajner M.,, 2017, Ars Judaica: Journal of

Jewish Art, vol. 13


Jewish Art, vol. 12


Jewish Art, vol. 11


Jewish Art, vol. 10

(c) Refereed Chapters in collective volumes - Conference proceedings, Festschriften

1. “Purim like Yom Kippurim: Between the Texts and Images of the London Miscellany

and R. Elazar the Preacher’s Commentary on Exodus,” in: Exodus: Border Crossings

in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Texts and Images, ed. Annette Hoffmann, Heidelberg

and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (forthcoming 2018).

2. “Resisting Conversion or the True Aristocrat: Jews Imagining Themselves in Hebrew

Illuminated Manuscripts,” Sefer ha-Yovel for Burton D. Morris, ed. Menachem Butler,

New York, 15 p. (forthcoming 2018).

3. “Staging the Blindfold Bride: Between Medieval Drama and Piyyut Illumination in the

Levy Mahzor,” in: Resounding Images: Medieval Intersections of Art, Music and

Sound, eds. Susan Boynton and Diane J. Reilly, Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols 2015, pp.

281-294. Winner of Ruth A. Solie Award of the American Musicological Society.

4. “Mirroring Samson the Martyr: Reflections of Jewish-Christian Relations in the North

French Hebrew Illuminated Miscellany,” in: Jews and Christians in Thirteenth Century

Europe, eds. Elisheva Baumgarten and Judah Galinsky, Palgrave Macmillan 2015, pp.

203-216.

(c) Refereed articles and refereed letters in scientific journals

1. “The Lady and the Knight: Unique Iconography in the Ashkenazi Rylands

Haggadah” Journal of Semitic Studies 64 (2018) forthcoming.

2. “‘And He put on righteousness as a coat of mail, and a helmet of salvation upon His

head”: Double Meaning of Warriors in the Haggadah from the British Library, Add.

14761,” Pe’amim 150-152 (2017), pp. 315-339 (in Hebrew).

3. “On a Pious Man, Adulteress Wife, and the Pleasure of Preaching to Others in Isaac

Ibn Sahula’s Meshal Haqadmoni,” Hispania Judaica Journal 12 (2016), pp. 103-

125

4. “Jacob the Knight in Ezekiel’s Chariot: Imagined Identity in a Micrography

Decoration of an Ashkenazi Bible,” AJS Review 40/1 (2016), pp. 1-16.

5. “Isaac Ibn Sahula and King Alfonso X: Possible Connections between the Book

Meshal Haqadmoni and the Cántigas de Santa Maria,” Arts and Social Sciences

Journal 5/3 (2014), pp. 1-7.

6. “Creation, Eschatology, and the Temple in the London Hebrew Miscellany,” Gesta

53/1 (2012), 41p. (Accepted).

7. “A Jewish Knight in Shining Armor: Messianic Narrative and Imagination in

Ashkenazic Illuminated Manuscripts,” The University of Toronto Journal of Jewish

Thought 4 (2014), pp. 1-14.

8. “Crossing over from Earth to Heaven: The Image of the Ark and the Merkavah in

the North French Hebrew Miscellany,” Kabbalah 26 (2012), pp. 135-158.

9. “Illuminations of Kol Nidrei in two Ashkenazi Mahzorim,” Ars Judaica 7 (2011),

pp. 7-16.

(f) Unrefereed professional articles and publications

1. “North French Hebrew Miscellany,” Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Cultures, Brill 2018.

Forthcoming.

2. “Death Pleases her: Elation at the Synagogue's Death,” Keep it Light: The Jerusalem

Biennale, Curators: Dr. Shirat-Miriam Shamir, Ido Noy, Jerusalem 2017, pp. 16-23.

3. Former Synagogues and Host-Miracle Shrines in Germany and Austria: on Mitchell B.

Merback, Pilgrimage and Pogrom: Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-

Miracle Shrines of Germany and Austria, in: Ars Judaica 11 (2015), pp. 91-92.

4. Book Review: David M. Freidenreich, Foreigners and Their Food - Contstructing

Otherness in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Law, in: Der Islam - Zeitschrift für

Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients 90 (2013), pp. 159-161.

5. Book Review: Marc Michael Epstein, The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and

Religious Imagination, in: Jewish History 27/1 (2013), pp. 91-94.

6. “All the Roads Lead to Jerusalem: Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Wing for Jewish

Art and Life at the Israel Museum,” Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual

Culture 5 (2011), pp. 107-109.

7. To See and be Seen: Nava Astarhan,” in the exhibition catalogue Matza Nashi, ed.

Maor Haim, Beer Sheva 2002, pp. [3-6] (Hebrew).

(a) Lectures and Presentations at Meetings and Invited Seminars Invited plenary lectures at conferences/meetings/ seminars

1. “Illustrated Secret: Esoteric Traditions and Micrography in Medieval Erfurt,”

Masora Figurata, International Workshop, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien

Heidelberg (May 2018) (invited lecture)

2. “Stating Anti-Semitism: Host Desecrations and Blood Libels in Art and Drama,”

An End to Anti-Semitism, International Conference, University of Vienna (February

2018) (invited lecture)

3. “Text and Image in Meshal HaQadmoni,” Book Launch Event Honor: Revital

Refael-Vivante, Treasury of Fables, Ramat Gan 2017, (in Hebrew) (January 2018)

(invited lecture)

4. “‘And He put on righteousness as a coat of mail, and a helmet of salvation upon His

head”: Double Meaning of Warriors in the Barcelona Haggadah,” The Ladino

Knight: The 13th Meeting of the Ladino Society, Ben-Gurion University of the

Negev (in Hebrew) (December 2017) (invited lecture)

5. “Daniel in the Lion’s Den: Jewish-Christian Polemics in Text and Image,”

Conference in Honor of Prof. Daniel J. Lasker, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

(in Hebrew) (November 2017) (invited lecture)

6. “The Return to Zion: Views of Jerusalem in Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts from

Bohemia and Moravia,” International Workshop on Jerusalem in Art, Jerusalem —

Eternal Source of Artistic Inspiration, 2nd Czech-Israeli Colloquium, Institute of Art

History, Academy of Science in Prague (September 2017) (invited lecture)

7. “‘A Tower Floating in the Air’: Jewish Views of the Medieval Urban

Space,” Visual and Material in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Culture,

International Workshop, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (July 2017)

(invited lecture)

8. “‘All the World's a Stage’: Imagined Jewish Rituals in Medieval Christian Art and

Drama,” International Workshop, Shared Ritual Practices and Divided

Historiography: Media, Phenomena, Topoi, Universität Erfurt (June 2017) (invited

lecture)

9. “‘When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do:’ On Some Hebrew Illuminated

Manuscripts of the Bible in Renaissance Italy,” The Bible in the Renaissance

International Conference, IAS Jerusalem, (May 2017) (invited lecture)

10. “From the Margins to the Center: Hasidei Ashkenaz in Text and Image,” Sefer

Hasidim in Context, International Conference, IAS Jerusalem, (March 2017)

(invited lecture)

11. “A Tale of a Lady, a Knight and Illuminated Haggadah,” Book Launch Event

Honor: Vered Tohar, The Book of Tales, Sermons and Legends (Ferrara 1554),

Jerusalem 2016, (in Hebrew) (March 2017) (invited lecture)

12. “Animal Attraction: Hidden Polemics in Medieval Illustrations of Biblical

Animals,” Biblical Creatures. The animal as an object of interpretation in pre-

modern Jewish and Christian hermeneutic traditions. Freie Universität Berlin,

(December 2016) (invited lecture)

13. “Beyond Davidic Messianism: On complex Redemption Notions in Hebrew

Illuminated Manuscripts from Ashkenaz,” Perceptions and Receptions of King

David and his Book in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, International Conference,

University of Warsaw (October 2016) (invited lecture)

14. Keynote lecture: “Defining Jewish Art: A Challenging Task,” International

Workshop on Jewish Art, Institute of Art History, Academy of Science in Prague

(October 2016) (invited lecture)

15. “Realistic Fantasia: Truth and Fiction in Medieval Art,” Colloquium of the Jewish

Literature Department, Bar-Ilan University, (in Hebrew) (May 2016) (invited

lecture)

16. “The Secret Within the Picture: Deciphering Hidden Textual Meanings in

Ashkenazi Illuminated Mahzorim,” Colloquium of the Jewish Thought Department,

Bar-Ilan University, (in Hebrew) (November 2015) (invited lecture)

17. “Beauty and the Beast: Esthetics, Morals and Polemic in Miniature Paintings of

Animals,” Berechia Hanaqdan and Medieval and Early Modern fable lore and

moralizing literature International Workshop ISF-IAS Conference at IAS,

Jerusalem (November 2015) (invited lecture)

18. “Once Upon a Time there was a Painting: Illuminations of the Bible and

Midrash,” Colloquium of the Comparative Literature Department Bar-Ilan

University, (in Hebrew) (May 2015) (invited lecture)

19. Two Sides of the Same Coin: Christian Aristocratic Motifs in Hebrew Illuminated

Manuscripts,” The Jewish Neighborhood. International Conference, Tel Aviv

University, (April 2015) (invited lecture)

20. “Illuminated Midrash: Reflections of the Aggadah in the illuminations of Esther

Scrolls,” Book Launch Event Honor: Midrash Esther Rabbah, eds. Joseph Tabory

and Arnon Atzmon, Jerusalem 2014, (in Hebrew) (March 2015) (invited lecture)

21. “On Symbolic Animals in Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts,” Colloquium of the

Jewish Art Department, Bar-Ilan University, (in Hebrew) (January 2015) (invited

lecture)

22. “Moshe in Art, Paintings and Stories,” International workshop, Swedish

Theological Institute (June 2014) (invited lecture)

23. “The Image of the Hassid in Art, Theatre and Cinema,” The Faculty of Jewish

Studies Congress, Bar-Ilan University (in Hebrew), (June 2014) (invited lecture)

24. “Mystery and Love in Jewish Art,” A Time for Judaism and Knowledge, The

Faculty of Jewish Studies Conference, Bar-Ilan University (in Hebrew), (March


25. “Samson of Metz and the Biblical Samson in the North French Hebrew

Miscellany,” Martyrology: Characters, Perceptions and Ideologies, Forum for

Medieval and Early Modern Culture, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, (in

Hebrew) (March 2013) (invited lecture)

26. “Biblical Characters: Art as Commentary,” Biblical Characters in Islamic

Paintings of Indian, Colloquium of the Jewish Art Department, Bar-Ilan University,

(December 2012) (invited lecture)

27. “The Triple Messiah in the Thirteenth Century: Son of Joseph, Son of David, and

Anti-Messiah,” Traditions and Perspectives in History of Jewish Art, International

Conference, Bar Ilan University, (September 2012)

28. “Text and Image in Illuminated Mahzorim and Their Meaning in Medieval

Ashkenazi Synagogue,” Summer School, Lander Institute, (in Hebrew) (July 2012)

(invited lecture)

29. “Law & Order of Work: Text, Image and Practice of the Seder Avodah in the

London Miscellany,” Minhagim: Custom and Practice in Jewish Life, International

Conference, Tel-Aviv University, (May 2012) (invited lecture)

30. “Self Acceptance: Between the Sign of Cain and Jewish Self Image,” Dioknaot:

the Sign of Cain, Exhibition Opening and Conference, Ben-Gurion University of

the Negev, (in Hebrew) (April 2012) (invited lecture)

31. “Between Birkat Ha-Minim and Desecrating an Icon: Jewish-Christian Relations in

13th Century Castile,” Middle Ages, Now! The Annual Israeli Historians

Conference, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, (in Hebrew) (March 2012)

(invited lecture)

32. “Between Hekhalot Literature, Sefer Gematriot and the North French Hebrew

Miscellany,” Seminar of the Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University

of the Negev, (in Hebrew) (November 2011) (invited lecture)

33. “Illuminated and Written Polemic: Jewish-Christian Relations in Medieval Jewish

Art and Literature,” Seminar of the Department of Arts, Ben-Gurion University of

the Negev, (in Hebrew) (June 2011) (invited lecture)

34. “The London Miscellany as a Mirror: Reflections of Jewish-Christian Relations in

13th Century French Art and Literature,” 13th Century France, Continuity and

Change, ISF-IAS Conference at IAS, Jerusalem, (February 2011) (invited lecture)

35. “‘It Was Turned to the Contrary’: Inverted Scenes at the Michael Mahzor,”

Colloquium of the Interdepartmental Division of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan

University, (in Hebrew) (Mars 2010) (invited lecture)

36. “The Subjects of the King Under the Fourth Kingdom: Jewish-Christian Polemic

in the Liturgical Poems and Illumination for the High Holy Days,” Seminar of the

Department of Jewish History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, (in Hebrew)

(January 2009) (invited lecture)

37. “The Deer Hunt in the Worms Mahzor: The Illustration of a Liturgical Poem and

Jewish-Christian Polemics,” Art as Historical Text, International workshop,

Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, (May 2007) (invited

lecture)

38. “Expressions of the Jewish-Christian Polemic in the Illuminations of Ashkenazic

Mahzorim in the Middle Ages,” Seminar of the Department of Jewish Thought,

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, (in Hebrew) (January 2007) (invited lecture)

39. “Passover, Matza and Blood: Illuminated Blood Libels,” Passover: Blood Libels,

Hametz, and Haggadah, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, (in Hebrew) (March


40. “‘Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image’ - Really? The Halachic

Approach to Art during the Ages,” Daromah Beit Midrash, Ben-Gurion University

of the Negev, (in Hebrew) (January 2005) (invited lecture)

(b) Presentation of papers at conferences/meetings

1. “Marginal Centrality: Portraying Nobility in Jewish Medieval Visual Culture,”

International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, (July 2018)

2. “‘Better is the Sight of the Eyes than the Wandering of the Desire’: On

Micrography Decoration in the Erfurt Bible 1212,” The Seventeenth World

Congress of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University, (August 2017)

3. “The Lady and the Knight: On Unique Iconography in the Haggadah of John

Rylands University Library, Ms. 7,” ‘The Other Within’ – The Hebrew and Jewish

Collections of the John Rylands Library, International Conference, The John

Rylands Library, Manchester (June 2016)

4. “Who is a Hero? From the Image of the Villain to the Hero in Illuminations of

Knights in Hebrew Manuscripts,” Violence and Resistance in Folk Culture and Art,

Conference, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (in Hebrew) (April 2016)

5. “Divide and Conquer: Deconstructing the Art from its ‘Jewishness’ and

Reconstructing a contextual Meaning in Medieval Art History,” Constructing and

Deconstructing Jewish Art, International Conference, Bar-Ilan University,

(September 2015)

6. “The Double Messiah in Text and Image: The Son of Joseph, the Son of David, and

the Jewish-Christian Polemic,” International Medieval Congress, University of

Leeds, (July 2015)

7. Research workshop, “Imagining Medieval Jewish Life in Word and Image,” The

British Library, London, (March 2015)

8. “The Empire and the Jews: Symbols of the Holy Roman Empire in Hebrew

Illuminated Manuscripts,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds,

(July 2014)

9. “A King, a Temple, and Amalek in the Texts and Illuminations of the North French

Hebrew Miscellany,” Text-image Relationship and Visual Elements in Written

Hebrew Sources, International Conference, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien

Heidelberg (November 2013)

10. “Up in Arms: Pretend Identity of Jewish Warriors in Ashkenazic Illuminated,” The

Sixteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University, (August

2013)

11. “Naughty Women and the Pleasure of Preaching to Others in Isaac Ibn

Sahula’s Meshal Haqadmoni,” International Medieval Congress, University of

Leeds, (July 2013)

12. “Staging the Blindfold Bride: Between Medieval Drama and Piyyut Illumination in

the Levy Mahzor,” IMAGO (Israeli Association for Visual Culture in the Middle

Ages), International Conference, Bar-Ilan University, (March 2012)

13. “Crossing over from Earth to Heaven: The Image of the Ark and Merkavah in

the London Miscellany,” Exodus: Border Crossings in Jewish, Christian and

Islamic Texts and Images Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Karl-Jaspers-Centre,

Heidelberg, (December 2010)

14. “Inverted Hunt Scene: Motifs of the Jewish-Christian Polemic in the Illumination

of the Liturgical Poem El Mitnase,” The Fifteenth World Congress of Jewish

Studies, The Hebrew University, (August 2009)

15. “Resisting Conversion or the True Aristocrat: Jews Imagining Themselves in

Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts,” International Medieval Congress, University of

Leeds, (July 2009)

16. “Isaac Ibn Sahula and King Alfonso X: Possible Connections between the Book

Meshal HaQadmoni and the Cántigas de Santa Maria,” IMAGO (Israeli

Association for Visual Culture in the Middle Ages), Open University, (in Hebrew)

(June 2009)

17. “The ‘Four Kingdoms’ and Yom Kippur: The Illumination of Kol Nidrei in

Ashkenazi Mahzorim,” The Jewish Presence in Art, International workshop, Bar

Ilan University, (June 2008)

18. “Not Just a Wedding Scene: The Illumination of the Liturgical Poem Come with me

from Lebanon my Bride in the Worms Mahzor and the Jewish-Christian Polemic,”

International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, (July 2007)

Organization of Conferences & Charring

1. Moderator: “Medieval Provençal and Sephardi Texts between Secular Culture and

Religion, II” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, (July 2018).

2. Moderator: “Remembering Jerusalem in Central Europe” International Medieval

Congress, University of Leeds, (July 2018).

3. Organizer, Interuniversity Conference “The Bible in Text and Image” (together

with Prof. Shamir Yona) Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, (March 2018).

4. Organizer of a session: Medieval Manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible IV:

Micrographic decoration in the 13th-14th centuries. Between Art and Personal

Agenda (together with Dr. Rainer Josef Barzen). The Seventeenth World Congress

of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University, (August 2017).

5. Organizer, Interuniversity Conference “Tseno Ureno: Self-Identity in the Art of

Israeli Religious Women,” Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, (April 2017).

6. Organizer, Interuniversity Conference, “Art and Kabbalah,” Bar-Ilan University,

(June 2016).

7. Organizer, Interuniversity Colloquium: “The Illuminated Book in the Middle Ages

and the 21st Century,” Bar-Ilan University, (April 2016) (in Hebrew).

8. Organizer of the Department of Jewish Art Seminar 2015-2016, Bar Ilan University

(in Hebrew).

9. Organizer and Member of Academic Committee (together with Dr. Mirjam Rajner

and Dr. Ilia Rodov). International Conference: “Constructing and Deconstructing

Jewish Art,” Bar-Ilan University, (September 2015).

10. Organizer of two sessions at the International Medieval Congress, University of

Leeds, (July 2015):

a. Redemption in Medieval Ashkenaz: Elijah and Jewish-Christian Polemic

b. Messianic Redemption in Medieval Ashkenaz: Festival Book Prayer and

Hanukkah

11. Member of Academic Committee: “Speculation, Imagination, and Misinterpretation

in Art,” IMAGO International Conference, Tel Aviv University, (March 2015).

12. Organizer and Member of Academic Committee (together with Dr. Judah

Galinsky): “Middle Ages, Now!” The Annual Israeli Historians Conference, Bar

Ilan University, (in Hebrew) (March 2014).

13. Member of Academic Committee: “East & West in Medieval and Early Modern

Art,” IMAGO International Conference, Ben Gurion University of the Negev,

(January 2014).

14. Moderator: Text-image Relationship and Visual Elements in Written Hebrew

Sources, International Conference, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg

(November 2013).

15. Moderator: “Material Witnesses: Text and Image in Hebrew and Arabic

Manuscripts,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, (July 2013).

16. Member of Academic Committee: “Capturing Light in Late Antique, Medieval and

Early Modern Art,” IMAGO International Conference, University of Haifa,

(January 2013).

17. Chairperson: “Of Art and Nature,” Traditions and Perspectives in History of

Jewish Art, International Conference, Bar Ilan University, (September 2012).

18. Chairperson: “Criminology and Society”, Dioknaot: the Sign of Cain Conference,

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, (in Hebrew) (April 2012).

19. Organizer and Member of Academic Committee (together with Dr. Shulamit

Laderman): “Art and Performance in the Middle Ages,” IMAGO International

Conference, Bar-Ilan University, (March 2012).

LANGUAGES READING WRITING

Hebrew Excellent Excellent

English Excellent Excellent

Rumanian Good Fair

French Good Fair

German Fair Fair

Yiddish Fair Fair

Italian Fair

Spanish Fair

Aramaic Fair

Latin Fair

Media Appearances

Hasidic Ideas as Expressed in Medieval Jewish Art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qJju-U_UDI

Divide and Conquer: Deconstructing “Jewishness” and Reconstructing Contextual

Meaning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1shOloZu5OA

Biblical Characters: Art as Commentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnXd-wo0niw

Кто над нами вверх ногами, или История одного перевертыша

“Who is upside down over us, or The Story of a palindrome”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qJju-U_UDI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1shOloZu5OA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnXd-wo0niw

https://www.academia.edu/5939809/%D0%9A%D1%82%D0%BE_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8_%D0%B2%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85_%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8_%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8_%D0%98%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%88%D0%B0

http://booknik.ru/today/reports/kto-nad-nami-vverh-nogami-ili-istoriya-odnogo-

perevertysha/

Shield of David: Jewish Knights (Hebrew)

http://biu.ac.il/extrel/barsiachV3Feb2016/index.html#p=35

Knights, Dragons and Dungeons in Art and Game (Hebrew)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4FrwG0qNBs

Early Illuminated Haggadot (Hebrew)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqjqsav0V14

Illuminated Midrash: Reflections of the Aggadah in the illuminations of Esther

Scrolls (Hebrew)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEEtSyK3BX0

The Image of the Hassid in Art, Theatre and Cinema (Hebrew)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW00tgCS7ww

Mystery and Love in Jewish Art (Hebrew)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f-Fz7vP374

http://booknik.ru/today/reports/kto-nad-nami-vverh-nogami-ili-istoriya-odnogo-perevertysha/

http://booknik.ru/today/reports/kto-nad-nami-vverh-nogami-ili-istoriya-odnogo-perevertysha/

http://biu.ac.il/extrel/barsiachV3Feb2016/index.html#p=35

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4FrwG0qNBs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqjqsav0V14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEEtSyK3BX0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW00tgCS7ww

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f-Fz7vP374

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