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Architecture

Chagall
Modern

Beit Alfa Synagogue
Ancient

Mahzor for New Year and Day of Atonement, fol. 19v
Manuscripts

Torah finial_Yemen_San'a_20th c
Ritual Objects

UNESCO Project:
Before Vanishing Forever

Billboard


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אורסולה וקורט שוברט לתצלומי כתבי יד עבריים מאוירים

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ארכיון
 מדור בתי כנסת ותשמישי קדושה

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Pro. Bezalel Narkiss

 

The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art


 

The Ukrainian and Jewish Artistic and Architectural Milieus of Lwów/Lemberg/Lviv: From Ausgleich to the Holocaust 

CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference
November 5-7, 2012, Lviv 
Organized by:
Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv, Ukraine), Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel), Polish Institute of World Art Studies (Warsaw, Poland), The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry (Jerusalem, Israel), Ukrainian Jewish Encounter Initiative (Toronto, Canada)
Deadline for submission: April 1, 2012

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A New Publication by Sergey R. Kravtsov:
Di Gildene Royze
The Turei Zahav Synagogue in L’viv

Di Gildene Royze, known also as the Turei Zahav or the Nachmanowicz Synagogue, was built in 1582 in L’viv, Ukraine. The book Di Gildene Royze, edited by Aliza Cohen-Mushlin and Harmen H. Thies, tells the story of this place of prayer, a center of communal life, a monument of architecture, and a site of Jewish memory.
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A New Publication by the Center for Jewish Art, Beit Tfila and the Vilnius Academy of Arts

The first volume of the catalogue Synagogues in Lithuania, Catalogue, vol. 1
Editors: Aliza Cohen- Mushlin, Sergey Kravtsov, Vladimir Levin, Giedrė Mickūnaite and Jurgita Šiauciūnaitė-Verbickienė (Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts Press, 2010).
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Prof. Aliza Cohen-Mushlin
Prof. Aliza
Cohen-Mushlin

 

3 december 2009


"Hebrew U. Prof. to receive award from German President"


Prof. Bezalel Narkiss. Photo by Dan Porges, Photo Schwartz

Prof. Bezalel
Narkiss
1926-2008

 

"My Path Through Art"

  • The Center for Jewish Art is the world's foremost institution dedicated to the preservation of the Jewish artistic heritage.
  • The Center for Jewish Art's activities include documentation, research, education and publishing.
  • The Center for Jewish Art's major project is "The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art" (former, "The Jerusalem Index of Jewish Art"), an iconographical Jewish art database.

 

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