Books, Articles, Chapters by Ilia Rodov
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This article investigates the images of paired scrolling patterns recurring in the design of Jewish ritual spaces and objects. It explores a facet of non-narrative visual expression within Jewish visual culture. The chronologically and geographically disconnected depictions of similar paired scrolled patterns on Jewish artifacts exemplify the process of creating and recreating symbolic meanings based on the mimetic qualities of an image. In their various renditions and contexts, volutes in their resemblance to growing plant branches enacted visual references to the vital powers of nature as a promise for resurrection and a metaphor for the vitality of Judaism and the Mosaic law. The Jewish manifestations of symbolic scrolls emerged in surroundings that maintained classical architectural vocabulary containing volutes and shared the Christian topos of the flourishing cross visualized in its arboreal or vegetative renditions. This very act of construing of a non-narrative visual sign of a couple of spirals aims at reaffirming visual evidence as a meaningful source in its own right.
בעקבות הזמן האבוד: סיפורי מסע של זוסיה עפרון על אמנות יהודית ברומניה, 2023
Jerusalem: The Center for Jewish Art, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2023. 264 pages, 329 fi... more Jerusalem: The Center for Jewish Art, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2023. 264 pages, 329 figures, 22x28 cm. ISBN 978-965-598-360-9
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In 1968, Zussia Efron (1911-2002), the director of the Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein Harod, embarked on expedition to Romania in search of Jewish Heritage. He continued traveling to the country over the following years, capturing hundreds of photographs of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries, as well as penning his experiences and thoughts on Romanian Jewish life under the rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu. The negatives and diaries of Zussia Efron are preserved in the Center for Jewish Art’s archives. This book provides readers with a rare opportunity to get acquainted with his distinctive and significant chronicle of Romanian Jewish life and unique historical images.
The book mentions the cities and towns of Bacău, Bivolari, Botoşani, Bucecea, Bucharest, Buhuşi, Burdujeni, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Constanţa, Darabani, Dobruja, Dorohoi, Drânceni, Fălticeni, Galaţi, Gura Humorului, Hârlău, Huşi, Iacobeni, Iaşi, Iţcani, Lespezi, Mihăileni, Moldovița, Paşcani, Piatra-Neamţ, Pietricica, Podului, Răducăneni, Roman, Sadhora, Săveni, Siret, Solca, Ştefăneşti, Suceava, Sucevița, Suliţa, Târgu-Frumos, Târgu-Neamţ, Timişoara, Truşeşti, Vama, Vânători, Vaslui, Vatra Dornei, Verești, and more.
Rodov, Ilia M., ed., Enshrining the Sacred, (New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 2022)
The volume investigates the stone carved shrines for the scrolls of the Mosaic Law from the mid-s... more The volume investigates the stone carved shrines for the scrolls of the Mosaic Law from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century synagogues in the former Polish Kingdom. Created on the margin of mainstream art and at a crossroad of diverse cultures, artistic traditions, aesthetic attitudes and languages, these indoor architectural structures have hitherto not been the subject of a monographic study. Revisiting and integrating multiple sources, the author re-evaluates the relationship of the Jewish culture in Renaissance Poland with the medieval Jewish heritage, sepulchral art of the Polish court and nobles, and earlier adaptations of the Christian revival of classical antiquity by Italian Jews. The book uncovers the evolution of artistic patronage, aesthetics, expressions of identities, and emerging visions among a religious minority on the cusp of the modern age.
A Taste of Honey: Metaphorizing Nature in Traditional Jewish Art, 2020
Ilia Rodov, "A Taste of Honey: Metaphorizing Nature in Traditional Jewish Art," Journal for the S... more Ilia Rodov, "A Taste of Honey: Metaphorizing Nature in Traditional Jewish Art," Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, Vol 14, No 3 (2020), 370-394.
The production and consumption of honey have inspired linguistic and visual metaphors in letters, folk customs, and the plastic arts. The images conveying the honey metaphor in medieval and modern Jewish art emphasized the operations with and about honey: the human or animal appetite for it and enjoyment in its consumption, as well as its mysterious production and courageous protection by the bees. The natural phenomenon of bee honey and bodily reactions to it was symbolically projected to represent human intellectual learning. Visual implementations of the honey metaphor in Hebrew books and synagogues and on Jewish ritual objects moralized nature in order to propagate aspiration for divine wisdom.
Ranging from scholarly research to personal memoir, the articles collected in this volume provide... more Ranging from scholarly research to personal memoir, the articles collected in this volume provide an eclectic and provocative look at cultural and artistic identity (and identity construction) amid what editors Sergey R. Kravstov and Ilia Rodov describe as the “atmosphere of vivid national consciousness” in pre-World War II Lviv/Lwów/Lemberg, where Ukrainians and Jews formed minority communities in a city dominated by its Polish majority. The insights presented here are especially relevant today, when both the Polish and Jewish minorities have all but disappeared from the city itself, but where the legacy of the Holocaust and communism have created contested memoryscapes amid the surviving urban setting.
Ruth Ellen Gruber, Director of Jewish Heritage Europe
Author of Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe
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Galicia, Bukovina and Other Borderlands in Eastern and Central Europe: Essays on Interethnic Contacts and Multiculturalism (Jews and Slavs, vol. 23), Jerusalem-Siedlce, 2013, 13-34
Ilia Rodov, "Hebrew Inscriptions. Visual Arts and Architecture: Christian Art," in Encyclopedia o... more Ilia Rodov, "Hebrew Inscriptions. Visual Arts and Architecture: Christian Art," in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception: Halah – Hizquni, Volume 11, Eds. Dale C. Allison, Jr., Christine Helmer, Volker Leppin, Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Barry Dov Walfish, Eric J. Ziolkowski (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2015), cols. 631-37.
Ilia Rodov, "Hebrew Inscriptions. Visual Arts and Architecture: Jewish Art," in Encyclopedia of t... more Ilia Rodov, "Hebrew Inscriptions. Visual Arts and Architecture: Jewish Art," in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception: Halah – Hizquni, Volume 11, Eds. Dale C. Allison, Jr., Christine Helmer, Volker Leppin, Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Barry Dov Walfish, Eric J. Ziolkowski (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2015), cols. 624-31.
Sanctifying Texts, Transforming Rituals © , , | . / _ The titles published in this series are lis... more Sanctifying Texts, Transforming Rituals © , , | . / _ The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/bsct Brill's Studies in Catholic Theology
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Books, Articles, Chapters by Ilia Rodov
This article investigates the images of paired scrolling patterns recurring in the design of Jewish ritual spaces and objects. It explores a facet of non-narrative visual expression within Jewish visual culture. The chronologically and geographically disconnected depictions of similar paired scrolled patterns on Jewish artifacts exemplify the process of creating and recreating symbolic meanings based on the mimetic qualities of an image. In their various renditions and contexts, volutes in their resemblance to growing plant branches enacted visual references to the vital powers of nature as a promise for resurrection and a metaphor for the vitality of Judaism and the Mosaic law. The Jewish manifestations of symbolic scrolls emerged in surroundings that maintained classical architectural vocabulary containing volutes and shared the Christian topos of the flourishing cross visualized in its arboreal or vegetative renditions. This very act of construing of a non-narrative visual sign of a couple of spirals aims at reaffirming visual evidence as a meaningful source in its own right.
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In 1968, Zussia Efron (1911-2002), the director of the Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein Harod, embarked on expedition to Romania in search of Jewish Heritage. He continued traveling to the country over the following years, capturing hundreds of photographs of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries, as well as penning his experiences and thoughts on Romanian Jewish life under the rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu. The negatives and diaries of Zussia Efron are preserved in the Center for Jewish Art’s archives. This book provides readers with a rare opportunity to get acquainted with his distinctive and significant chronicle of Romanian Jewish life and unique historical images.
The book mentions the cities and towns of Bacău, Bivolari, Botoşani, Bucecea, Bucharest, Buhuşi, Burdujeni, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Constanţa, Darabani, Dobruja, Dorohoi, Drânceni, Fălticeni, Galaţi, Gura Humorului, Hârlău, Huşi, Iacobeni, Iaşi, Iţcani, Lespezi, Mihăileni, Moldovița, Paşcani, Piatra-Neamţ, Pietricica, Podului, Răducăneni, Roman, Sadhora, Săveni, Siret, Solca, Ştefăneşti, Suceava, Sucevița, Suliţa, Târgu-Frumos, Târgu-Neamţ, Timişoara, Truşeşti, Vama, Vânători, Vaslui, Vatra Dornei, Verești, and more.
The production and consumption of honey have inspired linguistic and visual metaphors in letters, folk customs, and the plastic arts. The images conveying the honey metaphor in medieval and modern Jewish art emphasized the operations with and about honey: the human or animal appetite for it and enjoyment in its consumption, as well as its mysterious production and courageous protection by the bees. The natural phenomenon of bee honey and bodily reactions to it was symbolically projected to represent human intellectual learning. Visual implementations of the honey metaphor in Hebrew books and synagogues and on Jewish ritual objects moralized nature in order to propagate aspiration for divine wisdom.
Ruth Ellen Gruber, Director of Jewish Heritage Europe
Author of Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe
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This article investigates the images of paired scrolling patterns recurring in the design of Jewish ritual spaces and objects. It explores a facet of non-narrative visual expression within Jewish visual culture. The chronologically and geographically disconnected depictions of similar paired scrolled patterns on Jewish artifacts exemplify the process of creating and recreating symbolic meanings based on the mimetic qualities of an image. In their various renditions and contexts, volutes in their resemblance to growing plant branches enacted visual references to the vital powers of nature as a promise for resurrection and a metaphor for the vitality of Judaism and the Mosaic law. The Jewish manifestations of symbolic scrolls emerged in surroundings that maintained classical architectural vocabulary containing volutes and shared the Christian topos of the flourishing cross visualized in its arboreal or vegetative renditions. This very act of construing of a non-narrative visual sign of a couple of spirals aims at reaffirming visual evidence as a meaningful source in its own right.
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In 1968, Zussia Efron (1911-2002), the director of the Mishkan Museum of Art in Ein Harod, embarked on expedition to Romania in search of Jewish Heritage. He continued traveling to the country over the following years, capturing hundreds of photographs of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries, as well as penning his experiences and thoughts on Romanian Jewish life under the rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu. The negatives and diaries of Zussia Efron are preserved in the Center for Jewish Art’s archives. This book provides readers with a rare opportunity to get acquainted with his distinctive and significant chronicle of Romanian Jewish life and unique historical images.
The book mentions the cities and towns of Bacău, Bivolari, Botoşani, Bucecea, Bucharest, Buhuşi, Burdujeni, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Constanţa, Darabani, Dobruja, Dorohoi, Drânceni, Fălticeni, Galaţi, Gura Humorului, Hârlău, Huşi, Iacobeni, Iaşi, Iţcani, Lespezi, Mihăileni, Moldovița, Paşcani, Piatra-Neamţ, Pietricica, Podului, Răducăneni, Roman, Sadhora, Săveni, Siret, Solca, Ştefăneşti, Suceava, Sucevița, Suliţa, Târgu-Frumos, Târgu-Neamţ, Timişoara, Truşeşti, Vama, Vânători, Vaslui, Vatra Dornei, Verești, and more.
The production and consumption of honey have inspired linguistic and visual metaphors in letters, folk customs, and the plastic arts. The images conveying the honey metaphor in medieval and modern Jewish art emphasized the operations with and about honey: the human or animal appetite for it and enjoyment in its consumption, as well as its mysterious production and courageous protection by the bees. The natural phenomenon of bee honey and bodily reactions to it was symbolically projected to represent human intellectual learning. Visual implementations of the honey metaphor in Hebrew books and synagogues and on Jewish ritual objects moralized nature in order to propagate aspiration for divine wisdom.
Ruth Ellen Gruber, Director of Jewish Heritage Europe
Author of Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe
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Непостижимые повороты судьбы привели Танхума Каплана в Иерусалим. Не его самого, к сожалению, а тот мир, который он сохранял своих работах. Как здесь, в Израиле, выглядят грёзы об утраченном еврейском местечке, родившиеся в Советском Союзе? Как израильские художники с советскими корнями вспоминают своё прошлое и выражает своё отношение к наследию восточноевропейских евреев? Обо всём этом шла речь на встрече с искусствоведом Ильей Родовым в окружении работ Каплана на выставке в Бейт Ави Хай.
The devastating war raging in Ukraine affects our consciousness and poses unanswered questions. Are we once again losing the ability to move freely between the “West” and the “East”? Can we view the Jewish past and present in Europe in its full complexity and interconnectivity? The past year felt like being caught in a historical limbo, not knowing what the future will bring, how it will affect our lives or what our future intellectual landscapes will look like… Precisely this current uncertainty presents an opportune moment for reflection on past decades. In this spirit, our colloquium plans to retrospect and examine changes that took place from the 1990s on in the field of Jewish studies.
The fall of the Berlin Wall and with it of communist societies, the unification of Europe, the globalization of the Holocaust, and other events of this era shape our research, knowledge and interpretation. Along with the rise of the digital age, identity politics, and postmodern questions concerning race, gender and ethnicity, academic fields focusing on Jewish cultures and arts experienced significant turns. We plan to address these developments through a series of panels, lectures and discussions.
Tues, 23/5/23
14:30
Gathering
14:45-15:15
Greetings
Shmuel Refael, Dean, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University
Gerald Lamprecht, Head, the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Graz
Ofer Dahan, Head, International School, Bar-Ilan University
Mirjam Rajner, Head, Department of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University
15:15- 15:45
Introduction: The Turn of the 1990s and Studies of Jewish Cultures
Olaf Terpitz, Deputy Head, the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Graz
Panel 1: 16:00-18:00
Memory Studies and Jewish Culture: The Word and the Image
Chair: Michal Ben-Horin, Bar-Ilan University
Participants: Gerald Lamprecht, University of Graz (zoom)
“Jewish Studies and Memory Culture since the 1980s in Central Europe”
Terry Swartzberg, Munich (zoom)
“Stolpersteine: Holocaust Commemoration. Everywhere. All the time. By everybody”
Claire Le Foll, University of Southampton (zoom)
“Belarusian ‘Judaica’ since the 1990s”
Keynote lecture: 18:15- 19:00
Ruth Ellen Gruber, Jewish Heritage Europe (zoom)
“From Creased Old Maps and Faded Photos to Web Sites, Database and Instagram: Changes since the Fall of Communism in how we seek, find, engage with, study, and learn from Jewish heritage sites”
Wed, 24/5/23
Panel 2: 10:00 – 12:00
The Spatial Turn and Jewish Culture
Chair: Sergey Kravtsov, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Participants: Susanne Korbel, University of Graz (zoom)
“The Spatial Turn in Jewish Studies”
Ruthie Kaplan, University of Haifa
“Expanding the Neighborhood: Middle-Class Jewish Life as Expressed in the Urban Landscape of Łódź, Poland, During the Interwar Period”
Rudolf Klein, Óbuda University, Budapest (zoom)
“ ‘Synagogue Renaissance’ after the Fall of the Berlin Wall”
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Panel 3: 12:15-14:15
Reflections on Jewish Languages and Literatures
Chair: Vered Tohar, Bar-Ilan University
Participants: Dov Ber Kotlerman, Bar-Ilan University
“Contemporary Politics of Jewish Heritage: Yiddish in European Public Space”
Roman Katsman, Bar-Ilan University
“Russian-language Israeli Literature before and after the 1990s: Jewish culture in a New Paradigm”
Katja Šmid, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, Madrid) (zoom)
“Novelties in Ladino Studies over the Last Decades (1992-2023)”
Lunch: 14:30 – 16:00
Panel 4: 16:00-18:00
Reflections on Jewish Art and Visual Culture
Chair: Ilia Rodov, Bar-Ilan University
Participants: Zvi Orgad, Bar-Ilan University
“Simulation-Based Exhibition - Taking One Step Backwards?”
Maja Balakirsky Katz, Bar-Ilan University
“The Rise of Archivist-Activists in the 1990s and the Memory of Russian and Soviet Jewry”
Mor Presiado, Bar-Ilan University
“The Emergence of Holocaust Feminist Art at the Turn of the 1990s in the United States and Israel”
18:15-18:30 Concluding Remarks – Olaf Terpitz and Mirjam Rajner
An individual PhD program for 2022–26 academic years may begin by late October 2022.
The Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University invites prospective doctoral candidates to apply for the highly-prized President's Fellowship for the upcoming 2021-22 academic year. The four-year fellowship covers tuition and provides a monthly stipend for living expenses. We anticipate that prospective candidates for the Ph.D. in Jewish Art History Program will specialize in various areas of Jewish Art History, for example: illuminated Jewish books; art and architecture of the synagogue; interfaith dialogue in visual arts; modern Jewish and Israeli art; semiotics of Jewish art; Jewish folk art; personal, gender, social, and national identities as expressed in Jewish and Israeli art, and more. We encourage interdisciplinary research emphasizing art in its historical, social, religious, psychological and other contexts. Proposals incorporating both visual and textual studies are also warmly welcomed. Eligibility requirements: completion of an MA thesis in a related field, or in the final year of MA studies with a thesis submitted by August 31, 2021. GPA: 3.6 (90%) or higher and final thesis grade of no less than 90%. Applicants are encouraged to submit a CV, copies of diplomas and transcripts (BA and MA), and a summary of proposed dissertation topic
The International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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The language of the conference, proposals, lectures, posters, and publications is English. We invite original research that has not be previously presented or published elsewhere.
Please submit your proposal for a 20-minute lecture or poster by October 1, 2019 to [email protected]. In the Subject line, note “AFR Conference Proposal” and the last name of one author (co-authors, if any, will be listed in the proposal).
The proposal to be sent as attached MSWord document, will include:
- presentation title;
- author/s name/s and her, his, or their institutional/academic/business affiliation/s;
- abstract (up to 500 words).
Presentations in abstentia are not possible.
Selected speakers and poster authors will be notified by January 2020.
For the registration, participation fees and payment, visit www.AFR2020TLV.org.
Between Earth and Heaven
Exhibition Catalogue
Curator
Ms. Lea Fish
Bar-Ilan University, Building 410, The Gershon and Judith Leiber Gallery for Jewish Art
April 24, 2018 – October 11, 2018