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Carved Wooden Torah Arks of Eastern Europe (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
Bracha Yaniv
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Description for Carved Wooden Torah Arks of Eastern Europe (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages, 150 illustrations. BIC Classification: AF; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Weight in Grams: 368.
The carved wooden Torah arks found in eastern Europe from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries were magnificent structures, unparalleled in their beauty and mystical significance. The work of Jewish artisans, they dominated the synagogues of numerous towns both large and small throughout the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, inspiring worshippers with their monumental scale and intricate motifs. Virtually none of these superb pieces survived the devastation of the two world wars. Bracha Yaniv's pioneering work therefore breathes new life into a lost genre, making it accessible to scholars and students of Jewish art, Jewish heritage, and religious art more ... Read more
The carved wooden Torah arks found in eastern Europe from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries were magnificent structures, unparalleled in their beauty and mystical significance. The work of Jewish artisans, they dominated the synagogues of numerous towns both large and small throughout the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, inspiring worshippers with their monumental scale and intricate motifs. Virtually none of these superb pieces survived the devastation of the two world wars. Bracha Yaniv's pioneering work therefore breathes new life into a lost genre, making it accessible to scholars and students of Jewish art, Jewish heritage, and religious art more ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
367g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906764371
SKU
V9781906764371
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Ref
99-48
About Bracha Yaniv
Bracha Yaniv is Professor Emerita of Jewish Art History at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and founding editor of Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art. She has published two pioneering books in Hebrew on the history, design, and iconography of ceremonial synagogue objects.
Reviews for Carved Wooden Torah Arks of Eastern Europe (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)
Reviews `Bracha Yaniv has made a meticulous study of lost arks and of the lost Jewish crafts of joinery, woodcarving, painting and gilding that made them possible. She demonstrates that these arks cannot be dismissed as mere folk art. They exhibit a high level of artistic accomplishment.' Sharman Kadish, Jewish Chronicle