Symposia, Guest Lectures and Events

Studies and Research of Jewish Art and Art History in Contemporary Israel: Revisiting the Way

Academic Symposia, Guest Lectures and Events, 2013–15

 

 

Symposia and Colloquia

 

November 12, 2013

 

“Documentation and Preservation of the Synagogues in Israel: Between the Field Work and the Research” (DJA, BIU with ICOMOS-Israel, and the Center for Jewish Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

 

Dr Vladimir Levin, Director of The Center for Jewish Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Documentation and Research of Synagogues at the Academic Center: Approaches and Methods

 

Mr Shai Farkash, Head of the Committee for documentation and preservation of wall paintings and color in architecture, ICOMOS-Israel

Documentation and Preservation of the Synagogue Art as Part of the Preservation of the Heritage and Cultural Property

 

Dr Ilia Rodov, Chair, DJA BIU; member of ICOMOS

The Family Archives and the National Memory: the Sculptor Joseph Dinaburg and his Artistic Creation in the Synagogues

 

 

December 10, 2013

Colloquium and opening of the exhibition: "The Walls Can Talk" 

Moderator: Prof. Emerita Bracha Yaniv, DJA BIU

 

Dr Tamar Shadmi, DJA BIU graduate

Inscriptions on the Walls in the 17th- and 18th-Century East-European Synagogues

 

April 28, 2014

Colloquium and opening of the exhibition: "The Motherhood in Crisis during the Holocaust and in its Aftermath as Reflected in Art"

Moderator: Dr Mor Presiado, DJA BIU

 

Dr Mor Presiado, DJA BIU

Aftermath of the Holocaust in Einat Friedman's Art

 

Einat Friedman, artist

My Works about the Holocaust

 

April 29, 2014

 

Colloquium: “The Tombstones Talk: Sepulchral Art in Romania” (DJA BIU with the Center for Romanian Culture in Tel-Aviv and the National Village Museum, Bucharest, Romania)

Moderator: Dr. Gina Pana, Director, the Center for Romanian Culture in Tel-Aviv

 

Dr Paula Popoyo, director of the National Village Museum, Bucharest, Romania

Romanian Tombstones: Customs and Art

 

Dr Ilia Rodov, Chair, DJA BIU

Jewish Tombstones in Romanian Moldavia

 

November 4, 2014 (Beit Hatfutsot: The Museum of the Jewish People)

 

Symposium and Round Table, "When the Past Meets the Present: History and Jewish Art at the Contemporary Museum” (DJA BIU with Beit Hatfutsot: The Museum of the Jewish People),

 

Organizers:  Dr. Mirjam Rajner and Dr Ilia Rodov, DJA BIU.

 

Key Lecture:

Prof. Moshe Rosman, History Department, Bar-Ilan University

Jewish History Museums: The Art of the History

 

Round Table Discussion:

Jewish Art Meets the Israeli Audience

Moderator:      Dr. Mirjam Rajner, DJA BIU

Participants:

Dr Orit Shaham-Gover, Director, Beit Hatfutsot

Dr Batsheva Ida Goldman, Curator, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art

Dvora Liss, Curator, Mishkan LeOmanut Museum, Ein Harod

Nurit Sirkis Bank, Curator, Wolfsohn Museum for Jewish Art, Hechal Shlomo, Jerusalem

Svetlana Reingold, Curator, Mane-Katz Museum and Herman Struck Museum, Haifa

Ronit Sorek, Curator, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

 

 

January 6, 2015

 

Colloquium: Allegoric Animals in Images and Texts 

Organizer and moderator: Dr. Ilia Rodov, DJA BIU

 

Dr Ilya Dines, The Open University

Medieval Illuminated Bestiaria

           

            Dr Sara Ofenberg, DJA BIU

            On Symbolic Animals in Medieval Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts

 

January 27, 2015

 

Conference: Jewish Art in Contemporary Israel (DJA BIU with the Administration for Religious Education, the Ministry of Education)

Organizer: Dr. Ilia Rodov, DJA BIU; Mrs Orna Segal and Mrs Revital Shtern, the Administration for Religious Education

 

Dr. Nira Tessles, Talpiot College, Holon

Self-portait of a Young Artist and Consolidation of Personal Artistic Self-identification: The Case of Reuven Rubin

 

Dr. Mor Presiado, DJA BIU

Meta-Generation Memory in the Artwork of Holocaust Survivors' Daughters

 

David Sperber , Gender Studies, Bar-Ilan University

"Women's Court of Justice": Feminist Activism in Contemporary Jewish Art 

 

Dr Irit Miller, History of Art Department, Haifa University

Avram Kampf: Educator, Historian and Curator of Jewish Art

 

May 26, 2015 (forthcoming)

 

Colloquium of PhD Students: Animal Allegories in Jewish Art: Monkey, Dog and Ostrich

Organizer and moderator: Dr. Ilia Rodov, DJA BIU

 

Leor Jacobi, BIU

"By a Monkey": Human-Like and Monkeys and Monkey-Falconers in Halakhah, Aggadah and Art

 

Chana Shacham-Rosby, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Elijah the Prophet: A "Guarding Dog" of Israel 

 

Zvi Orgad, DJA BIU

Mystery of an Ostrich in Eliezer-Zussman's Paintings

 

“From the Researcher’s Desk” Series of Lectures

Moderator: Dr. Mirjam Rajner, DJA BIU

 

October 29, 2013

 

Nurit Sirkis Bank, Curator of the Wolfsohn Museum for Jewish Art at the Hechal Shlomo, Jerusalem; Ph.D. student, DJA BIU

Ceremony as Text: the Visual Culture of the Contemporary Hassidic Weddings in Israel

 

December 24, 2013

 

Dr Eyal Baruch, DJA BIU

Amphora as a Decorative Motif in Ancient Jewish Art

 

April 1, 2014

 

Dr Eliya Bartal, DJA BIU; Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design

The Pretty Woman Wore a Shoe: Psychoanalytic Analysis of Cinderella and her Shoe in the Films "The Pretty Woman" and "Catch the Bride"

 

March 4, 2014

 

Dr Ronit Steinberg, Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design; Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies, Jerusalem

Secrets Hidden in the Public Space: Micha Ulman's Artistic Creation

 

“Creating and Curating Jewish Art in Post-Modern Era” Series of Guest Lectures

Moderator: Dr. Mirjam Rajner

 

November 18, 2014

 

Dr Andreina Contessa, Chief Curator, The U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art, Jerusalem

History of the Collection: The Museum of Italian Jews in Jerusalem

 

December 2, 2014

 

Dr Batsheva Ida Goldman, Curator, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art

From the Research to the Exhibition

 

December 30, 2014

 

Prof. Alisa Cohen-Mushlin, The Center for Jewish Art, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

History of The Center for Jewish Art: Research, Documentation, Publication

 

January 13, 2015

 

Niv Goldberg, Art Collections Curator, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

History of the Art Collection at the Museums’ Department in Yad Vashem

 

 

Foreign Guest Lectures

Moderator: Dr. Mirjam Rajner

 

December 9, 2013

Dr Przemysław Strożek, Polish Academy of Sciences

Sport and Visual Culture in Weimar Germany

 

March 24, 2014

 

Dr Marina Dmitrieva, Institute of the Central and East-European History and Culture, University of Leipzig, Germany

East-European Jewish Artists in Berlin during the 1920s and 1930s

 

March 23, 2015

 

Prof. Roman Grigoriyev, History of Art Department, The European University, St. Petersburg

Orientalism in Rembrandt’s Art

 

 

Book Presentations

 

November 26, 2013

 

Sara Offenberg, Illuminated Piety, Pietistic Texts and Images in the Northern French Hebrew Manuscripts (Cherub Press: Academic Publishers of Studies and Editions of Jewish Mystical Literature, 2013)

 

Moderator: Dr. Ilia Rodov, DJA BIU

 

Lecturers:

Prof. Katrin Kogman-Apel, the Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Dr Peter Lander, the Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

 

Respondent:

Dr. Sara Offenberg, DJA BIU

 

January 7, 2014

 

Dr Shulamit Laderman, Images of Cosmology in Jewish and Byzantine Art (Leiden: Brill, 2013)

 

Moderator: Dr. Ilia Rodov, DJA BIU

 

Lecturers:

Prof. Moshe Idel, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Hartman Institute

Prof. Daniel Sperber, Bar-Ilan University

 

Respondent:

Dr Shulamit Laderman, DJA BIU; Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies, Jerusalem

 

 

March 18, 2014

 

Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, Giedrė Mickūnaite, Sergey Kravtsov, Vladimir Levin, Jurgita Šiauciūnaitė-Verbickienė, Synagogues in Lithuania: A Catalogue, 2 Vols. (Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts Press, 2010-2012)

Moderator: Dr. Ilia Rodov, DJA BIU

 

Greetings:

Prof. Eliahu Assis, Dean, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University

H.E. Mr Darius Degutis, the Ambassador of Lithuania in Israel

 

Lecturers:

Prof. Shaul Stampfer, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prof. Mordechai Zalkin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

 

Respondents:

Dr Vladimir Levin, director, the Center for Jewish Art, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dr Sergei Kravtsov, the Center for Jewish Art, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

 

Artists and Art Critics Meet Together in Bar-Ilan

Organizer: Dr. Mirjam Rajner, DJA BIU

 

May 13, 2014

 

“And You Shall Tell Your Daughter," Meeting with the artist Dvora Morag and art historian Dr. Mor Presiado

Moderator:  Dr Mor Presiado, DJA BIU

 

March 10, 2015

 

Meeting with the artist Michael Grobman and art historian Dr Lola Kantor-Kazovski, History of Art Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Moderator: Dr. Ilia Rodov

 

April 14, 2015

 

Meeting with the artist Tuli Ziv and art historian Dr Batya Brutin, Art College Beit Berl

Moderator: Dr. Mirjam Rajner, DJA BIU

 

 

April 28, 2015

 

Meeting with the artist Sigalit Landau and art critic David Sperber, Bar-Ilan University

Moderator: Dr. Mirjam Rajner, DJA BIU

 

 

 

May 12, 2015

Meeting with the artist Michael Yahilevich and graduate student of DJA BIU

Inna Gorshtein

Moderator: Dr. Ilia Rodov, DJA BIU

 

May 26, 2015 (forthcoming)

 

Meeting with the artist Jacob Busidan and art historian Ruth Busidan, History of Art Department, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Moderator: Dr. Mirjam Rajner, DJA BIU