Prof. Mirjam Rajner

Articles and Chapters in Books

 

 1. With Richard I. Cohen, "Samuel Hirszenberg's First Steps as an Artist and His Revealing Sketchbook" Adam Klimczak, ed., exhibition catalogue, Hirszenberg Brothers in Search of Promised Land, City Museum Lodz, Lodz, November 2016, pp. 18. (Accepted for publication).

2. "A Turbaned German of Mosaic Faith: Moritz Daniel Oppenheim’s Visual Self-Orientalization," Ulrike Brunotte et al. eds., Internal Outsiders - Imagined Orientals - invented Occidentals? Antisemitism, Colonialism and Modern Constructions of Jewish Identity (Würzburg: Ergon, 2016), pp. 16. (Accepted for publication).

 

3.  "Artists, Orientalism, and the Jewish Connection: the Works of Moritz Oppenheim," in Ezra Mendelsohn ed., Festschrift for Richie Cohen: Icons and History, Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar, 2015, forthcoming (in Hebrew).

 

4.    "From the Shtetl (1939-1946) to the Flowers of Auschwitz (1945-46) and Back: The Creation, Reception and Destiny of Zinovii Tolkachev's Art." In Heftrich, Urs, Robert Jacobs et.al, eds., The Images of Rupture between the East and the West: Iconography of Auschwitz and Hiroshima in the Arts and Literature  of the Eastern Europe, Cologne: Böhlau, 2015, forthcoming.

 

5. "The Sources of Chagall's Neo-Primitivism," Chagall and the Russian Avant-garde, exhibition catalogue, Le Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, March 2011, pp. 23-29 (in French).

 

5a. "The Sources of Chagall's Neo-Primitivism," Chagall and the Russian Avant-garde, exhibition catalogue, Art Gallery of Ontario, online http://www.ago.net/the-origins-of-neo-primitivism-in-chagalls-work (English translation of no. 2).

 

7.   "Mané-Katz – the Years in Ukraina." In Tarshish, Noa ed., Mané- Katz, Ukraine, Paris, Eretz-Israel, Mané-Katz Museum, Haifa, 2011, pp. 17-35 (Hebrew and English).

 

8.  "The Iconography of the Holy Family in Chagall's 1909-1910 Works." In Poorthius Marcel, Joshua Schwartz and Joseph Turner, eds., Interaction between Judaism and Christianity in History, Religion, Art and Literature, Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, vol. 17, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Holland, 2009, pp. 495-507.

 

9.   "Chagall and Russian Futurism: ‘The One-and-a-Half-Eyed Archer’," Proceedings of the 11^th World Congress of Jewish Studies, 1994, Jerusalem, pp. 47-54.

 

Articles in periodicals

 

10. "The Orient in Jewish Artistic Creativity: The Case of Maurycy Gottlieb’s Self-Portrait in Arab Dress," Place in Modern Jewish Culture and Society, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 30, 2016, pp. 30. (Accepted for publication)

11.With Richard I. Cohen, " Invoking Samuel Hirszenberg's Artistic Legacy—Encountering Exile," Images 8, 2015, pp. 46-65.

12. With Richard I. Cohen, "Samuel Hirszenberg's First Steps as an Artist and His Revealing Sketchbook" Adam Klimczak, ed., exhibition catalogue, Hirszenberg Brothers in Search of Promised Land, City Museum Lodz, Lodz, November 2016, pp. 18. (Accepted for publication).

13. "A Turbaned German of Mosaic Faith: Moritz Daniel Oppenheim’s Visual Self-Orientalization," Ulrike Brunotte et al. eds., Internal Outsiders - Imagined Orientals - invented Occidentals? Antisemitism, Colonialism and Modern Constructions of Jewish Identity (Würzburg: Ergon, 2016), pp. 16. (Accepted for publication).

14.  "Zinovii Tolkatchev's Jesus in Majdanek: A Soviet Jewish Artist Confronting the Holocaust," in Nathanael Riemer, Avidov Lipsker and Michał Szulc (eds.), Jesus in den Juedischen Kulturen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts / Jesus in the Jewish Cultures of the 19th and 20th Century, PaRDeS, Universitaetsverlag Potsdam, 21 (2015): 59-85 (English with German abstract). 

 

15. with Richard I. Cohen, "Wandalin Strzałecki's Song of the Destruction of Jerusalem: A Homage to Maurycy Gottlieb and Poland," Biuletyn Historii Sztuki (Bulletin of the History of Art), Art Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, no. 1-2, July 2014, pp. 83-112.

 

17.  with Richard I. Cohen "The Return of the Wandering Jew(s) in Samuel Hirszenberg's Art," Ars Judaica, The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, 2011, vol. 7, 2011, pp. 33-56.

 

18.  "Between Local and Universal: Daniel Kabiljo, a Sephardic Artist in Sarajevo on the Eve of the Holocaust," El Prezente, no. 4, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, December 2010, pp. 233-254.

 

19. "The Continuity of 'Jewish Iconography': Images Depicting the Migration from Eastern Europe, Pogroms and Deportations as Models of Holocaust Art," Bishvil HaZikaron, no. 3, July 2009, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, pp. 30-39 (in Hebrew).

 

19a.  "The Continuity of 'Jewish Iconography': Images Depicting the Migration from Eastern Europe, Pogroms and Deportations as Models of Holocaust Art," Legacy, Journal of the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, vol. 4, 2011, pp. 14-25 (English translation of  no. 11).

 

20.  "Adolf Weiller – an Attempt to Reconstruct a Jewish Artist's Biography" Zbornik,, Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade,  2009, no. 9, pp. 525-562 (In Serbian with English summary).

 

21.  "Music and Theater in the Works of Marc Chagall between 1908 and 1910," Shagalovskii sbornik,  no. 3, Vitebsk: Muzei Marka Shagala, 2008, pp. 60-67 (in Russian).

 

22.   Biographies of Samuel Hirszenberg, Izidor Kaufmann, Leonid Pasternak and Leopold Pilichowski for The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, 2008, pp. 720-721; 875; 1336; 1358.

 

23.   "Chagall's 'Jew in Bright Red' " Ars Judaica, The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, 2008, vol. 4, pp. 61-80.(AA)

 

24.   "Marc Chagall's 1909 Female Portraits of Women" Nashim, A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues, 2007, no. 14, pp. 131-159.

 

25.   "Chagall's 'Wedding', 1908-1909",  Timorah, The Bar Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, special issue published in honor of the Bar Ilan University's 50^th Anniversary, 2006, pp. 151-162 (in Hebrew).

 

26.   "Chagall’s Fiddler," Ars Judaica, The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, 2005, vol. 1, pp. 117- 132.

 

27.   "The Events of 1905 in Chagall’s Early Works," Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe, Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Winter 2004, 2 (53), pp. 33-5.

 

28.   "A Parokhet as a Picture: Chagall’s 1908-09 Prayer Desk," Studia Rosenthaliana, 2004, vol. 37, pp. 193-222.

 

29.   "Chagall: the Artist and the Poet," Jewish Art, Eastern Europe I, 1996-96, vol. 21/22, pp. 41-67.

 

30.  “Levitan’s ‘Jewish Graveyard,” The Israel Museum Journal, vol. 12, Summer 1994, pp. 29-34.

 

31.    "Jewish Cemeteries in Belgrade," Zbornik, Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade, 1992, no. 6, pp. 201-215 (In Serbian with English summary).

 

32.    "The Awakening of Jewish National Art in Russia," Jewish Art, 1990-91, vol. 16/17, pp. 98-121.

 

33.   "Domed Synagogues on the Territory of Yugoslavia," Zbornik, Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade, 1987 no. 5, pp. 218-226 (In Serbian with English summary).

 

Reviews of Books in periodicals

 

34.   Book review of Where is My Home? The Art and Life of the Russian Jewish Sculptor Mark Antokolsky, 1843-1902  by Musya Glants. Baltimore, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010, Slavic Review, vol. 71, no. 1 (Spring 2012), pp. 202-203.

 

35.    "A New Look at Jewish Art," book review of Edward van Voolen, My Grandparents, My Parents and I: Jewish Art and Culture, Munich, 2006, Ars Judaica, The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, 2007, Vol. 3, pp. 116-118.

 

 

PAPERS PRESENTED AT SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES

2015          with Richard I. Cohen, "The Cultural Reception of Samuel Hirszenberg's Galut  (1904-2014)", international conference Hirszenberg Brothers – in Search of the Promised Land , The Museum of the City of Lodz, Lodz, Poland, October 24-25, 2015.

 

2015          "The Non-Jewish Jewish Artist: Revisiting 'Jewish Identity in Modern Art," Constructing and Deconstructing Jewish Art, international conference, Bar-Ilan University, September 7-9, 2015.

 

2015         "A Turbaned German of Mosaic Faith: Moritz Daniel Oppenheim's Visual Self-Orientalization,"Colonialism, Orienatlism and the Jews – Jewish Self-Orientalization international workshop, Institute of Jewish Studies, University of Antwerpen, Belgium, June 24-26, 2015

 

2015        " Sarajevo's Jewish Intellectuals and the Collegium Artisticum" The Avant-Garde and the Jews, international conference, Institute of Jewish Studies, University of Antwerpen, Belgium, February 2-4, 2015

 

2013          "Moša Pijade's Fluctuating Identities: from Sephardic Jew, to Serbian Artist, to  Yugoslav Communist Leader" 16^th World Congress of Jewish Studies, The  Hebrew University of Jerusalem, July 28-August 1

 

2013          with Richard I. Cohen, "Invoking Samuel Hirszenberg's Artistic Legacy",  International Conference "Memory and Journey. Dimensions of Israeli and Jewish Art,"  Dusseldorf, Germany, July 1-3, 2013

 

2013           "Art in the Camps: Witnessing or preserving one's Identity? Case Study: Daniel Ozmo's art created in Jasenovac" the international research workshop The Holocaust in Yugoslavia: History, Memory and Culture – a Reappraisal, at The International Institute for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, June 24-28, 2013

 

2012          with Richard I. Cohen, "Wandalin Strzałecki's Song on the Destruction of Jerusalem (Pieśń o zburzeniu Jerozolimy): A Homage to Gottlieb and Poland," Traditions and Perspectives in History of Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University, Israel,

September 10–12, 2012

 

2012          "Chagall's Multiple Identities: Jewish, Russian, Artist's," guest lecturer at the symposium Chagall and Israel, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, May 9, 2012

 

2011            "From the Shtetl (1939-1946) to the Flowers of Auschwitz (1945-46) and Back:

The Creation, Reception and Destiny of Zinovii Tolkachev's Art," The Images of Rupture between the East and the West: the Iconography of Auschwitz and Hiroshima in the Arts and Literature of the Eastern Europe, International Symposium held and Slavic Institute and the Seminar for Eastern European History of the Heidelberg University, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, May 26-29, 2011.

 

2009           "Between Local and Universal: Sephardic Artists in Sarajevo on the Eve of the Holocaust," 15^th World Congress of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

 

2009          "Johanna Lutzer: a Viennese artist, Jewish refugee, Tito's partisan and an immigrant to Palestine,"  Beyond Camps and Forced Labor, Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution, The International Multidisciplinary Conference at the Imperial War Museum, London, January 7-9, 2009. 

 

2008           "The Memory of Jewish Life and Tradition as Preserved in Holocaust Art: the Drawings of Adolf Weiller, a Jewish Artist from Croatia," The Jewish Presence In Art, Bar-Ilan University, June 16-18, 2008.

 

2007          "Chagall's 1909-1910 Pictures of Couples," 17^th International Chagall Conference, The Marc Chagall Center, Vitebsk, Belorussia, Oct. 12-15, 2007.

 

2007          Eastern European Pogrom and Expulsion Scenes as a Model for Depicting  Holocaust Events: the Art of Adolf  Weiller, a Jewish Painter from Croatia," The Jews, the Arts, and the Scholarship: Production and Reception, British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS) Conference, London, July 11-13, 2007.

 

2007         "The Iconography of the Holy Family in Chagall's 1909-1910 Works" Jewish and  Christian  Perspectivs: Isolation, Independence, Syncretism and Dialogue -Models of Interaction between Judaism and Christianity in Past and Present, International Symposium, Catholic Theological University of Utrecht, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan and the Schechter  Institute for Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, January  21-24, 2007.

 

2006        "The Art of a Sephardic Artist Created during the Holocaust: Daniel Ozmo's  Dalmatian Motifs Painted in Jasenovac," 6^th International Conference Social and Cultural History of  the Jews on the Eastern Adriatic Coast: The Jews and the Sea, with the co-operation of The Moshe David Gaon Center for  Ladino Culture, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

 

2006       "Chagall in Love," The European Association for Jewish Studies, 8^th Congress, Moscow,  July 23-27, 2006.

 

2005       "Be Fruitful and Multiply: Love, Sex, Marriage and Childbirth in Chagall's  Early Works," 14^th World Congress of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

 

2005      "The Influence of Mikhail Vrubel upon Early Works of Marc Chagall," International Conference on Russian Jewish Cultural Exchange in the 20^th Century, Bar-Ilan University.

 

2004      "Music and Theater in the Works of Marc Chagall between 1908 and  1910," 14^th  International Chagall Conference, The Marc Chagall Center, Vitebsk, Beloruss. 

 

2002     "Life as Theater: the Influence of Stage Design on Chagall's 1908-1910 Works," European Association for Jewish Studies, 7^th Congress,  Amsterdam.

 

2001       "Chagall's Fiddler," 13^th World Congress of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University    of Jerusalem.

 

1999       "The Chapter 'Lech-Lecha' and its Interpretation in the Works of the Modern  East-European Jewish Artists," The Sixth International Seminar on Jewish Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

             

1997         "Jewish artists in Russia: The Search for National Identity, the Struggle for   Equality," The Emancipation and Jewish Artists; A Comparative European Perspective Seminar, International Symposium, The Royal Academy of Arts and  Sciences, the Committee for History and Culture of the Jews in Holland, Amsterdam.

1997         "Chagall's 'Dead Man'," 12^th World Congress of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew  University of Jerusalem.

 

1989    "Leon Bakst's Jewish Dancer," 10^th World Congress of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

 

1988   "Antokolsky, Stasov, Ginzburg - Awakening of Jewish National Art in Russia" The Second International Seminar on Jewish Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.