Dr. Zvi Orgad

Zvi Orgad, “The Horb Synagogue: Re-Tracing Roots," Ars Judaica 18 (2022): 157–166.

Zvi Orgad, Eliezer-Zusman of Brody: The Early Modern Synagogue Painter and his World, Boston: Brill (forthcoming, 2022).

Zvi Orgad, “The Deceptive Photographic Documentation of the ‘Polish Synagogues’ in Franconia," Jews and Slavs 27 (forthcoming, 2022): 419–435

Zvi Orgad and Efrat Fridenzon-Harison, “Photo/Book/Exhibition: Reflection on the Curatorial Process,” in Catalina Fara (ed.), ISRAELS: Portraits of Israel in Tourist Guidebooks and Photo Albums of Israel, a Peer Reviewed Catalog (Leuven: Catholic University of Leuven, Unité de recherche littérature & culture - Groupe MDRN, 2021), 55–70

Zvi Orgad, “Prey of Pray: Allegorizing the Liturgical Practice," Arts 9(1), no. 3 (2020), 2–17. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts9010003

Zvi Orgad, “Synagogue Paintings as Indicating a Developing Conception of National Redemption," Images: The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication 25 No. 34 (2019): 15–27. http://DOI 10.14746/i.2019.34.01

Zvi Orgad, “Transferring Visual Culture: The Case of Eliezer-Zusman," in Nitza Davidovitch and Eyal Lewin (eds.), Warsaw and Jerusalem: Polish-Jewish History, Culture, Values, and Education between Paradise and Inferno (Irvine: Brown Walker Press, 2019), 47–58

Zvi Orgad, "The Status of a Wife’s Name in a Painter’s Synagogue Signature," Judaica Ukrainica: peer-reviewed annual journal on Jewish studies 5 (forthcoming)

Zvi Orgad, “Synagogue on Display: The Unterlimpurg Prayer Room,” in Katrin Keßler, Ulrich Knufinke, Alexander von Kienlin, and Annette Weber (eds.), Synagogue and Museum 10 (Petersberg: Bet Tfila – Research Unit for Jewish Architecture in Europe, 2018), 109–112

Zvi Orgad and David Cassuto, "The Unterlimpurg Synagogue: Issues Involved in Restoring a Demolished Synagogue," in Nitza Davidovitch and Dan Soen (eds.), Shoa and Experience: A Journey in Time (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2015) 136–167

Zvi Orgad and David Kasuto, "The Synagogue of Unterlimfurg: Issues in the Reconstruction of the Sheharev Synagogue", in Nitsa Davidovitz and Dan Soan (eds.), El Gai Zalmov: The Holocaust Experience in a Multidisciplinary View (Tel Aviv: Resling, (2015, 294-265). Translation of the article "The Unterlimpurg Synagogue: Issues Involved in Restoring a Demolished Synagogue"

Conferences                                                                                                  

2024    International Conference: Jews in Krakow: History and Culture, Krakow, “The Deluge Paintings in Synagogues of Krakow “ (24.9.2024)

2024    International Conference: Closure: Expanding Boundaries: Jewish Artistic Heritage of Ukraine, Chernivtsi, “The Painted Torah Arks of Bavaria: The Gate of Heaven or the Gateway to Ruthenia?” (Zoom, 3.7.2024)

2024    Invited Erasmus+ Lecture: “Closure: Eastern European Paintings in Israeli Synagogues,” Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (17.4.2024)

2024    Art following the 7th of October: A joint seminar for the Department of Jewish Art and Art Therapy Program, and the Department of Literature of the Jewish People, Bar-Ilan University. Session Chair (6.3.2024)

2023    International Conference: Cultural Contexts of War, Visions of Destructions and Redemption: References to War in Synagogue Art, Institute of European Culture
of the Adam Mickiewicz University, Gniezno (19-20.10. 2023 – canceled due to the 2023 October war)

2023    12th EAJS congress Branching out: Diversity of Jewish Studies, Frankfurt Main, "Lead to Gold, Sorrow to Hope: Alchemy in Synagogue Paintings" (19.7.2023)

2023    Seventh Junior Scholars Conference in Jewish History at the GHI Washington Diaspora and Debris: Material Culture in German-Jewish History, Washington DC, "Concise Shrines: Torah Arks of Franconia" (26.4.2023)

2023    Invited Lectures on Synagogue Art from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period, University of Graz (15–23.3.2023)

2023    Organizer: 16th Annual IMAGO International Conference Encounters: Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Art, Bar-Ilan University; Speaker: "Domestic Sanctity: The Torah Arks of Rural Franconia" (2.3.2023)

2022    Imago graduate student workshop, The Open University of Israel: Session Chair (8.11.2022)

2022    International Conference: The Holocaust and Genocide in the 21st Century, a Grievous Yet Never Ending Story, Ariel University: "The Last Spark: Abraham Hitman’s Synagogue Paintings" (November 16^th)

2022    The Eighteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: session organizer: Medieval Jewish Art: Survivals and Revivals; session organizer: "Colors of Decline: The effect of Technology on the Status of Illuminated Manuscripts" (forthcoming, August 8^th-12^th, submitted for review)

2022    The International Medieval Congress 2022, University of Leeds: session organizer: A Matter of Life and Death: Medieval Jewish Material Culture and Drawing the Borderline; Speaker: " Don't Mind the Gap: Text, Art, and Borders in Jewish Funerary Art" (forthcoming, July 7^th)

2021    organizer: Inter-university conference Amanut veḥinuch: toldot vetoladot [Art and Education: History and Consequences], Jerusalem; Speaker: "Aleph-beth shel ḥinuch: ẓiyurim beluḥot limud kria meosef William Gross [Alphabet of Education: Paintings in Plates used for reading instruction from William Gross’s Collection]" (July 7^th)

2021    BAJS Annual Conference: World in Crisis: Reflections and Responses from Antiquity to the Present, South Hampton, "The Artistic Jew in the Display of the Unterlimpurg Prayer Room,” (July 7^th)

2021    International conference Disciplining Emotions: Texts and Images in Medieval and Early Modern Times, Bar-Ilan University: "Angry Birds / Apologetic Owls: Emotional Expression of Zoomorphic Motifs in Jewish Art" (July 5^st)

2021    56th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo: "German Beast in an Italian Feast: Image transference in Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts" (May 11^th)

2020    Tov Mar’e Einayim: Te’ud Hazuti veHeker Yahadut Gerania [better is the sight of the eyes: Visual Documentation and Research of German Jewry], Bar-Ilan University: "Ha’arye Shaag Paamaim: Tehiyat haẒityur Hafigurativi beVatei Kneset beGermania [The Lion Roared Twice: The Revival of Figurative Painting in German Synagogues]" (December 2^nd)

2020    organizer: Inter-university conference Haisha Ba’amanut Hayehudit Ha’amamit: Yoẓeret Umusa Yeẓira [Women in Jewish Folk Art: Creators and Object of Creation], Jerusalem; Speaker: "Ḥatima Be’alma: Ẓayar Beit Haknesset Veishto [Signature/Signorina: The Synagogue Painter and His Wife]" (July 14^th)

2019    Organizer: International Erasmus+ Workshop: Jewish Life and Art in Franconia, In cooperation with Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Jüdisches Museum Franken, Fürth. Location: Jüdisches Museum Franken, Fürth, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg (July 21st–29^th)

2019    The International Medieval Congress 2019, University of Leeds: session chairperson: Jewish Craftspeople and Their Material Evidence, II: Writing, Illuminating, and Binding Books; Speaker: "From Material to Sound: The Craft of Story Telling in the Medieval Haggadah" (July 3^rd)

2019    organizer: Erasmus+ Colloquium on: Mass Culture and Folk Rationality, Prof. Marek Kaźmierczak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (June 13^th)

2019    organizer: Inter-university conference Keiẓad Kotvin? Haot Haivrit Ba'amanut [How to Write? The Hebrew Letter in Art], Bar-Ilan University; Speaker: "Kach Velo Kach: Haot Haivrit Bevatey Knesset Bereshit Haet Hahadasha [This Way and not That way: The Hebrew Letter in Synagogues in the Early Modern Period]" (May 15^th)

2019    IMAGO conference Body and Matter in Medieval and Early Modern Arts, The Open University of Israel: "The Twinkling Twins: Urinating Gemini in a Hebrew Illuminated Manuscript" (April 10^th)

2018    XI^th Congress of European Association for Jewish Studies, Cracow: session organizer: From Micro to Macro in synagogue architecture; "From Symmetry to Equilibrium: Effects of Synagogue Interior Architecture on Mural Paintings" (July 18^th)

2018    organizer: Inter-university conference Besod Hayetzira: Torat Rabbi Nahman Mibreslav Veamanut Yehudit [In the Secret of Creation: Rabbi Nahman of Breslau's Law and Jewish Art], Jerusalem (April 24^th)

2018    25^th Annual International Conference on Jewish Studies, Moscow: "Messiah's Elephant: Sacred Buildings Returning to Jerusalem in Synagogue Paintings" (May 2^nd)

2018    international conference Israel - From a Dream to a Dream Come True, Gniezno: "Heaven to Earth: Replacement of the Zodiac by the Twelve Tribes in Synagogue Decorations as a Sign of National Redemption" (January 23^rd)

2017    Lecture in the Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum, Schwäbisch Hall: "Eliezer-Zusman’s Workshop" (October 16^th)

2017    17^th World Congress of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: "Eliezer-Zusman’s Synagogue Paintings: Lost Sources Rediscovered" (August 9^th)

2017    organizer: Inter-university conference Omanut Yehudit Kemismach History [Jewish Art as a Historical Document], Jerusalem (April 19^th)

2017    IMAGO conference The Art of Ritual and Ritual of Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: "Call and Response: Inscription Designs Indicating Liturgical Song in Eighteenth Century Synagogue Paintings and Rites" (March 3^rd, Hebrew)

2016    international conference Modern Jewish existence in a world of threats and hostility, Ariel University: "Subjective Memory: On the Display of the Unterlimpurg Synagogue in the Hälisch Fränkischen Museum in Schwäbisch Hall" (November 29^th)

2016    Synagogue and Museum: 3rd International Congress on Jewish Architecture at Technische Universität Braunschweig: "Religious vs. Artistic in Musealized Synagogues: The Case of the Unterlimpurg Prayer Room" (November 23^rd)

2016    International Workshop Synagogue Wall Paintings: Research, Preservation, Presentation, The Center for Jewish Art, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem: "Seeing the Elephant: Repetition and Invention in Eighteenth-century synagogue painting" (September 14^th)

2016    Young Researchrs Conference at Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Jewish Studies: "'Ezer-Kenegdo [His Helpmate]': On the Marital Status of Synagogue Painters in the 18^th Century" (May 30^th, Hebrew)

2015    Coordinator and lecturer: International Workshop Constructing and Deconstructing Jewish Art, Bar-Ilan University; "Judge a Bird by its Feathers: Did Eliezer-Zusman Paint the Unterlimpurg Synagogue?" (September 8^th)

2015    Inter-university colloquium for young researchers, Bar-Ilan University: "The Mystery of the Wild Cock in Eliezer-Zusman's Paintings" (May 26^th,Hebrew)

2015    Lecture in a Mini Course: Gate to the Lord: Symbolic Language of East-European Synagogue Art, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kiev:

"Eliezer-Zusman: a synagogue painter in the Eighteenth century" (May 21^st)