The Visual Dimension: Aspects of Jewish Art. Published in Memory of Isaiah Shachar (1935-1977).
Boulder: Westview Press, publshed in cooperation with The Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, 1993. Hardbound. Royal octavo, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, xvi, 184 pp., b/w and color illustrations, Isaiah Shachar: Curriculum Vitae, index of manuscripts, general index, a few ink-stamps. Very Good. Item #95255
ISBN: 0813312590
Articles are "Yeshayahu Shachar: An Appreciation," Chimen Abramsky, "'The Battle to Save the Jewish Art Which Has survived the Ravages of Persecution,' Artcle from The Times (London), August 20, 1977," Isaiah Shachar,"Is There a Jewish Art?" Joseph Gutmann, "A Contribution to the Discussion 'Is There a Jewish Art,'" Vidosava Nedomacki, "The Continuation of Ancent Jewish Art in the Middle Ages," Ursula Schubert, "The Iconography of the Hebrew Psalter from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century," Therese Metzger, "The Architecture of the Syagogue in Neoclassicism and Historicism," Helen Rosenau, "Foolishness, Fakes, and Forgeries in Jewish Art: An Introduction to the Discussion on Judaica Conservaton and Collecting Today," AlfredMoldovan, "The Case for a Central Archives of Jewish Art: An Intoduction to the Discussion on the Possibility of Establishing a Central Photographic Archives of Jewish Ceremonial Art," Bernhard Blumenkranz, "Appendiies to the Chapter by Bernhard Blumenkranz, "Introduction to the Catalog of the Bodleian Library Exhibition," Therese Metzger & Mendel Metzger, "Catalog of Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts Exhibited in the Bodleian Library, August - September 1977," Therese Metzger & Mendel Metzger.
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