A Crown for a King: Studies in Jewish Art, History, and Archaeology in Memory of Stephen S. Kayser

by Kayser, Stephen S.; Sabar, Shalom; Fine, Steven; Kramer, William M.

• ISBN13: 9789652292117
• ISBN10: 9652292117
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Gefen Books
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Author Biography

Shalom Sabar is chairman of the department of Jewish and Comparative Folklore at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He also chairs Israel's Jewish Society of Art Steven S. Fine is associate professor of Rabbinic Literature and History at Baltimore Hebrew University William M. Kramer is professor emeritus of Religious Studies, California State University at Northridge

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Directing The Jewish Museum since Kayser	p. xi
Recollections of the Stephen and Louise Kayser Era at The Jewish Museum	p. xv
Dr. Stephen S. Kayser: A Personal Testimony	p. 1
Stephen S. Kayser in Los Angeles: A Personal Memoir	p. 23
Silver Ritual Objects of the Jewish Communities of the Ottoman Empire	p. 31
The Synagogue of Conegliano Veneto	p. 47
Joel ben Simeon Revisited: Reflections of the Scribe's Artistic Repertoire in a Cinquecentro Haggadah	p. 59
Between Phoenicia Maritima and the Land of Israel: The Population of a Frontier Zone in the Byzantine Period	p. 73
An Eighteenth-Century Hanukkah Lamp Rediscovered	p. 97
The Halakhic Motif in Jewish Iconography: The Matzah-Baking Cycles of the Yahuda and Second Nurnberg Haggadahs	p. 105
Myth and Scripture: The Dialoghi d'Amore of Leone Ebreo	p. 125
Joseph ben Kalonymus: The Enigma of a Thirteenth-Century Hebrew Scribe	p. 147
Chagall and J.M. Synge	p. 153
Hugo Ballin, Artist and Director	p. 161
"I Am an American and a Good Jew, Too," Reuben M. Eschwege: A German Jewish Folk Artist in America	p. 181
"Defining Jewish Art"-- The Case of Two Eighteenth-Century Bookcovers	p. 193
The Illustrated Prayer Book of Reizele Binge of Furth, 1737/38	p. 205
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