List of Illustrations Introduction Vladimir Levin, Sharon Liberman Mintz and Rina Talgam Part 1 Word and Image in Jewish Book Culture1 "Cent fois sur le métier tu remettras ton ouvrage": Deciphering Pictorial Allusions in a Jewish Medieval Manuscript Elisheva Revel-Neher 2 A Key Element: Micrography and Material Culture in the Pentateuch Manuscripts of Elijah b. Berekhiah Sarit Shalev-Eini 3 Dressing the Role Models of Aragonese Jewish Society in the Sarajevo Haggadah Katrin Kogman-Appel 4 Art of the Colophon: Colophons of Sephardi Incunabula as the Last Hebrew ' Aru in the Pyrenees Shimon M. Iakerson 5 The Gutwirth-Zucker Prague Haggadah Evelyn M. Cohen 6 The Illustrated Esther Scroll of Yeiel Menaem Urbino, 1776 Falk Wiesemann 7 "Peregrinando Quaerimus" [We Seek by Traveling]: Salom Italia's Portrait of Menasseh ben Israel (1642) Shelley Perlove Part 2 Beauty in Holiness: Ornamenting the Sacred8 When Steel and Brass Meet Silver: a Torah Shield from Ichenhausen Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig 9 Torah Shields as Votive Donations in Eastern Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Vladimir Levin Part 3 Visual Dimensions of Kabbala and Mysticism10 Domed Synagogues in Ruthenia, Podolia, and Volhynia: Space, Decoration, Meaning Sergey R. Kravtsov 11 Mystical and Esoteric Motifs in Evronot Manuscripts Batsheva Goldman-Ida 12 Publishing Protection: the Printed Amulets of Israel Bak, the First Hebrew Printer in Jerusalem William Gross 13 Jewish Amulets Portraying Moses Ira Rezak 14 The Menorah Plaque in Iraq and R. Yosef Hayyim Esther Juhasz Part 4 Jews Through Christian Eyes15 Moses and the Invisible God at Sinai Larry Silver 16 Rembrandt's Enigmatic Purim Painting in the Hermitage Gary Schwartz Part 5 Soundscapes of Jewish Ritual 17 Scores Are Not Only Music: Melodies in Passover Haggadot Edwin Seroussi 18 Wake Up and Stay Silent: Visualizing Jewish Aural Practices Ilia M. Rodov Part 6 Visual Responses to Modernity19 The Visual World of an Orthodox Schoolteacher in Germany: Israel Wiesen (1835-1900) Richard I. Cohen 20 The Orientalization of the Eastern European Jewish "Artist of the Ghetto": the Case of Lazar Krestin (1868-1938) Mirjam Rajner Part 7 Transfers of Visual Culture between Israel and America21 What's in a Hue? Patinated Metalware and the Postwar American Jewish Home Jenna Weissman Joselit 22 We Hate the Holidays: Garbage Pail Kids and avurat HaZevel as a Vehicle for Cultural Exchange Ido Noy Part 8 Past Research through Contemporary Eyes23 "A Mysterious Object That Cannot be Identified": Incense Shovels in Late Antique Palestinian Synagogues Steven Fine 24 The Medieval Judensau and Its Modern Interpreters Katherine Aron-Beller 25 Mordechai Narkiss: an Innovative Approach to the Material Culture of the Jews from Islamic Countries in Israel Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper Part 9 Professor Shalom Sabar and His Oeuvre26 Shalom Sabar: a Personal Memoir Benjamin Zucker 27 "My Professor": Shalom Sabar: Teacher--Scholar--Mentsch Orly Tzion 28 Interview with Shalom Sabar on 1 August 2023 on Jewish Historical Seminars (JHS) Katherine Aron-Beller 29 Bibliography of the Writings of Shalom Sabar.