Presentation by Dr. Vladimir Levin of the Center of Jewish Art (pdf file) at the EVA/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of Culture, Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Van Leer Institute, 12-13 November 2013 http://www.digital-heritage.org.il Presentations available at: http://2013.minervaisrael.org.il

1. Center for Jewish Art
at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Vladimir Levin

2. Documentation Activities of the Center for Jewish Art
Recognition of wall paintings in
the synagogue in Saluzzo,
Italy
Documentation of synagogues
in Brandenburg, Germany
Uncovering of a mosaic menorah
in the 5th-century synagogue in
Saranda, Albania
Documentation of the Ibn-Ezra
Synagogue in Cairo, Egypt
Uncovering of a dedicatory inscription
in an old synagogue in Bukhara,
Uzbekistan
Documentation of Hebrew
Manuscripts in Bavarian State
Library, Munich, Germany

3. Countries in Europe and Asia where the Center for Jewish Art
sent documentation expeditions

4. Rafael Abramov House in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 1903 (Photo 2002)

5. Rafael Abramov House in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 1903 (Photos 2002 & 2005).

6. The Great Synagogue in Ostroh, Volhynia, Ukraine, 1632 (photo 1994).

7. The Great Synagogue in Ostroh, Volhynia, Ukraine, 1632 (photo 2010).

8. The Great Synagogue in Ostroh, Volhynia, Ukraine (photo 2010)

9. The Great Synagogue in Ostroh, Volhynia, Ukraine (drawings 1994)

10. Wooden Habad Synagogue in Subate, Latvia, 1880 (photo 2007)

11. Synagogue and biet midrash in Plunge, Lithuania (photo 2004)

12. Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, Sergey Kravtsov, Vladimir Levin,
Giedrė Mickūnaitė and Jurgita Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė (eds.),
Synagogues in Lithuania: A Catalogue (Vilnius, 2010–2012)

13. Cemetery Chapel in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany, 1890

14. Publications of Bet Tfila Research Unit for Jewish Architecture in Europe

15. The Tempel in Chernivtsi (Czernowitz), Ukraine

16. TaZ (Goldene Rose) Synagogue in Lviv, Ukraine, 1582

17. TaZ (Goldene Rose) Synagogue
in Lviv, Ukraine, 1582

18. TaZ (Goldene Rose) Synagogue
in Lviv, Ukraine, 1582

19. TaZ (Goldene Rose) Synagogue
in Lviv, Ukraine, 1582

20. Mikveh in Schwedt am Oder
1876

21. Mikveh in Schwedt am Oder
1876

22. Jewish Ritual Architecture
TaZ Synagogue, Lviv, Ukraine 1582
Lviv,
The Zvulunov home synagogue, Samarkand,
early 20th c.
Synagogue in Subate, Latvia, 1880
Subate,
Cemetery Chapel in
Leipzig, 1928
Mikveh in Schwedt, Germany, 1876
Great Synagogue in Ostroh,
Ostroh,
Ukraine, 1627
Peitavas Synagogue in Riga,
Latvia, 1905

23. Sacred and Ritual Objects
Torah ark, Great Synagogue in Akhaltsikhe, Georgia (1910)

24. Sacred and Ritual Objects
Torah crown, Poland, 1847
Dedicated to the Beit Midrash in Iași,
Iaș
Romania
Torah case, Iraq, 1932
Torah coronet, Libya, beginning of the
20th century

25. Sacred and Ritual Objects
Hannukah lamp, Russia, late 19th c.
Kiddush cup, Poland, 1885-1888
1885-

26. Great Synagogue in Lutsk, Ukraine, 1642
Torah ark curtain, Lutsk, Ukraine, 1751
Found in the Russian Ethnography
Museum in St. Petersburg

27. Cohanim De'getiyah Synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia (18th–19th c.)

28. Ancient Jewish Art
Oil lamp, Israel, 6th c.
(Franciscan Museum, Jerusalem)
Temple façade, mosaics, Susya Synagogue, 6th c.
faç

29. Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts
Ketubbah, Carpi,
Ketubbah,
1629
Esther scroll, Italy, 18th century
The Duke of Sussex Catalan Bible, 14th century
Rothschild Miscellany, North Italy,
15th century
Second Leningrad Bible, Fustat,
Fustat,
1010
Tegernse Haggadah,
Haggadah,
Ashkenaz, 15th century
Ashkenaz,

30. Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts
Prayer book, Morocco, 19th c. (BSB,Cod. hebr. 453)

31. The Messiah entering Jerusalem,
Tegernsee Passover Haggadah,
Passau region? Late 15th c. (BSB, Cod. hebr. 200, fol. 24v)

32. Modern Jewish Art
Menashe Kadishmann, Sacrifice, Tel Aviv, 1982
Kadishmann,
Marc Chagall, The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1960 – 1965

33. Sacrifice of Isaac in the Index of Jewish Art
Dura Europos
Synagogue, western
wall, Syria 244- 245.
Beit Alpha Synagogue,
Palestina Secunda, 6th c.
Day of Atonement buckle,
Austro Hungary, Galicia,
Lvov, 1818
Tombstone,
Amsterdam, 1746
Redemption plate,
Austro Hungary, Vienna,
1824?
Wroclaw Mahzor,
South-West Germany,
ca. 1290
Regensburg Pentateuch,
Germany, Bavaria,
Regensburg?, ca. 1300
Mizrah plaque, Moses son of
Isaac (Shah Mizrahi),
Jerusalem, 1886
Fireplace in Rabbi’s house Beit Tefilah Benyamin,
Cortemaggiore, 19th c.
Czernowitz, 1920’s
Parokhet , Silesia,
1792
Simhat Torah’s Flag,
Poland, end of the 19th c.
Marc Chagall, The Sacrifice Menashe Kadishmann, Sacrifice,
of Isaac, 1960–65
Tel Aviv, 1982

34. The
Bezalel
Narkiss
Index of
Jewish Art
Ancient Jewish
Art
Hebrew
Illuminated
Manuscripts
Sacred
& Ritual
Objects
Jewish
Ritual
Architecture
Modern Jewish
Art
The archives of the Center of Jewish Art include:
around 1,400 sets of plans of ritual buildings,
documentation of 750 Hebrew illuminated manuscripts
and 50,000 ritual objects in c. 500 synagogues and collections

36. Zhytomyr Torah Crown (1875) in the Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art

37. Zhytomyr Torah Crown (1875) in the Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art

38. Beit Tefilah Benyamin Synagogue in Chernivtsi (1923)

39. Subject “Bull, Zodiak Sign” in the Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art

40. Sacrifice of Isaac in the Index of Jewish Art
Dura Europos
Synagogue, western
wall, Syria 244- 245.
Beit Alpha Synagogue,
Palestina Secunda, 6th c.
Day of Atonement buckle,
Austro Hungary, Galicia,
Lvov, 1818
Tombstone,
Amsterdam, 1746
Redemption plate,
Austro Hungary, Vienna,
1824?
Wroclaw Mahzor,
South-West Germany,
ca. 1290
Regensburg Pentateuch,
Germany, Bavaria,
Regensburg?, ca. 1300
Mizrah plaque, Moses son of
Isaac (Shah Mizrahi),
Jerusalem, 1886
Fireplace in Rabbi’s house Beit Tefilah Benyamin,
Cortemaggiore, 19th c.
Czernowitz, 1920’s
Parokhet , Silesia,
1792
Simhat Torah’s Flag,
Poland, end of the 19th c.
Marc Chagall, The Sacrifice Menashe Kadishmann, Sacrifice,
of Isaac, 1960–65
Tel Aviv, 1982