Table Of ContentIMAGINING THE SELF, IMAGINING THE OTHER
CULTURES, BELIEFS
AND TRADITIONS
MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN PEOPLES
Editorial Board:
WILLIAM BRINNER, University of California at Berkeley
FLORIKE EGMOND, Leiden University
GUSTAV HENNINGSEN, Danish Folklore Archives
MAYKE DEJONG, University of Utrecht
MIRI RUBIN, Pembroke College, Oxford University
ELI YASSIF, Tel Aviv University
VOLUME 15
IMAGINING THE SELF,
IMAGINING THE OTHER
Visual Representation' and Jewish-Christian Dynamics
in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
EDITED BY
EVA FROJMOVIC
BRILL
LEIDEN' BOSTON' KOLN
2002
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Imagining the Self, Imagining the Other: Visual Representation and Jewish
Christian Dynamics in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period / edited by
Eva Frojmovic.
p. cm. - (Cultures, beliefs, and traditions; v. 15)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9004125655
1. Jewish art and symbolism. 2. Art, Medieval. 3. Jews in art. 4. Christian art
and symbolism,-Medieval period, 500-1500. 5.Jews-Identity. 6.Judaism
Relations-Christianity. I. Frojmovic, Eva, 1962-II. Series.
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Imagining the Self, Imagining the Other: Visual Representation and
Jewish-Christian Dynamics in the Middle Ages and Early Modern
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(Cultures, beliefs and traditions; Vol. 15)
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CONTENTS
List of Contributors .................................................................... VII
List of Illustrations IX
Editor's Foreword
XVII
Buber in Basle, Schlosser in Sarajevo, Wischnitzer in Weimar:
The Politics of Writing about Medieval Jewish Art .............. ..
Eva Frqjmovic
Another Flight into Egypt: Confluence, Coincidence, the
Cross-cultural Dialectics of Messianism and Iconographic
Appropriation in Medieval Jewish and Christian Culture 33
Marc Michael Epstein
Bread of Affliction, Emblem of Power: The Passover
Matzah in Haggadah Manuscripts from Christian Spain 53
Michael Batterman
Messianic Politics in re-Christianized Spain: Images of the
Sanctuary in Hebrew Bible Manuscripts .................................. 91
Eva Frqjmovic
The Temple is my Body: Gender, Carnality, and Synagoga
in the Bible Moralisee .................................................................. 129
Sara Lipton
The Hanged Judas of Freiburg Cathedral: Sources and
Interpretations .... .................................. ...... ........................ ........ 165
Annette Weber
Imaging the Self: Representations of Jewish Ritual in Yiddish
Books of Customs .................................................................... 189
Diane Wolfthal
VI CONTENTS
Medieval Themes in the Wall-Paintings of 17th and
18th-Century Polish Wooden Synagogues ................................ 213
Thomas C. Hubka
Index ............................................................................................ 237
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
MICHAEL BATTERMAN, Ph.D. (2000) in Art History, Northwestern
University, is Assistant Professor at the School of Art and Design,
Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His research focuses on the
social and political context for art production among the Jewish,
Mudejar, and Christian communities of medieval Christian Spain.
MARc MICHAEL EpSTEIN is Associate Professor of Religion and Jewish
Studies at Vassar College. He is the author of Dreams if Subversion
in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature (University Park, PA: 1997) and
Overthrowing the Idols: A Radical Reappraisal if Jewish Visual Culture
(Berkeley: forthcoming). He has been Director of the Hebrew Books
and Manuscripts division of Sotheby'sJudaica department. He curated
the inaugural exhibition of the Herbert C. and Eileen Bernard
Museum at Temple Emanu-El in New York City.
EVA FROJMOVIC is lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art
and Cultural Studies, associate director of the AHRB Research Centre
for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History, and director of the Centre
for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds. She is the co-author (with
Frank Felsenstein) of Hebraica and Judaica from the Cecil Roth Collection
(Leeds: 1997). She has also published on such subjects as early mod
ern Hebrew book illustration, and representations of circumcision.
THOMAS C. HUBKA is Professor of Architecture at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has published articles on Polish synagogues
in Polin and Myth in Judaism (Hebrew); his forthcoming book, Resplendent
Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth Century Polish Community,
is being published by Brandeis University Press.
SARA LIPTON, trained in Medieval Studies at Yale University, is
Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York
in Stony Brook. She is the author of Images if Intolerance: The Representation
if Jews and Judaism in the Bible moralisee (Berkeley: 1999). She is at
present working on a study ofJ ews in scholastic sermons, and another
on art, preaching, and piety in the high Middle Ages.
Vln LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
ANNETTE WEBER is curator ofJ udaica at the Jewish Museum, Frankfurt
am Main, and lecturer at the universities of Frankfurt am Main
and Marburg. She is the editor of Mappot-Blessed be who come~ The
Band if Jewish Tradition (Osnabrilck: 1997) and ''Auj3erdem waren sie
ja auch Menschen ... " Goethes Begegnung mit Juden und Judentum (Berlin:
2000). She has also written about late medieval and early modern
German ruralJewries, and on anti-Jewish representations in medieval
Christian art.
DIANE WOLFIHAL is Associate Professor of Art History at Arizona State
University. Her publications include The Beginnings if Early Netherlandish
Canvas Painting, 1400-1530 (Cambridge: 1989) and Images if Rape: The
"Heroic" Tradition and its Alternatives (Cambridge: 1999), and she is the
editor of Peace and Negotiation, Strategies]or Coexistence in the Middle Ages
and Renaissance (Turnhout: 2000). She has also published on medieval
and Renaissance images of the Wandering Jew, and on symbolic
violence in Italian Jewish culture, and is currently completing a book
on illustrated Yiddish books in 16th-century Italy.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Illustrations to "Buber in Basle, Schlosser in Sarajevo, Wischnitzer in Weimar:
The Politics qf Writing about Medieval Jewish Art" by Eva Frqjmovic (pp.
1-32):
1. The mark of Semitic artistic stagnation: papercut Mizrach bought
by Schlosser in Galicia. Paper and paint, late 19th century. After
Muller/Schlosser, Haggadah von Sarqjevo, 1898, p. 250 fig. 10.
2. Pan:Jewish modernist Medievalism: Rimon/ Milgroim vol. 1, 1923,
p.2.
Illustrations to ''Another Flight into Egypt: Corifluence, Coincidence, the Cross
cultural Dialectics qf Messianism and Iconographic Appropriation in Medieval
Jewish and Christian Culture" by Marc Michael Epstein (pp. 33-52):
1. Moses and Family Return from Egypt. Golden Haggadah,
Barcelona, c. 1320. British Library Add 27210, fo1. lOv
2. Passover Preparations. Golden Haggadah, Barcelona, c. 1320.
British Library Add 27210, fo1. 15r
3. Israelites leaving Egypt armed. Rylands Haggadah, Catalonia,
c. 1350. John Rylands Library Heb. 6, fo1. 18v
4. "The Egyptians oppressed us ..." Sarajevo Haggadah, Aragon,
c. 1320 Sarajevo, National Library Heb. ms 1, part 2, fo1. 13v
5. Israelites in bondage. Barcelona Haggadah, Barcelona, c. 1350,
British Library 14761, fo1. 30v
Illustrations to "Bread qf Aifliction, Emblem qf Power: The Passover Matzah
in Haggadah Manuscripts flom Christian Spain" by Michael Batterman (pp.
53-89):
1. Matzah from MS Add. 27210, fo1. 44v (By Permission of the
British Library)
2. Vision of God enthroned from MS n.a.l. 2290, fo1. 53v (Courtesy
of the Bibliotheque nationale de France)
x LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
3. Communal distribution of the matzah from Sarajevo, National
Museum, Haggada, p. 33 (detail)
4. Communion to the laity from central Italian Breviary, Ms
Rossiani 178, fo1. 121 (detail) (By Permission of the Biblioteca Apos
tolica Vaticana)
5. Elevation of the Host from Estatuos de la Cqfradia del Santisimo
Sacramento (single leaf, c. 1317) (By Permission of the Colegiata de
Tudela)
6. Miraculous Bleeding Host of Dijon from a Book of Hours, use
of Rome (Poitiers, c. 1475), MS M. 1001, fo1. 17v (By Permission of
the Pierpont Morgan Library)
7. Matzah from MS Mic. 9478, fo1. 29 (Courtesy of the Library
of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
8. Matzah from MS Add. 14761, fo1. 61 (By Permission of the
British Library)
9. Matzah from MS A 422 of Kaufmann Collection, Oriental
Library, fo1. 39 (By Permission of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Budapest)
10. Illustration of Solomon's Temple from Peter Comestor's Historia
Scholastica in MS Res. 199, fols. 6v-7 (Courtesy of the Biblioteca
Nacional, Madrid)
11. Wrought iron wafer matrix, Barcelona, 14th or 15th century
(Courtesy of the Museu d'Historia de la Ciutat de Barcelona)
12. Privilegio rodado of Alfonso XI (1314), MS n.a.1. 2475, fo1. 3
(Courtesy of the Bibliotheque nationale de France)
Illustration to ''Messianic Politics in re-Christianized Spain: Images if the
Sanctuary in Hebrew Bible Manuscripts" try Eva Frqjmovic (pp. 91-128):
1. Sanctuary vessels: Bible, Paris Bibliotheque N ationale hebr. 7,
fols. 12v-13 (Perpignan 1299). Credit: Bibliotheque nationale de
France.
Illustrations to "The Temple is my Body: Gender, Carnality, and Synagoga in
the Bible Moralisee" try Sara Lipton (pp. 129-63):
1. The burial of the Old Law. (Commentary to Deut. 34:5). Vienna,
ONB cod. 1179, fo1. 62c. Photo: ONB.
