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Faculty | Art History Department

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Ziva  Amishai-Maisels

Prof. Ziva Amishai-Maisels

A researcher of Modern Art and Modern Jewish Art. Israel Prize winner for Art History in 2004.>>>

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Prof. Amishai-Maisels was born in New York. In 1959 she and her family made Aliya, and she studied simultaneously at the Bezalel Art Academy and the Hebrew University. In 1960 she returned to the United States to complete her B.A. and M.A. at Columbia University. In 1962 she returned to Israel and began teaching at the Hebrew University. In 1970 she received her doctorate, Summa cum laude, at the Hebrew University, writing on Gauguin's Religious Themes. She has published many books and articles on Modern and Modern Jewish Art, and in 1993 published her important book, Depiction and Interpretation: The Influence of the Holocaust on the Visual Arts. She continues to work on these subjects after she retired. While working at the University, she was twice Head of the Department of Art History and served as Head of the Institute of Arts, Languages and Literatures and as head of the Institute of Arts and Letters.

For an appointment, contact: maisels@huji.ac.il.

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Alexander Chaikovsky

Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Medieval Art

Alexander is a third year B.A student in the Department of Art History and the History Department. He is especially interested in Late Antiquity and Medieval Art. Alexander is a teaching assistant in two introductory courses.

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"Art in the Mediterranean Basin, 4th-7th Centuries" and "Medieval Art between East and West, 7th-13th Centuries"

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Aliza  Cohen-Mushlin

Prof. Aliza Cohen-Mushlin

Prof. Cohen-Mushlin is an expert on Latin and Hebrew illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages, and researches Jewish architecture from Antiquity to Modern times.>>>

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She received her doctorate from the Warburg Institute in London and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. From 1981 until she retired in 2006 she taught in the Department of Art History, and published 3 books on Latin illuminated manuscripts and many articles. She collaborated with other scholars on producing facsimile editions of Jewish illuminated manuscripts, and during 12 years edited the annual Jewish Art. From 1991 to 2006 she was the head of the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University, and founded its section for Architecture, leading many delegations of researchers to document the Jewish Art which was falling into ruins throughout the world and led several important research projects. In 1994, Prof. Cohen-Mushlin founded the Bet Tfila Research Unit for Jewish Architecture in Europe at the Technical University of Braunschweig "House of Prayer" and she remains its Director. In 2009 she was given a medal of honor by the President of Germany.

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Tawfiq  Da’adli

Dr. Tawfiq Da’adli

Humanities Building, room 5335

An art historian and archeologist who specializes in Islamic material culture. >>>

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As an archeologist in Jerusalem Dr. Da'adli has studied the Mamila cemetery, the Al Qaymuriyya Mausoleum in Jerusalem, the quarters around the Cotton Merchants Market and the Beit HaBad Market. As an art historian he has written his doctorate on the school of painting that developed in the city of Herat in today's Afghanistan, in the time of Sultan Husayn, last of the Timurid rulers.

Recently he has been researching the wall paintings of the Ummayad Palace in Jericho, trying to reconstruct a series of paintings there that have never been properly published since the excavations done under the British Mandate. Another recent research project concerns Lod, where local excavations have been taking place for years. As part of that research, he is trying to understand the city's civic structure near the end of the Ottoman Period.

Dr. Da'adli was a Buber scholar from 2012 to 2015. In 2016, he received a fellowship from the Council of Higher Education to encourage young researchers who have been accepted to teach in Israel's universities.

Reception hour: By appointment only.

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Luba  Freedman

Prof. Luba Freedman

A researcher into Italian Art of the 15th and 16th centuries in Florence, Rome, Venice, Parma and Correggio.>>>

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At the end of her high school studies in Moscow and even before her Aliya to Israel in 1972, Prof. Freedman understood that she wanted to specialize in the History of Italian Renaissance Art emphasizing its Classical heritage. Her M.A. and doctorate were completed at the Hebrew University under the supervision of the department's founder and Israel Prize winner, Prof. Moshe Barasch.

Prof. Freedman has written 5 books and around 50 articles on masterpieces of the visual arts, including 3 studies on works of Italian poets: Petrarch, Boccaccio and Tasso. She has also collaborated on editing a book of articles that deal with mythology. In all of her publications she stresses her constant interest in Classical and Christian subjects and in Aesthetics.

 

Reception hour: Tuesday and Wednesday around the hours of the ​taught courses (#7708); by appointment via email​;​no messages from Thursday to Sunday.

 

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Noam  Gal

Dr. Noam Gal

A researcher of visual culture from the discovery of photography to today.>>>

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He began his work in the Bezalel Academy in the Department for Visual Communication, and went on to study Cultural Studies at the Hebrew University and to do his doctorate at Yale University. Since 2013 Gal has been Curator of Photography at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. In the Department of Art History he teaches the History and Theory of Photography, Contemporary Art as seen through Art Criticism, and questions concerning Museum Research. In his articles and lectures Gal stresses the role of the spectator in the field of art, the connections between education and photography, and the social and political influences on photography in the present day.

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Milly  Heyd

Prof. Milly Heyd

milly.heyd@mail.huji.ac.il

An expert in Modern, Contemporary and Israeli Art.>>>

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She studies art with an emphasis on Psychology and is interested in questions of identity in Jewish art, among Jewish artists who hide their identity, and among Dadaists (Man Ray, Tristan Tzara, Hans Richter).

For an appointment, contact: milly.heyd@mail.huji.ac.il

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Nitsan Israel

Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Art
M.A. student, specializing in body and peformace art in political and social movements. Thesis supervisor: Prof. Gal Ventura. Nitsan is a teaching assistant in two introductory courses.
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"Modern Art and Visual Culture: From the French Revolution to 1900" and "Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Art: From Modernism to Modernity"
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Lola  Kantor-Kazovsky

Dr. Lola Kantor-Kazovsky

A researcher into the art and theory of art and architecture in the Renaissance and the early Modern period.>>>

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Dr. Kantor-Kazovsky wrote her doctorate at the Hebrew University, under the supervision of Prof. Moshe Barasch, on the artist and architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Antiquarian culture in Rome in the 18th century. Recently she has also been researching and writing on the cultural Cold War and the development of Modernism in Russia in the second half of the 20th century.

Reception hour: Tuesday 17:15-18:15 by previous appointment.

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Bianca  Kühnel

Prof. Bianca Kühnel

A scholar of Medieval Art.>>>

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Prof. Kuehnel has published books and articles on art and architecture connected to the traditions of the holy sites in Israel and Europe, as well as medieval scientific visual images. She has been invited as a guest in leading research institutions around the world (CESM Poitiers; Free University Berlin; Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome; Max Planck Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz; Ruprecht-Karl University Heidelberg; Israel Institute for Advanced Studies) and has won prestigious prizes and research grants (GIF; Thyssen; Max-Planck; ERC). Prof. Kuenel has served as head of the Department of Art History and founded the European Forum at the Hebrew University, which she directed for many years. She has taught generations of students, some of whom lecture and do research in leading universities in Israel (Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Beersheva) or serve as curators at the Israel Museum.

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