Prof. Noga-Banai is interested in Pilgrimage Art, in the connections between Jewish and Christian Art and between Jerusalem and Rome. She studies both portable and monumental art around the Mediterranean basin. She has published studies on art and architecture in the Holy Land, in Italy and in Western Europe, including Merovingian and Carolingian art. Her books, The Trophies of the Martyrs: An Art Historical Study of Early Christian Silver Reliquaries, and Scared Stimulus: Jerusalem in the Visual Christianization of Rome, were published in 2008 and 2018 respectively by Oxford University Press. Recently she has also been dealing with modern commemoration in Germany from a medievalist perspective. Her book, A Medievalist's Gaze. Christian Visual Rhetoric in Modern German Memorials (1950–2000), was published recently by Peter Lang (2022).

Reception hours: Monday, 12:30, by appointment. Mandel Building, room 125 
02-580359

She focuses on the visual representation of religious and political images in the Bronze and Iron Ages (ca. 1000-500 BCE), and on the use of religious symbols versus anthropomorphic images of gods especially in the Bronze and Iron Ages. She has published a catalogue, a book and many articles on these subjects in international periodicals. Prof. Ornan teaches in the Department of Art History and in the Department of Archeology.

Reception hours: Tuesday, 12:00-13:00, by appointment via e-mail. 

 
"Pictorial representation in ancient Near Eastern Art in the pre-classical periods (circa 3500-500 BCE)" and "Introduction to Classical Art: Deciphering Visual Expression in Ancient Cultures"

 

Prof. Posèq was originally an artist, who turned to Art History while teaching a Materials and Techniques course at the Hebrew University. He has written many books, some dealing with the Baroque (Bernini Revisited: New Insights into his Work, Caravaggio and the Antique), others with formal and semiotic problems in art (Perspective [in Hebrew], Format in Painting, Left and Right in Painting and the Related Arts), as well as books and articles on Chaim Soutine, Jacques Lipchitz and Ygael Tumarkin.

Prof. Revel-Neher served both as Head of the Department of Art History and of the Interdisciplinary Program of the Faculty of Humanities. She held the Nicolas Landau Chair for Art History. Her research dealt especially with Biblical iconography in the Middle Ages, the Jewish-Christian controversy as expressed in Medieval Art, and the image of the Jew in the Medieval period. These studies were published in 3 books and many articles. She was a visiting scholar at many different institutions around the world, from Bar-Ilan University, to the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, the École Practique des Hautes Études in Paris, and in institutions in Bologna, Mexico, etc.

For an appointment, contact: daniel.revel@gmail.com

Prof. Sabar lectures in the Departments of Jewish and Comparative Folklore and Art History. His areas of research include Jewish Art and Folk Art, material culture and ephemera, objects associated with the cycles of life and of the year, ritual and custom in the Jewish communities in Europe and in Islamic Iands, with especial emphasis on the culture of Italian Jews and the Sephardic diaspora in Europe, the cultural and artistic inter-relationships between the Jewish communities and their Christian and Muslim neighbors, and the image of the Jew and Hebrew writing in art. He has published over 200 books and articles in these fields. At the same time, he collects Jewish art objects and Israeli ephemera and lectures and guides tours to Jewish sites in Europe, North Africa, India and Central Asia.

Reception hour: By previous appointment.

"European Society 1300-1500 in the Mirror of Visual Arts" and  "Art Between the Church and the Scientific Revolution 1500-1700".

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Prof. Shalev-Eyni is especially interested in illuminated manuscripts, in the interaction between images and texts, between Jews and Christians, between East and West and between Art and History. She if the author of Jews among Christians: Hebrew Book Illumination from Lake Constance, Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History 41 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), and co-author of The Monk's Haggadah:  A Fifteenth Century Illustrated Passover Haggadah from the Monastery of Tegernsee (Codex Hebrew 200 from the Collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek), (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2015).

Her articles have appeared in leading periodicals.

Reception hour: Wednesday 12:15 by previous appointment.

 

Prof. Rina Talgam, the Alice and Edward Winant Family Professor of Art History, received her Ph.D from The Hebrew University in 1996 and joined the faculty the following year. Her research interests include the art of the Middle East from the Hellenistic period to the Umayyad period, specialization in mosaic pavements, and the mutual influences between polytheism, Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity and Islam, the emergence and sources of Umayyad art, and ancient synagogues. Her books include: The Mosaics of the House of Dionysos at Sepphoris, written with Zeev Weiss (2004), The Stylistic Origins of Umayyad Sculpture and Architectural Decoration (2004) and Mosaics of Faith: Floors of Pagan, Christians, and Muslims in the Holy Land (2014). Rina Talgam received several awards from the Hebrew University: in 2013, the Milken Prize for years of excellence in teaching, in 2015 the prestigious Polonsky Prize for creativity and originality in the humanistic disciplines, in 2016 she was awarded the Narkiss Prize for the research of Jewish art and in 2018 the Rector Prize for excellence in research, teaching and contribution to the community. Prof. Talgam was a research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting Professor at Yale University and the Gregoriana University in Rome.

 

 

cultural history and socio-medical aspects of family, maternity, breastfeeding, pain, death and sleep.