Just over a year ago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased one of the most important Jewish manuscripts to survive medieval Spain. This 14th-century Spanish Bible from the Castile region is ...

The Rylands Haggadah, created in Catalonia Spain sometime around 1330, is a towering masterpiece of Jewish Art. ... Medieval Jewish Art in Context. By. Richard McBee - 22 Av 5772 – August 9 ...

The Colmar Treasure was deliberately hidden so it wouldn't be destroyed by those who wished to exterminate a medieval Jewish community. A Jewish ceremonial wedding ring from the late 13th or early ...

This year, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is getting into the Passover spirit with “The Rylands Haggadah: Medieval Jewish Art in Context,” a new exhibit showing a “priceless ...

Bird’s Head Haggadah RevealedThe Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative & Religious ImaginationBy Marc Michael Epstein, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2011 ...

Its contents are offered mainly as evidence of Jewish contributions to Spanish art and, more broadly, for what they tell us about Jewish life in general in late medieval Spain.

Band uses a medieval Spanish palace, the Alhambra, as a sustained model for her illuminations, all the way down to tile patterns. Though its historical context departs vastly from the authors’ assumed ...

It subsequently travels to the Princeton University Art Museum, where it will be shown from February 16 to June 9. ... Although medieval Jewish law isn’t even a minor focus of the exhibit, ...

Rosenberg and two other Jewish art dealers owned the Guelph Treasure, 82 pieces of Medieval religious art that date back to the 11th century. In 1935, 42 of the pieces were sold to agents of ...

Jewish art dealers under pressure from Nazis sold medieval relics to Germany in 1935: Can their heirs sue to recover now? Supreme Court weighs Jewish suit over Nazi forced art sale - Los Angeles Times ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday against the heirs of Jewish art dealers who suffered a huge loss after selling an important collection of medieval artifacts to Nazi leaders in ...