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Items with the tag:

illumination

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Illu­mi­na­tion: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Mark Podwal

Ada Brun­stein
January 25, 2021
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Visu­al Arts
Jew­ish Trea­sures from Oxford Libraries
Edited by Rebecca Abrams and Cesar Merchan-Hamann
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Jew­ish Text
The Illus­trat­ed Pirkei Avot
Jes­si­ca Tamar Deutsch
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The Broth­er Hag­gadah: A Medieval Sephar­di Mas­ter­piece in Facsimile
Marc Michael Epstein, ed.
Cover of The Illuminated Torah: Paintings and Essays on the Weekly Portions
Visu­al Arts
The Illu­mi­nat­ed Torah: Paint­ings and Essays on the Week­ly Portions
Avner Moriah and Shulamit Laderman
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Skies of Parch­ment, Seas of Ink: Jew­ish Illu­mi­nat­ed Manuscripts
Marc Michael Epstein, ed.
Cover of The Monk's Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee
Jew­ish Text
The Monk’s Hag­gadah: A Fif­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Illu­mi­nat­ed Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee
David Stern, Christoph Markschies, Sarit Shavlen-Eyni, eds.
Cover of The Medieval Illuminated Haggadah: Family Edition
Jew­ish Text
The Medieval Illu­mi­nat­ed Hag­gadah: Fam­i­ly Edition
David Holzer
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Jew­ish Text
The Song of Songs: The Hon­ey­bee in the Garden
Debra Band
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The Illu­mi­nat­ed Kad­dish: Inter­pre­ta­tions of the Mourn­er’s Prayer
Hyla Shifra Bolsta
Cover of Richard Codor's Joyous Haggadah: The Illuminated Passover Story
Non­fic­tion
Richard Codor­’s Joy­ous Hag­gadah: The Illu­mi­nat­ed Passover Story
Richard and Liora Codor
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Free­dom Illu­mi­nat­ed: Under­stand­ing The Szyk Haggadah
Byron L. Sherwin and Irvin Ungar, eds.

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