This section for Jewish Studies Students Only.
This course 2nd 8 weeks.

This course will survey Jewish painting, sculpture, architecture and
other visual art from ancient times through the present day.  It
will focus on such issues as the development of ritual objects and
manuscripts, the architecture of the synagogue, Jewish artists at
the time of the Emancipation, early Zionist art, the School of Paris
and Marc Chagall, and responses to the Holocaust.  We will conclude
with an in-depth look at the work of contemporary Israeli artists.
Since the study of Jewish art is inseparable from the historical
construction of Jewish identity, we will be looking at these works
within the context of contemporary social, political and religious
developments.
	Final course grades will be based on examinations, short
assignments and a term project.  Readings will be contained in a
course pack of selected important texts and articles.  There are no
prerequisites for this course, but a general knowledge of Western
art history would be useful.