Essays, Chapters,& Criticism

“Harnessing the Dragon.” In Laurie L. Patton and Wendy Doniger, eds., Myth and Method (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996). Read →

“Another Flight into Egypt.” In Eva Frojmovic, ed., Imagining the Self, Imagining the Other: Visual Representation and Jewish-Christian Dynamics in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (Leiden: Brill, 2002), Cultures, Beliefs & Traditions series. Read →

Chapter in Lawrence Fine, ed., Judaism in Practice: From the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), Princeton Readings in Religions. Read →

“Seeing Saul.” In the volume on Saul in the Hebrew Bible and its reception (2015). Read →

“Thought Crimes: Implied Ensuing Action in Medieval Manuscripts Made for Jewish Patrons and Audiences.” For Walter Cahn. In Manuscripta Illuminata: Approaches to Understanding Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Festschrift for Walter Cahn (Princeton: Index of Christian Art / Medieval Institute Publications, 2014). Read →

“Jews, Judaism, and the Visual Arts.” In Jonathan Karp and Adam Sutcliffe, eds., The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume VII: The Early Modern World, c. 1500 – c. 1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). Read →

“Re-Presentations of the Jewish Image: Three New Contributions.” Review essay on Miri Rubin, Gentile Tales (Yale, 1999); Sara Lipton, Images of Intolerance: The Representation of Jews and Judaism in the Bible moralisée (California, 1999); and Ruth Mellinkoff, Antisemitic Hate Signs in Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts (Center for Jewish Art, 1999). AJS Review 26:2 (2002). Read →

Review of Dalia-Ruth Halperin, Illuminating in Micrography: The Catalan Micrography Maḥzor MS Heb 8° 6527 in the National Library of Israel (Brill, 2013). Studies in Iconography 36 (2015). Read →

“On Frogs and Birds’ Heads.” Jewish Review of Books 3:1 (Spring 2012). On the New American Haggadah and medieval Haggadah illustration. Read →

“Jewish Visuality: Myths of Aniconism and Realities of Creativity.” Conversations (The Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals, 2014). Read →

A Mysterious Erasure in a 700-Year-Old Manuscript of the Hebrew Bible. Mosaic, April 11, 2022.

Solving the Mystery of the Brick and the Book. Mosaic, October 12, 2021.

The Once and Future Temple (Two parts). Mosaic, July 30–31, 2020.

God, Moses, and the Mystery of the Missing Kiss. Mosaic, October 18, 2019.

Making a Space for God. Mosaic, June 4, 2019.

Loyal As a Dog: How to Read “Jewish Art.” The Lehrhaus, April 29, 2019.

On View for the First Time in 100 Years: An Exquisite Medieval Haggadah. Mosaic, April 23, 2019.

What’s a Virgin Mary-like Figure Doing in a Famous Medieval Haggadah? Mosaic, August 9, 2018.

Standing at Sinai in Medieval Germany. Jewish Review of Books, May 17, 2018.