AISG Soci
Eva Frojmovic
Director, Centre for Jewish Studies; Lecturer, School of Fine Art,
History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds.
e-mail: e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk
web-site: http://www.fine-art.leeds.ac.uk/people/type/academic/
TEMI DI
RICERCA
Manoscritti
ebraici miniati.
PUBBLICAZIONI
Books
1997
Hebraica and Judaica from the Cecil Roth Collection (with
F. Felsenstein), Leeds: Brotherton
Library, 1997.
2002
Imagining the Self, Imagining the Other:
Visual Representation and Jewish-Christian Dynamics in the Middle Ages and
Early Modern Period, ed. E. Frojmovic,
Leiden: Brill, 2002.
In progress
Masks and Monsters in the Margins: Cultural
Negotiation in Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts in 13th Century-Germany: expressions of interest from Brill andUniversity
of Minnesota Press, pending completion of manuscript (summer 05).
Curatorial work
1997
Curator (jointly with F. Felsenstein) of the exhibition Hebraica and Judaica from the Cecil Roth
Collection, University of Leeds: Brotherton Library,
1997.
Contributor to the exhibition Mappot... blessed be who comes: The Band of
Jewish Tradition since late Antiquity, Munich: Praehistorische
Staatssammlung, 16.5.-14.9.1997; Wuerzburg,
Mammelsteiner Kabinett,
30.9.1997-30.11.1997; Frankfurt, Jewish Museum, 11.12.-1997-1.3.1998; Osnabrück, St. Marien,
17.5.1998-21.6.1998.
Peer-reviewed
articles
1989
“Eine gemalte Eremitage für die Stadt: die
Wüstenväter im Camposanto zu Pisa”, in: Malerei und Stadtkultur in der
Dantezeit (H. Belting, D. Blume eds.) München: Hirmer, 1989,
pp. 201-214.
1996
“From Naples to Istanbul: the woodcuts in
the earliest illustrated printed Haggadah”, The
Library, 18, 1996, pp. 87-109.
“Giotto's Allegories of Justice and the
Commune in the Palazzo della Ragione
in Padua: a Reconstruction”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld
Institutes, LIX, 1996, pp. 24-47.
1997
“The Perfect Scribe and an Early
Illustrated Esther Scroll”, British Library Journal, 23/1, 1997, pp.
68-80.
2000
“Jewish Ways of
Reading the Illuminated Bible”, in Jewish Ways of Reading the Bible, ed.
G. Brooke, Oxford: OUP 2000, pp. 230-53.
2002
“Buber in Basle, Schlosser in Sarajevo, Wischnitzer in Weimar: The Politics of Writing about
Medieval Jewish Art”, in Imagining the Self, Imagining the Other:
Visual Representation and Jewish-Christian Dynamics in the Middle Ages and
Early Modern Period, Leiden: Brill, 2002.
“Messianic politics
in re-Christianized Spain: Images of the Sanctuary in Hebrew Bible
manuscripts”, in Imagining the Self, Imagining the Other:
Visual Representation and Jewish-Christian Dynamics in the Middle Ages and
Early Modern Period, Leiden: Brill, 2002.
2003
“Travelling to the Circumcision: Early
Modern Representations”, in: Circumcision: New Perspectives on an Ancient
Rite, edited by R. Wasserfall and E. Mark,
Hanover/London: Brandeis University Press/ University Press of New England,
2003, pp. 128-41.
2005
“Gendered Representations of the
Circumcision between Family and Community”, in: Framing the Family:
Representation and Narrative in the Medieval and Early Modern Period, ed.
R. Voaden and D. Wolfthal,
Temple, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, 2005 (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies vol.
280), pp. 221-43.
Forthcoming
“The Origin of Illustrated
Circumcision Books and the Role of Jewish Women in the Early Modern Period”,
in: Proceedings of the Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies,
Jerusalem 1997 (in print)
“Material and Visual Culture in Ashkenaz 1300-1800”; “National Style and its discontents:
understanding stylistic syncretism in medieval Hebrew manuscript illumination”;
“Hiddenness and Revelation: Permitted depictions, forbidden depictions and
creative solutions”, in Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Illuminated
Manuscripts, ed. M. M. Epstein. Hugh Lauter Levin
Associates. Forthcoming ca. 2006.
“Images of Judaic Textuality in two 13th Century Latin Psalters
from South Germany”, in Beyond the Yellow Badge: New
Approaches to Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism in Medieval and Early Modern
Visual Culture,Ed.
Mitchell B. Merback. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming
2006-7.
In progress
“Francesco da Barberino,
Giotto, and the Field of Vision” (under review).
“Framing the Resisting Viewer in a medieval
Jewish image of the Circumcision ritual”,
in Travelling Concepts, ed. M. Bal (awaiting contract).
Other articles
1990
“Current synagogue restorations in
Germany”, in: Newsletter of the International Survey of Jewish Monuments,
XIII/1 1990, pp. 5-7.
1997
“Illustrated Mohelbooks
and Circumcision Liturgies”, in: A. Weber, ed., Mappot...
blessed be who comes: The Band of Jewish Tradition since late Antiquity, Osnabrück: Secolo Verlag, 1997, pp. 55-61 and catalogue collaboration.
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