Judaic Studies

101 catalog results (updated October 2024). Illustrations, books and materials by or about Jewish-American, Polish born artist Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) housed at the Special Collections Research Center as well as in other collections at the U-M Library.

68 catalog results (updated February 2024). Includes works by Jerusalem School movement artists Ephraim Moses Lilien, Zeev Raban, Jacob Steinhardt, Menachem Shemi, Abel Pann, and others. Housed mainly in the Jewish Heritage Collection (JHC). Image: Abel Pann, A young ashkenazic girl, in Twelve original lithographic pictures of types and scenes of Jerusalem, call number NC 1165 .P3 T84 1925

Includes images and supporting descriptions of approximately 600 objects from the Jewish Heritage Collection (JHC). Descriptions are searchable by keyword or with an advanced search of category, material (Art & Architecture Thesaurus vocabulary), item number, holiday or ritual (Library of Congress Subject Headings), geographic origin, location in collection, and donor/source. Users can browse all media, all records, or by topic.

116 items available (last update: September 2023). The majority of these items are in the Jewish Heritage Collection (JHC). Image: Saul Raskin, Pirke Aboth in Etchings, call number BM 506 .A2 R372 1940.

245 titles (updated September 2023). Image from Where the wild things are / story and pictures by Maurice Sendak.

Showcases the Jewish contribution to the visual arts and architecture from antiquity to the present from a variety of perspectives, including history, iconography, semiotics, psychology, sociology, and folklore.

Presents articles on Jewish art and visual culture, ranging in time from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day.

Published by the Center for Jewish Art of the Hebrew University between 1986-1989.
(Index available online at: http://cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php?mode=ja)

Published in Chicago by the Spertus College of Judaica Press between 1974 and 1985.

"Theory and Criticism is a journal for the critical study of Israeli society and culture" (from the first page of the first volume, published in Summer 1991).

Provides over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities and sciences. It includes an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.

A collection of digitized images and information about Jewish artifacts from all over the world. The online collection includes more than 500,000 images of objects and artifacts from 700 museums, synagogues and private collections in 41 different countries, as well as architectural drawings of 1,500 synagogues and Jewish ritual buildings from antiquity to the modern day.

A comprehensive, scholarly art reference work offering global coverage of all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography, from prehistory to the present. Includes 30,000 articles from nearly 7,000 contributors.