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Born in 1959 in Haifa, Israel
1973-71. Private College Reali Ivri in Haifa.
1982-84. Fine Art Academy in Ramat ha-Sharon, Tel Aviv.
1983-87. Tel Aviv University. History of Art B.A.
1987-88. Tel Aviv University. History of Art, M.A.
1988-90. Munich University. History of Art and Byzantine Studies (Master's Level).
1991-94. Edinburgh University. History of Islamic Art. Ph.D. 1995: "Islamic portable objects in the medieval church treasuries of the Latin West.
1994. International Language Institute in Cairo.
1995-1998. Teaching tutorial courses on medieval Islamic and Jewish art, University of Edinburgh, Fine Arts Faculty.
1997-1998. Teaching medieval Islamic and Jewish art and architecture, Munich University, Institut für Kunstgeschichte.
2000-01. Teaching Islamic art, Bamberg University, Institut für Turkologie und Iranistik.
2001-02. Teaching medieval Jewish art and Archaeology, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg.
2001-02. Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter, Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin. Project: Corpus of the medieval oliphants (DFG project).
2002 - present. Professor for History of Islamic Art. Munich University, Institut für Kunstgeschichte.
Institution
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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Publications
ISLAM CHRISTIANIZED - Islamic portable objects in the medieval church treasuries of the Latin West, Peter Lang Verlag. Frankfurt a.M, 1996 (based on my Ph.D thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1995). The second revised edition 1998.
"Die Achat-Platte vom ursprünglichen Einband," in G. Suckale-Redlefsen and B. Schemmel (eds.), Die Bamberger Apokalypse. Kommentar zur Faksimile-Ausgabe der Handschrift Msc. Bibl.140 der Staatsbibliothek Bamberg (Luzern, 2000), pp. 169-173; also published in: Das Buch mit 7 Siegeln: Die Bamberger Apokalypse , exhibition catalogue, Staatsbibliothek Bamberg (Luzern, 2000), pp. 169-173.
"The 'Banner of the Prophet' in the Cathedral of Augsburg," Interactions in Art, Proceedings of the International "Interactions in Art" Symposium, Hacettepe University, Ankara (Ankara, 2000), pp. 216-221.
"Two Ivory Caskets in the Treasuries of the Cathedrals of Chur and Bayeux," Arte Medievale, 15, 1-2 (2000), pp. 15-25.
"The Oval Agate Plate of the Book Cover of the Bamberg Apocalypse," in W. Ball and (eds.), Cairo to Kabul, Festschrift in Honour R. Pinder-Wilson (London, 2001), pp. 201-206.
“The Portraiture of Objects: A Note on representations of Islamic Objects in European Paintings of the14th-16th centuries,” in: M. Bernardini, C. Borrelli, A. Cerbo and E. Sánchez García (eds.), Europa e Islam tra secoli XIV-XVI (Naples, 2002), pp. 497-521.
“Debora Phillips’ Mosaïc,” in: Mosaïc, a book based on a film and installation of Deborah Phillips (Berlin, 2002).
“The Midrash Rabba: Evidence for the material culture of the Jews in Palestine in pre- and early Islamic periods,” Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft 124,2(2002), pp. 253-267.
“The King Rides Out: A Silk Fragment in Augsburg,” Hali 124(2002), pp. 94-95.
“A Note on a Unique Islamic Golden Figurine,” Iran 40(2002), pp. 173-180.
“Why is the Lion always in a State of Fever? The Legend of the Sick Lion in Noah’s Ark as depicted in the mosaics of San Marco in Venice and the cathedral in Monreale,” Cahiers Archéologiques 49(2001), pp. 39-46.
and Hubertus Kohle, “Erwerb der Bibliothek Brisch für das Institut für Kunstgeschichte,” Gesellschaft von Freunden und Förderen der Universität München 81(2002), pp. 28-29.
„Ephraim Moses Lilien: The Working Process of an Artist,“ in: Ein Leben für die jüdische Kunst, Gedenkband for Hannelore Künzl, ed. By Michael Graetz (Heidelberg, 2003), pp. 141-150.
“Die komplexe Identität Jüdischer Kunst,” in: Eli Bar-Chen and Anthony D. Kauders (eds.), Jüdische Geschichte. Alte Herausforderungen, neue Ansätze (Munich, 2003), pp. 103-110.
Keywords
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- culture mediation
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- Islamic Art