This talk presents a new interpretation of the figures, and-perhaps-a solution to the enigmas of this extraordinary manuscript. This feature has surprised and delighted viewers and puzzled scholars for over a hundred years. But although provided with the bodies of human beings, these figures are in most cases represented not with human heads but with the countenances of sharp-beaked and sharp-eyed birds. The manuscript there are a variety of figures-young and old, male and female-enacting the narratives of the Exodus and engaged in the religious observance of Passover eve. Giza, the monoliths of Easter Island, or Mona Lisa's smile. Throughout Jewish art, it is, in its own unassuming way, as mysterious as the Pyramids of In Greek mythology, these were creatures with women’s heads and sharp claws. The classic qualities of a perpetual enigma. Moyen Age medieval woodcuts - Google Search Medieval Artwork Mythological Creatures Woodcut Tattoo Woodcuts Prints Illustration Greek Mythology The Harpy, 1497. So-called Birds' Head Haggadah, probably illuminated in Mainz around 1300 possesses all PUBLIC APPEARANCES: AUDIO, PHOTOS & VIDEO.Featured Article in The Jewish Review of Books: Spring 2012.1993-' If Lions Could Carve Stones.': Medieval Jewry and the Allegorization of the Animal Kingdom.1997-Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature.

1997- The Jerusalem Haggadah: Gateway to the Haggadah.2011-The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative & Religious Imagination.2014-Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Manuscript Illumination.2005-Keynote Lecture: Jewish Educators' Alliance.2008-Congregation Bnai Abraham, Easton Pennsylvania.

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