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x List of Illustrations
Fig. 22. Ark of the Covenant reconstruction (from Moshe Levine, The Tabernacle,
trans. Esther J. Ehrman. London and New York: Soncino,
1989,84)
Fig. 23. Synagogue Ark, c. 1666. Scuola Grande Tedesca, Venice (from Bernard
Dov Cooperman and Roberta Curiel, The Venetian Ghetto. Photographs
by Graziano Arici. New York: Rizzoli, 1990,49)
Fig. 24. Birds surmounting the Torah Ark. Mosaic. Synagogue at Beit Alpha,
c. 517-18 C.E. (detail) (photo courtesy of the Israel Antiqui ties
Authority)
Fig. 25. Lions and birds flanking the Torah ark . Gold glass, third or four th century.
Jerusalem, The Israel Museum (photo copyright the Israel Mu ­
seum, Jerusalem)
Fig. 26. Synagogue Ark, David Friedlaender, 1810. Wyszogrod, Poland. (detail,
from G. K. Lukomskii, Jewish Art in European Synagogues from the
Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century. London and New York,
Hutchinson, 1947, 109)
Fig. 27. Elephant, from an illumination accompanying the liturgical poem
Adon Imnani, illustrated within the framework of the revelation on
Mount Sinai. Mahzor, Worms 1272 . Jerusalem, JNUL MS Heb. 4° 781/
I, fol. 151r, detail (photo courtesy of the Jewish National and University
Libra ry,Jerusalem)
Fig. 28. Dragon, from an illumination accompanying the liturgical poem Adon
Imnani, illustrated within the framework of the revelation on Mo unt
Sinai . Mahzor, Worms 1272. Jerusalem, JNUL MS Heb. 4° 781 /1,
fol. 151r, detail (photo courtesy of the Jewish Na tiona l and University
Library, Jerusalem)
Fig. 29. The primor dial serpent with a female head. Hebrew Miscellany, Troyes
(?) c. 1280. London, British Library MS Add. 11639, fol. 520v (photo:
British Library)
Fig. 30. The copper serpent as a winged dragon. London, British Library MS
Add. 11639, fol. 742v (photo: British Library)
Fig. 31. Leviathan battling Behemoth . Mahzor. Upper Rhine, first quarter of
the fourteenth century. Leipzig, Universitatsbibliothek, MS V. 1102/11,
fol. 181v (photo: Edition Leipzig)
Fig. 32. The eschatological Banquet. Bible, Germany, Ulm (?) 1236-38. Milan,
Biblioth ecaAmbrosiana MS B.32 INF (vol. 3), fol. 136r (photo courtesy
of the Prefect of the Ambrosian Library)
Fig. 33. Woodblock print of Leviathan encircling Shor-HaBar. From R. Lilientwlowa,
Sweita Z ydowskie w Presziosei I Terazniejszosci. Crakow,
1908.
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Fig. 34. Leviathan encircling the Tomb of the Patria rchs at Hebron.HannahRivkah
Herman, Embroidered Hallah cover, Jerusalem, 1876. Jerusalem,
The Israel Museum (photo courtesy of The Israel Mu seum, Jerusalem)
Fig. 35. The liturgical poem Adon Im nani, illustrated within the framework of
the revelation on Mount Sinai. Mahzor, Ashkena z, c. 1250-60. Oxford,
Bodleian Library MS Laud Or. 321 , fol. 127 (photo by permission
of The Bodleian Library, Oxford)
Fig. 36. Kol Nidrei with dragons. Mahzor, Germany, second half of the fourteenth
century. Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Preussischer Kulturbesitz,
Orientabteilung MS or. 388, fol. 69r
Fig. 37. Intertwining dragons. Mahzor, Germany, fifteenth century. Berlin,
Staatsbibliothek, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Orientabteilung MS or.
388, fo1. 263r
Fig. 38. Melekh incipit with hidden dragons. Mahzor, northeast France, late
thirteenth century. Private collection, fo1. 116r (photo courtesy
Sotheby's)
Fig. 39. Mo ses' "Flight into Egypt." Golden Haggadah, Castile, 1320. London,
British Library M S Add. 27210, fo1. 10v, upper left (photo: British
Library)
Fig. 40 . The Ram of the Akedah. Mahzor, Germany, c. 1250 -60. Oxford, Bodleian
Library MS Laud Or. 321, fo1. 184 (photo by permission of The
Bodleian Library, Oxford)
Fig.41. Hunted unicorn. Pentateuch, Brabant, 1310. Hamburg, Staats- und
Universitatsbibliothek, Cod. Levy 19, fo1. 97r (photo courtesy of the
Staats- und Universitiitsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky)
Fig. 42. Marc Chagall, White Crucifixion. The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of
Alfred S. Alschuler (photo: © 1996 Artists Rights Society [ARS], New
York / ADAGP, Paris)