1) The Elusive Hare: Jewish Art and Jewish Identities
2) Birds’ Head Revisited: Jews and Others
3) Riding the Road to Redemption: Jews and Sacred History
Apparently “innocent” images— the hares that keep recurring on the opening pages of decorated haggadot; the peculiar, perhaps comic, figures with bird and animal heads; a modest woman riding on a donkey— can teach us a great deal about the most crucial issues facing Jews in both medieval and modern times— their self-image, their relations with their neighbors and their relationship with God.