Zvi Orgad
Biographic Data
| ID | 8962234 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zvi Orgad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zvi |
| FAMILY NAME | Orgad |
| SIGNATURE | ORGAD Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2292-5410 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Modern Jewish Flood
In modern Jewish thought in Eastern Europe, the biblical narratives of the Flood (Mabul) and Noah’s Ark took on new symbolic meanings. Although these narratives had long occupied a place in religious interpretation and storytelling, they gained renewed significance in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially in Yiddish literature and modern Jewish intellectual discourse. This article examines how the Flood transformed from a bibli…
Painting the Sacred
This article examines the painted Torah ark as a form of material religion through which early modern rural Jewish communities shaped sacred space and articulated religious belonging. Focusing on a group of wooden synagogues in rural Franconia, Bavaria, and Württemberg, decorated between 1732 and 1740 by a school of painters led by the itinerant painter Eliezer-Zusman of Brody, the study analyzes a rare shift from carved-wood or stone arks to ful…
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The Modern Jewish Flood
In modern Jewish thought in Eastern Europe, the biblical narratives of the Flood (Mabul) and Noah’s Ark took on new symbolic meanings. Although these narratives had long occupied a place in religious interpretation and storytelling, they gained renewed significance in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially in Yiddish literature and modern Jewish intellectual discourse. This article examines how the Flood transformed from a bibli…
Painting the Sacred
This article examines the painted Torah ark as a form of material religion through which early modern rural Jewish communities shaped sacred space and articulated religious belonging. Focusing on a group of wooden synagogues in rural Franconia, Bavaria, and Württemberg, decorated between 1732 and 1740 by a school of painters led by the itinerant painter Eliezer-Zusman of Brody, the study analyzes a rare shift from carved-wood or stone arks to ful…
Central European national history (2 works) · Judaism (2 works) · Flood myth (1 work) · German (1 work) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (1 work) · Interpretation (philosophy) (1 work) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (1 work) · Jewish culture (1 work) · Jewish identity (1 work) · Jewish Identity and Society (1 work)