Scholion Research Group Examines Connections Between Religion and Art in Jewish Culture
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The Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish studies at the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies of the Hebrew University has recently welcomed its seventh research group that will work in Scholion over the next three years. Renowned scholars Ruth HaCohen Pinczower, Professor of Musicology; Galit Hazan-Rokem, Professor of Hebrew Literature and Jewish and Comparative Folklore; Richard Cohen, Professor of Jewish History; and Ilana Pardes, Professor of Comparative Literature, along with five doctoral students will examine the subject: The Exegetic Imagination: Connections between Religion and Art in Jewish Culture in its Contexts. |
This year's research group is examining the subject: The Exegetic Imagination: Connections between
Religion and Art in Jewish Culture in its Contexts.
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The research project focuses on an integrated examination of the religious and the artistic, and their aesthetic, experiential and interpretive aspects. Religion and art are two areas existing in culture, which are perceived by research both as interconnected and separate fields. The research group aims to examine the system of connections between them, and all its various aspects. They will pose questions both from an historic perspective and a phenomenological aspect, which will join forces in an attempt to understand the ways in which artistic traditions and genres contribute to religious (or, alternatively, secularized) consciousness and experience, and the manner in which these generate new artistic approaches.
In historical terms, their areas of interest include the latter part of ancient times, as well as the beginning of the modern era, focusing jointly on the 19th and early 20th centuries.
“We believe that Scholion’s shared framework offers a rare opportunity for us to join forces in promoting general research into the connections between art and religion, in the wider Jewish context and beyond, and to thus mutually reinforce our individual research work,” wrote the group in their research proposal.
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Scholion is an interdisciplinary research center in Jewish Studies located in the Hebrew University's Rabin Building on Mt. Scopus. Established by the President of the Hebrew University, Prof. Menachem Magidor, with the aid of a contribution from the Mandel Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio, Scholion conducts a range of multiyear research activities on an interdisciplinary basis.
To read more about Scholion: http://www.scholion.huji.ac.il/eng
