Rajner Mirijam Cv

MIRJAM RAJNER

Curriculum Vitae – born March 30, 1959, Sombor, Yugoslavia
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2007-2010 Israeli Science Foundation grant; Research topic:" Jewish Artists from former Yugoslavia during the Era of Holocaust."
2007 Post-doctoral Fellowship, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, USA
2007 co-editor, Ars Judaica, Bar Ilan Journal of Jewish Art
2006-07 The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture fellowship: Research topic:" Jewish Artists from former Yugoslavia during the Era of Holocaust."
2006 Book review editor, Ars Judaica, Bar Ilan Journal of Jewish Art
2005 Post-doctoral Fellowship, the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. Research topic:" Jewish Artists from former Yugoslavia during the Era of Holocaust and its Aftermath.
2004 Ph.D. degree History of Art Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Thesis: "Marc Chagall, 1906-1910," supervisor: Prof. Ziva Amishai-Maisels.
2000-present Lecturer at Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies, Jerusalem.
1996 - present Lecturer at the Department for Jewish Art, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University. Courses: Modern Jewish Art; Chagall and Jewish Art in Russia; Holocaust and Jewish Art; The image of Wandering Jew in Modern Art; The Jewish Artists and Abstract Art; Stage Design in Jewish Theaters; Introduction to Jewish Art (part II, 18th-20th centuries), Introduction to General Art (part II, 14th-20th centuries).
1993 - 1996 Council for Higher Education, Planning and Budget Committee's scholarship.
1990 Mordechai Narkiss Award for studies in Jewish Art.
1990 M.A. degree, History of Art Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Thesis: "Russian Jewish Artists, 1862-1912" supervisor: Prof. Ziva Amishai-Maisels.
1987- 2000 Teaching assistant and instructor at History of Art Department, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Rothberg School for Overseas Students, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; History of Art Department, The Hebrew University, Rehovot. Courses: Introduction to Modern Art, Russian Avant-Garde Art, Jewish Art in Russia under Tsars and Soviets, Russian and Modern Jewish Art in the Era of the Revolution, Jewish Art Through Ages, Modern Jewish Art, Cubism and its Influences.
1988-93 Head of the Modern Jewish Art Section, Center for Jewish Art, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 1989-90 documentation and research of modern Jewish art collections in the USSR.
1984-88 Documentation and research of Jewish ceremonial objects and synagogues at the Synagogues and Ceremonial Objects Section, Center for Jewish Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. During the summers 1985-87 documented synagogues and Jewish ceremonial art collections in Yugoslavia.
1982-83 Graduate work in Jewish Studies at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg, Germany.
1981-82 Assistant curator, Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade.
1977-1982 B.A. degree, History of Art Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Thesis: "Domed Synagogues on The Territory of Yugoslavia at the End of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Centuries." Supervisor: Prof. Vojislav Korać.
1977 Completed high school, Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

Languages:
Serbian and Croatian, English, Hebrew (speaking, reading, writing)
German, Russian (speaking, reading)
French, Italian, Yiddish (reading)

Selected Publications:
1. "Sinagoge sa kupolom na podrucju Jugoslavije" (Domed Synagogues on the Territory of Yugoslavia), Zbornik, no. 5, Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade, 1987, pp. 218-226 (Serbo-Croat).
2. "Sinagogalna arhitektura," (Synagogual Architecture) in S. Goldsetin, ed. Zidovi na tlu Jugoslavije , (Jews in Yugoslavia, exh. cat.), Muzejski prostor, Zagreb, 1987, pp. 39-48 (Serbo-Croat).
3. "The Awakening of Jewish National Art in Russia," Jewish Art , vol. 16/17, 1990-91, pp. 98-121.
4. "Jevrejska groblja u Beogradu," (Jewish Cemeteries in Belgrade), Zbornik , no. 6, Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade, 1992, pp. 201-215.
5. "Chagall and Russian Futurism: 'The One-and-a-Half-Eyed Archer'," Proccedings of the 11th World Congress of Jewish Studies , Jerusalem, 1994, pp. 47-54.
6. "Levitan's 'Jewish Graveyard'," The Israel Museum Journal , vol. XII, Summer 1994, pp. 29-34.
7. "Chagall: the Artist and the Poet," Jewish Art, Eastern Europe 1 , vol. 21/22, 1995-96, pp. 41-67.
8. "The Events of 1905 in Chagall’s Early Works," Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Winter 2004, 2 (53), pp. 33-57.
9. " Parokhet as a Picture: Chagall's 1908-09 Prayer Desk," Studia Rosenthaliana, vol. 37 (2004), pp. 193-222.
10. "Chagal’s Fiddler," Ars Judaica, The Bar Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, Vol. 1, 2005, pp. 117- 132.
11. Biographies of Samuel Hirszenberg, Izidor Kaufmann, Leonid Pasternak and Leopold Pilichowski for The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews In Eastern Europe, (forthcoming).

12. "Chagall's 'Wedding', 1908-1909", Timorah, The Bar Ilan Journal of Jewish Art, special issue published in Hebrew in honor of the Bar Ilan University's 50th Anniversary, 2006, pp. 151-162.

Forthcoming Publications:
13. "The Iconography of the Holy Family in Chagall's 1909-1910 Works" Jewish and Christian Perspectives series 2007-08, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Holland.
14. "Marc Chagall's 1909 Female Portraits: the Artist painting Women – or Women Shaping his Art?" Nashim, A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues, no. 14, 2007.
15. "Adolf Weiller – an Attempt to Reconstruct a Jewish Artist's Biography" Zbornik jevrejskog istorijskog muzeja, no. 9, 2007 (The Jewish Historical Museum Journal, Belgrade, Serbia) (Serbian with English summary).

Participation at International Conferences

2007 "The Iconography of the Holy Family in Chagall's 1909-1910 Works" Jewish and Christian Perspectives -"Isolation, Independence, Syncretism and Dialogue: Models of interaction between Judaism and Christianity in past and present", Catholic Theological University of Utrecht, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan and the Schechter Institute for Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, January 21-24, 2007.
2006 "The Art of a Sephardic Artist Created during the Holocaust: Daniel Ozmo's Dalmatian Motifs Painted in Jasenovac," 6th International Conference Social and Cultural History of the Jews on the Eastern Adriatic Coast with the co-operation of Moshe David Gaon Center for Ladino Culture – "Te Jews and the Sea," Dubrovnik, Croatia
2006 "Chagall in Love," European Association for Jewish Studies, 8th Congress, Moscow
2005 "Be Fruitful and Multiply: Love, Sex, Marriage and Childbirth in Chagall's Early Works," 14th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem
2005 "The Influence of Mikhail Vrubel upon Early Works of Marc Chagall," International Conference on Russian Jewish Cultural Exchange in the 20th Century, Bar Ilan University
2004 "Music and Theater in the Works of Marc Chagall between 1908 and 1910," 14th International Chagall Conference, The Marc Chagall Center, Vitebsk, Beloruss
2002 "Life as Theater: the Influence of Stage Design on Chagall's 1908- 1910 Works," European Association for Jewish Studies, 7th Congress, Amsterdam.
2001 "Chagall's Fiddler," 13th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem
1999 "The Chapter 'Lech-Lecha' and its Interpretation in the Works of the Modern East-European Jewish Artists," The Sixth International Seminar on Jewish Art, Jerusalem
1997 "Jewish artists in Russia: The Search for National Identity, the Struggle for Equality," at Emancipation and Jewish Artists; A Comparative European Perspective Seminar, The Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Committee for History and Culture of the Jews in Holland, Amsterdam
1997 "Chagall's 'Dead Man'," 12th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem
1993 "Chagall: the Artist and the Poet," The Fourth International Seminar on Jewish Art, Jerusalem
1993 "Chagall and Russian Futurism: The One-and-a-half-eyed Archer," 11th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem
1991 "Leonid Pasternak as a Jewish Artist," The Third International Seminar on Jewish Art, Jerusalem
1989 "Leon Bakst's Jewish Dancer," 10th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem
1988 "Antokolsky, Stasov, Ginzburg - Awakening of Jewish National Art in Russia" The Second International Seminar on Jewsih Art, Jerusalem

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