The Jewish Theological Seminary
Vivian Mann
Dr. Vivian Mann is director of the Master's Program in Jewish Art and Visual Culture at The Jewish Theological Seminary. She organizes the Faculty Seminar on Jewish Art (in partnership with The Jewish Museum) and is arranging JTS's Artist-in-Residence Program for spring 2009 and fall 2010.
For many years Dr. Mann was Morris and Eva Feld Chair of Judaica at The Jewish Museum, where she created numerous exhibitions and their catalogs, among them “Gardens and Ghettos: The Art of Jewish Life in Italy”; “Convivencia: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Medieval Spain”; and most recently, “Morocco: Jews and Art in a Muslim Land.” In 2000, her Jewish Texts on the Visual Arts was published by Cambridge University Press, and in 2005, her newest work, Art and Ceremony in Jewish Life: Essays in the History of Jewish Art, was published by Pindar Press. Dr. Mann's many articles and lectures cover a broad range of topics in medieval art and the history of Jewish art.
Dr. Mann has been a recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, NEA Fellowship for Museum Professionals, NEH Fellowship for Research, and the NEH Collaborative Projects Grant for Interpretative Research (with Richard I. Cohen). She has also been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University.
In 1999, Dr. Mann was awarded the Jewish Cultural Achievement Award in Jewish Thought by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture for her successful efforts at establishing a master's program in Jewish Art and for her scholarship in the field of Jewish art. In 2007, Dr. Mann (together with Steve Fine, Margaret Olin, and Catherine Soussloff) founded Images: A Journal in Jewish Art and Visual Culture, the first American journal in the field.
February 2009
Published Works
Books
Crowning Glory: Silver Torah Ornaments of The Jewish Museum, New York, editor and coauthor
Art and Ceremony in Jewish Life
Exhibition Catalogs
Danzig 1939: Treasures of a Destroyed Community, coauthor and editor
A Tale of Two Cities: Jewish Life in Frankfurt and Istanbul 1750–1870, coauthor and editor
Kings and Citizens: The History of the Jews in Denmark 1622–1983, coeditor with Norman L. Kleeblatt
The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collections, coauthor
Treasures of The Jewish Museum, coauthor with Norman L. Kleeblatt
Gardens and Ghettos: The Art of Jewish Life in Italy; Italian translation: I Tal Ya': Duemilla Anni di Arte e Vita Ebraica in Italia, coauthor and editor
Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain, coeditor and author
From Court Jews to the Rothschilds: Art, Patronage, and Power, 1600–1800, coeditor and author with Richard I. Cohen
Morocco: Jews and Art in a Muslim Land, coauthor and editor
