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1. Doctoral Dissertation

    "Gauguin's Religious Themes," 1969, 695 pp. + illustrations. Supervisor: Prof.   Moshe Barasch.  Doctorate granted, Summa cum laude, June 1970.

2. Books

   1.  Chagall at the Knesset, New York: Tudor, 1973, 116 pp.

   2.  Jakob Steinhardt: Etchings and Lithographs, Tel Aviv: Dvir, 1981, 142  pp. + 27 pp. Hebrew translation.

   3.  The Attitude to Technology in Twentieth Century Art, Tel Aviv: Open University, 1981-82.  Development and supervision of course; writing two units: "Art and Technology in the Nineteenth Century" (82 pp.) and "Abstract Art" (95 pp.); and editing all and rewriting many of the other units.  Total size of course: 1200 pp. (in Hebrew).

   4.  Gauguin's Religious Themes, New York: Garland Press, Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts, 1985, 541 pp. + illustrations.  Revision of Doctoral Dissertation with many additions.

   5.  Eli Bar-On and Ziva Amishai-Maisels, The Late Woodcuts of Jakob Steinhardt, Nahariya: Bar-On, 1987, 79 pp. + 8 pp. Hebrew translation.

   6.  Depiction and Interpretation: the Influence of the Holocaust on the Visual Arts, Oxford: Pergamon, 1993, 571 pp. + illustrations.

   7.  "Les Artistes Juifs du XVIIIe Siècle à Nos Jours," in Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, Ziva Amishai-Maisels, Dominique Jarrassé, Rudolf Klein and Ronny Reich, L'Art Juif, Paris: Citadelles et Mazenod, 1995, pp. 323-87, 493-516.

   7a. English translation: Jewish Art, New York: Abrams, 1997.

   7b. German translation:  Die Jüdische Kunst, Freiburg: Herder, 1997.

3. Books edited

   1.  Sources in Modern Art, Part I: The Nineteenth Century, Jerusalem: Akadmon, 1964, 382 pp.  Five editions, 1964-1984.

   2.  Sources in Modern Art, Part II: The Twentieth Century, Jerusalem: Akadmon, 1977, 455 pp.

   3.  General Introduction to Art History, Sourcebook, Jerusalem: Akadmon, 1971, with original material: "How to look at a building," "How to look at a sculpture," "How to look at a painting," pp. 19-38 (in Hebrew).

   4. Painting and Art Education from Kindergarten through the Sixth Grade, a program for Art Education, Jerusalem: Ministry of Education and Culture, 1978, 42 pp. (in Hebrew).

   5.  Teaching Jewish Art in the University,  Jerusalem: International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, 1993, 45 pp., also issued as "Teaching Jewish Art in a University Framework," Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, no. 33, 1993, pp. 3-41.

   6.  Jewish Art, vol. 21-22, 1995-96: Eastern Europe 1, Guest Co-Editor.

4. Scientific Articles

   1.  "Chagall's Jerusalem Windows," Molad, Aug.-Sept. 1964, pp. 305-31 (in Hebrew).

   1a. Chosen to be included in a Yiddish translation in a  special edition of Die Goldene Keit, dedicated to Chagall, no. 60, 1967, pp. 73-84.

   2.  "Lipchitz -- Themes within a Jewish Context," Jacques Lipchitz at Eighty, Jerusalem: Israel Museum, Aug.-Sept. 1971, unpaged (5 pp., also in Hebrew).

   3.  "Chagall's Jerusalem Windows -- Iconography and Sources," Scripta Hierosolymitana, vol. 24: Studies in Art, Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1972, pp. 146-82.

   4.  "Gauguin's Philosophical Eves," Burlington Magazine, vol. 115, June 1973, pp. 373-82.

   5.  "Chagall and the Knesset -- Iconography and Sources ofhis work for Jerusalem's Parliament," The Fifth World Congress of Jewish Studies, vol. 4, Jerusalem: World Congress of Jewish Studies, 1972, pp. 155-70.

   6.  "Lipchitz and Picasso: Thematic Interpenetrations," Journal of Jewish Art, vol. 1, 1974, pp. 80-92.

   7.  "A Gauguin Sketchbook: Arles and Brittany," Israel Museum News, no. 10, 1975, pp. 68-87.

   8.  Analysis of works by Gauguin, Balla, Chagall, Kandinsky, Lipchitz and Severini, in A Tribute to Sam Zacks, Jerusalem: Israel Museum, Summer 1976, nos. 4, 32, 33, 35, 39 and 41.

   8a. Balla entry reprinted: On Paper, In Paper, With Paper, Jerusalem:  Israel Museum, Fall 1990, pp. 210-11.   

   9.  "Steinhardt's Call for Peace," Journal of Jewish Art, vol.3-4, 1977, pp. 90-102.                    

   9a. German translation in Jakob Steinhardt: Der Prophet, Berlin: Jüdisches Museum im Berlin Museum, 1995, pp. 114-130.

   10. "Gauguin's Early Tahitian Idols," Art Bulletin, vol. 60, June 1978, pp. 331-41.

   10a. Italian translation in Paul Gauguin e l'avanguardia russa, Florence: Artificio, 1995, pp. 167-179.

   11. "Chagall's Jewish In-Jokes," Journal of Jewish Art, vol. 5, 1978, pp. 76-93.

   11a. Russian translation in Israel Panorama, nos. 275-76, Aug.1992, pp. 133-45.

   12. "Chagall and Jewish Art," Gazith, vol. 32, 1978, pp. 180-82 (in Hebrew).

   13. "Introduction," The Pessach Haggada, with woodcuts by Jakob Steinhardt and lettering by Franzisca Baruch (facsimile), Tel Aviv: Dvir, 1979, 1 p.

   14. "The Jewish Jesus," Journal of Jewish Art, vol. 9, 1982, pp. 84-104.

   15. "Lipchitz and the Holocaust," Rimonim, vol. 1, 1983, pp. 7-16 (in Hebrew).

   15a. Translated into Russian in Evreyskoe Iskusstvo v Evropeyskom Kontekste,  Moscow, 2002, pp. 249-66.

   16. "Book Review: Abba Kovner and Dan Reisinger, Scrolls of Fire," Ariel, vol. 53, 1983, pp. 130-32.

   17. "Steinhardt's Dream and Stramm's Awakening," Norms and Variations in Art, Hebrew University Studies in Literature and Art, 1983, pp. 204-34.

   18. "Chagall y Ardon: La problematica del arte judio moderno,"Dialogo, no. 15, 1983, pp. 34-41.

   18a. Published in the original Hebrew in Art and Judaism, ed. David Cassuto, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University (1990), pp. 397-428.

   19. "Book Review: Miriam Novitch, Lucy Dawidowicz and Tom Freudenheim, Spiritaul Resistance; and Janet Blatter and Sybil Milton, Art of the Holocaust," Studies in Contemporary Jewry, vol. 1, 1984, pp. 512-15.

   20. "Steinhardt and Bialik," Jewish Book Annual, vol. 42, 1984-85, pp. 137-49.

   21. "Book Review: Avram Kampf, Jewish Experience in the Art of the Twentieth Century," Journal of Jewish Art, vol. 11, 1985, pp. 73-75.

   22. "Where Past Meets Present: The Art of Ardon," Ardon –A Retrospective, Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum, May 28-Sept. 1985, unpaged (pp. 3-14).  Also translated into Hebrew in the same volume.  

   23. "The Use of Biblical Imagery to Interpret the Holocaust," Proceedings, Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem: World Congress of Jewish Studies, 1986, Division D, vol. 2, pp. 17-24.

   24. "The Unknown Bezem," Naftali Bezem, Tel Aviv: Sifriat Hapoalim, 1986, pp. ix-l.  Also translated into Hebrew in the same volume, pp. 9-47.

   25. "Ben Shahn and the Problem of Jewish Identity," Jewish Art, vol. 12-13, 1986-87, pp. 304-19.

   26. "The Complexities of Witnessing," Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 1987, pp. 123-47.

   26a. Reprinted in After Auschwitz: Responses to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art, Monica Bohm-Duchen, ed. Sunderland:Northern Centre for Contemporary Art and London: Lund Humphries, 1995, pp. 25-48.

   27. "Center or Periphery: Chagall and the Jewish Revival," Tradition and Revolution: The Jewish Renaissance in Russian Avant-Garde Art 1912-1928, Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1987, pp. 71-100.

   27a. Italian translation in Chagall e il suo mondo tra Vitebske Parigi, Florence: Artificio, 1994, pp. 23-62.

   28. "The Visual Arts: Interaction between Israel and the Diaspora," Israel, Diaspora and Jewish Culture, New York: Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 1988, pp. 1-14.

   29. Analyses of works by Gauguin, Marc, Soutine and Picasso, in Monet to Matisse: Modern Masters from Swiss Private Collections, Jerusalem: Israel Museum, Oct. 1988-Jan. 1989, pp. 18-19, 46-47, 70-71, 104-7.

   30. "The Iconographic Use of Abstraction in Jankel Adler's Late Works," Artibus et Historiae, no. 17, 1988, pp. 55-70.

   31. "Christological Symbolism of the Holocaust," Remembering for the Future, Oxford: Pergamon, 1988, pp. 1657-71.

   31a. Reprinted in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 3, 1988, pp. 457-81.

   31b. Translated into Hungarian as “Hit, etika és a holokauszt,” Múlt és Jövö, nos.   2-3, 2002, pp. 121-37. pp. 121-37.

   32. "The Artist as Refugee," Art and Its Uses: The Visual Image and Modern Jewish Society, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Oxford: Oxford University Press, vol. 6, 1990, pp. 111-48.

   33. "Paul Gauguin: Visiteur ou Resident?," Rencontres Gauguin à Tahiti, Papeete: Aurea, 1990, pp. 77-87.  

   34. "Chagall's Murals at the State Jewish Chamber Theatre in Moscow," in Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Marc Chagall, the Russian Years, 1906-1922, June 16-Sept. 8, 1991, pp. 107-27. Also in the German edition. See also no. 40.

   35. "The Visual Arts as an Aid for Teaching about the Holocaust," in The Holocaust in University Teaching, ed. Gideon Shimoni, Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1991, pp. 1-8.

   36. "Problems of Identity in the Art of German Jews," The Jewish Legacy and the German Conscience, ed. Moses Rischin and Rapahel Asher, Berkeley: The Judah L. Magnes Museum, 1991, pp. 249-75.

   37. "Gauguin: dualisme iconographique et stylistique," Gauguin: Actes du colloque Gauguin, Musée d'Orsay, 11-13 janvier 1989, Paris: La Documentation Française, 1991, pp. 201-11.

   38. "Chagall's White Crucifixion," Chicago Art Institute Bulletin, vol. 17, no. 2, 1991, pp. 138-53.

   39. "Innenseiter/Aussenseiter: Moderne jüdische Künstler im Portrait," in Berliner Festspiele, Jüdische Lebenswelten, Essays, 1991, pp. 165-84.

   40. "Chagall's Murals for the State Jewish Chamber Theatre," in Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Chagall: Dreams and Drama, Early Russian Works and Murals for the Jewish Theatre, ed. Ruth Apter-Gabriel, Autumn 1993, expanded version of no. 34 above, pp. 21-39,  also in Hebrew translation in the same volume.

   40a. Reprinted with minor additions in new German translation in Vienna, Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Chagall: Bilder, Träume, Theater 1908-1920, Mar. 10-June 12, 1994, pp. 22-56.

   40b. Reprinted with further minor additions in Italian translation in Milan, Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta, Marc Chagall: Il Teatro di Sogni, Autumn 1994, pp. 57-78.

   40c. Shortened version translated into Greek in Athens, Mega­ron Concert Hall, Russian Avantgarde 1919-1930: Graphics for the Theatre; Marc Chagall: Jewish Theatre, Moscow, Feb. 24-May 25, 1997, unpaged.

   40d. Revised version with additions translated into Dutch in Amsterdam, Joods Historisch Museum, Marc Chagall en het Joods Theater, Oct. 13, 2002-Jan. 12, 2003, pp. 44-74, 118-21.

   41. "Marc Chagall: Sacrifice of Isaac," Bible Review, vol. 9, Oct. 1993, p. 54.

   42. "Chagall et la Terre Sainte," in Andros, Fondation Basiland Elise Goulandris  Musée d'art moderne, Chagall méditerranéen, Summer 1994, pp. 22-33 (French and Greek translations of an English text).

   43. "Chagall's Golgotha:  Sources and Meanings," Proceedings of the Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies Papers, Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1994, Division D, vol. 2, pp. 39-46.

   44. "The Pain and Joy of Life," Sima Lapidot, Jerusalem: Artists' House, Nov. 1994, pp. 60-66 (also translated into Hebrew in the same volume).

   45. "The Visual Arts and the Holocaust," Mahana'im: Al Ha'shoa 2 (in Hebrew), Dec. 1994, pp. 286-303.

   46. "Art Confronts the Holocaust," After Auschwitz: Responses to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art, Monica Bohm-Duchen,ed., Sunderland: Northern Centre for Contemporary Art and London: Lund Humphries, 1995, pp. 49-77. See also additional article in that volume in no. 26a.

   47. "The Three Faces of Jakob Steinhardt," in Jakob Steinhardt - Der Prophet, Berlin: Jüdisches Museum im Berlin Museum, 1995, pp. 23-46. See also additional article in that volume in 9a.

   48. "Teaching of Jewish Art at the University Level," in Moshe Davis, ed., Teaching Jewish Civilization: A Global Approach to Higher Education, New York: New York University Press, 1995, pp. 164-168.  Hebrew edition: pp. 95-96.

   49. "The Jewish Awakening: A Search for National Identity," in Russian Jewish Artists in a Century of Change, 1890-1990, Munich: Prestel and New York: Jewish Museum, 1995, pp. 54-70.

   50. "Book Review: James E. Young, The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meanings,"  Studies in Contemporary Jewry, 1995, pp. 247-49.

   51. "Chagall's Dedicated to Christ: Sources and Meaning,"Jewish Art 21-22: Eastern Europe 1, 1995-96, pp. 68-94.

   52. "Steinhardt in the Land of Israel," in Tefen, The Open Museum, Jacob and Israel: Homeland and Identity in the Work of Jakob Steinhardt, Jan. 1998, pp. 70-126 (Hebrew), 197-230 (English).

   53. Analysis of works by Picasso, Marc, Severini, Kupka and Janco in The Joy of Color: The Merzbacher Collection, Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1998, pp. 44-45, 162-65, 228-29, 242-49.

   53a. Entries on Kupka, Marc, Picasso and Severini reprinted in Masters of Colour: Derain to Kandinsky - Masterpieces from the Merzbacher Collection,  London: Royal Academy, July 26-Nov. 17, 2002, pp. 152-53, 158, 163, 167, 171.

   54. "Chagall in the Holy Land: The Real and the Ideal," Jewish Art 23-24: The Real and Ideal Jerusalem in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Art, 1997-98, pp. 513-42.

   55. "Exhibition Review: "Too Jewish: Challenging Traditional Identities," Jewish Art 23-24: The Real and Ideal Jerusalem in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Art, 1997-98, pp. 630-34.

   56. "Review of Matthew Baigell, Jewish-American Artists and the Holocaust," Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 12, Winter 1998, pp. 494-97.

   57. Review of Lawrence L. Langer, Landscapes of Jewish Experience: Paintings by Samuel Bak, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 13, Spring 1999, pp. 132-33.

   58. "The Demonization of the "Other" in the Visual Arts," Demonizing the Other: Antisemitism, Racism and Xenophobia, Jerusalem: Vidal Sasoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism and Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999, pp. 44-72.

   59. "The Visual Arts as as Aid for Teaching the Holocaust at the Elementary and High School Levels," in Holocaust and Education, Proceedings of the First International Conference, The International School for Holocaust Studies, Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1999, pp. 109-14.

   60. "Love Letters from Abroad," in Tefen, Open Museum, Naftali Bezem Rope Ladder 1997-1999, Jan. 2000, pp. 17-28, (Hebrew), 92-105 (English).

   61. "Die Dualität in den Selbstportraits von Paul Gauguin," in Graz, Landesmuseum Joanneum, ­Paul Gauguin: Von der Bretagne nach Tahiti - Ein Aufbruch zur Moderne, June 10-Oct. 1, 2000, pp. 47-60.

   62. "Jacob Pins: Beneath the Surface," in Jacob Pins: Drawings and Oil Paintings, 1942-2000, Jerusalem, Artists House, Oct.-Nov. 2000, pp.4-21 (in Hebrew and English).

   63. "La tradizione ebraica nell'arte di Chagall," in Lugano, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Marc Chagall, Mar.8-July 1, 2001, pp. 49-66 (also in German translation in separate catalogue).

64.   "Origins of the Jewish Jesus," in Complex Identities: Jewish Consciousness and Modern Art, ed. Matthew Baigell and Milly Heyd.  Rutgers: Rutgers University Press, 2001, pp. 51-86.

65.   “Der jüdische Jesus,” in Museum Bochum, Das Recht des Bildes: Jüdische Perpektiven in der Modernen Kunst, Sept. 21, 2003-Jan. 4, 2004, Berlin: Reschke, Steffans & Kruse, 2003, pp. 223-37. New version that combines nos. 14 and 64.

66.   “Chagall und der Holocaust,” in Frankfurt,  Jüdisches Museum and Berlin, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Verehrt und Verfemt: Chagall und Deutschland, February 1-August 1, 2004, Munich: Prestel, 2004, pp. 124-33.

67.   “James Young, At Memory’s Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture (review),” Zion, vol. 69, no. 3, 2004, pp. 386-90 (in Hebrew).

   68.  “In Memoriam: Moshe Barasch (1920-2004),” Ars Judaica, vol. 1, 2005, pp. 156-58.

   69.  “Haunting the Empty Place,” in Stephen C. Feinstein, ed., Absence/Presence: Critical Essays on the Artistic Memory of the Holocaust, Syracuse University Press, 2005, pp. 123-50.

70.   “Alexander Bogen – Introduction,” in Alexander Bogen, Tel Aviv, 2005, pp. 226-29 (English), pp. 9-15 ( Hebrew).

71.   “Review: Shelley Hornstein and Florence Jacobowitz, eds., Image and Remembrance: Representation and the Holocaust,” in Studies in Contemporary Jewry, vol. 21, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 352-55.

72.   Brief articles on Gauguin’s paintings and sculptures in the Israel Museum, in Stephanie Rachum, ed., Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, Painting and Sculpture from the Collection of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2006, pp. 134-41 (in Hebrew).

73.    “Menasseh Ben Israel and the Wandering Jew,”Ars Judaica,  no. 2, 2006,  pp. 59-82. 

73a. Translation into Hebrew in Timora, no. 1, 2006, pp. 87-110.

5. Articles in Encyclopedias

   1.  "Picasso," Hebrew Encyclopedia, Jerusalem: Massada, vol. 27, pp. 768-71 (in Hebrew).

   2.  "Cubism,"  Hebrew Encyclopedia, Jerusalem: Massada, vol. 29, pp. 211-12 (in Hebrew).

   3.  "Chagall," Hebrew Encyclopedia, Jerusalem: Massada, vol. 31, pp. 450-53 (in Hebrew). 

   4.  "Steinhardt," Hebrew Encyclopedia, Jerusalem: Massada, vol. 31, pp. 747-48 (in Hebrew).

   5.  "Art of the Holocaust," Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, New York: Macmillan, 1990, vol. 1, pp. 90-100.  Also in the Hebrew edition (Yad Vashem, 1990), as "The Holocaust in Art," vol. 5, pp. 1185-95.

   6.  "Art in the Camps and Ghettos" and "Art Influenced by the Holocaust," Children's Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, 1996, pp.    .

   7.  Ziva Amishai-Maisels and Gannit Ankori, "American Jewish Women Artists," Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, New York: Routledge, 1997, vol. 1, pp. 68-79.

6. In Press

1. “Jewish Art in the 19^th Century: From the Emancipation to a National Style,” in The Encyclopedia of Jewish Culture in the Era of Modernization and Secularization (in Hebrew), Jerusalem: Lamda, 2005, 11 pp.

2. “Review: Lawrence L. Langer, In a Different Light: The Book of Genesis in the Art of Samuel Bak and  Edith Balas, The Holocaust in the Painting of Valentin Lustig,” The Jewish Quarterly Review, 2005, 4 pp.

3.      “Art Influenced by the Holocaust,” Encyclopedia Judaica, online, 5 pp.

4.      “Modern Jewish Art,” Encyclopedia Judaica, online, 11 pp.

5.      “Moshe Barasch,” Encyclopedia Judaica, online, 2 pp.

6.   "Review of: Samantha Baskind, Raphael Soyer and the Search for Modern Jewish Art," Studies in Contemporary Jewry," 4 pp.