Contents

  Forward
  John Hunter

  Regional Variations of Italian Torah Ornaments
  Dora Liscia Bemporad

  Regional Variations of Torah Cases from the Islamic World
  Bracha Yaniv

  Persian Tale in Turkish Garb: Exotic Imagery in Eighteenth-Century Illustrated
  Esther Scrolls
  Sharon Liberman Mintz

  Danish Torah Binders: Traditionalism and Uniqueness
  Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig

  “With This Ring I Thee Wed”:  Unusual Jewish Wedding Rings
  Joseph Gutmann

  Scholar as Political Activist: Salo W. Baron and the Foundation of the Jewish
  Cultural Reconstruction
  Grace Cohen Grossman