{"id":542,"date":"2018-10-31T07:09:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/?p=542"},"modified":"2018-10-31T07:09:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:09:27","slug":"from-kurdistan-to-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"From Kurdistan to Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eliezer Baumgarten, <em>&#8216;From Kurdistan to Baghdad: Transitions of Visual Knowledge During the Early Modern Period&#8217;<\/em>, Ars Judaica 14 (2018) pp. 79-92<\/p>\n<p>Abstract<br \/>\nThe paper addresses two themes that have not received the attention they deserve in the existing<br \/>\nresearch: the presence of Kabbalah in Kurdistan and the transfer of visual Kabbalistic knowledge<br \/>\nbetween different cultures. It describes the way in which Italian visual objects were transferred to<br \/>\nKurdistan at the beginning of the seventeenth century, how they were adapted to Kurdish culture, and<br \/>\nhow they were then relocated and readapted following the immigration of Rabbinic Kurdish families<br \/>\nto Bagdad. The article focuses on the work of two scholars from Kurdistan: R. Yehoshua b. R. David<br \/>\nand R. Yehuda b. Pin.has. These two kabbalists created a kabbalistic ilan (literally: tree), a complex<br \/>\ndiagram consisting of drawings and texts and relating to the spheres of divine emanation. The ilan,<br \/>\nbased on Italian knowledge, teaches us about the various relations between Italy and Kurdistan in the<br \/>\nseventeenth century.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-543\" src=\"http:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/From-Kurdistan1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/From-Kurdistan1.jpg 667w, https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/From-Kurdistan1-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-544\" src=\"http:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/From-Kurdistan2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/From-Kurdistan2.jpg 661w, https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/From-Kurdistan2-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eliezer Baumgarten, &#8216;From Kurdistan to Baghdad: Transitions of Visual Knowledge During the Early Modern Period&#8217;, Ars Judaica 14 (2018) pp. 79-92 Abstract The paper addresses two themes that have not received the attention they deserve in the existing research: the presence of Kabbalah in Kurdistan and the transfer of visual Kabbalistic knowledge between different cultures. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/?p=542\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Kurdistan to Baghdad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}