My art-historical research operates at the intersection of Jewish visual culture, material religion, and textual traditions. I work comparatively across media—manuscript illumination, ritual objects, architectural settings, and institutional symbols—asking how images and objects shape religious practice, legal discourse, and collective memory, and how Jewish visuality develops through sustained contact with surrounding Christian and Islamic cultures.

A recurring methodological commitment is to read visual evidence with the same rigor as texts: iconography and style alongside codicology, philology, and archival context. This approach informs my work on manuscript culture and book history (including the visual and material “afterlives” of manuscripts), and also on the visual articulation of normativity and critique—such as rabbinic responses to ornamentation in sacred objects and manuscripts. In parallel, I examine modern forms of Jewish visual culture and institutional identity, including the history of academic emblems and design choices as cultural statements.

In addition to research and teaching, I contribute to the field’s scholarly infrastructure as a co-editor of Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art (https://jart.biu.ac.il/en/AJHome) and as a former board member of IMAGO – The Israeli Association for Visual Culture in the Middle Ages (https://www.imago-israel.com/).