list of illustrations xiii
- Pair of silver rimmonim (Torah finials) in the form of a pagoda,
late nineteenth century. (Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Judaïsme,
Paris) - Torah case from Yemen, nineteenth century. (BibleLandPictures.
com/Alamy) - Curtain hung in front of the Torah ark, North Africa, twentieth
century. (Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Judaïsme, Paris) - Mass gathering of Satmar hasidim in Brooklyn, 2015. (Darren
Ornitz/Reuters) - Lubavitch student in Brooklyn under a portrait of the Lubavitcher
Rebbe, 2004. (Mark Boster/ Getty Images) - Girls at a bat mitzvah celebration, Manhattan, 1998. (Mark
Peterson/Getty Images) - Torah scrolls carried in procession, Pinner, United Kingdom, 1993.
(Geoffrey Shalet/Ark Religion.com/Art Directors & Trip Photo
Library) - The ordination of Rabbi Alina Treiger, Potsdam, Germany, 2010.
(© Camera Press, London) - Celebration of Simhat Torah, Jerusalem, 2013. (© Camera Press,
London)
The plan of the Second Temple on p. 47 is after Th. A. Busink,
Der Tempel von Jerusalem, 2 vols. (Leiden, 1980), vol. 2, p. 1179.