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Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and Literature. By Marc Michael Epstein. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. xix + 180 pp. $40.00 cloth.
Paintings of lions, hares, elephants, dragons, and unicorns appear in illuminated medieval Hebrew manuscripts. They also appear on the walls or ceilings of fully decorated early modern East European wooden synagogues. What do these beasts mean, and what are they doing there? According to Marc M....