Information
Member of CODART since 2024
Areas of specialization
- Jewish ceremonial art
- European decorative arts
- Dutch 17th-century art
- Medieval art history
Exhibitions curated since 1999
Selected publications
2025
‘Celebrating the Book of Esther in Rembrandt’s Amsterdam: Art, Culture, and Purim’ and ‘Theatrical Connections: Staging the Story of Esther in Rembrandt’s Time’
Essays in The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt, edited by Abigail Rapoport with Michele F. Frederick, catalogue of exhibition co-organized by the Jewish Museum, New York and the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh.
New Haven (Yale University Press) 2025
2024
‘Staging the Book of Esther in Rembrandt’s Time’
Essay in Directed by Rembrandt: Rembrandt and the World of Theatre, edited by L. van Sloten, E. Runia, and N. Maciesza, catalogue of an exhibition at the Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, pp. 116–17.
Amsterdam (WBOOKS) 2024
‘Memory and Inheritance: Paintings and Ceremonial Objects by Tobi Kahn’
Abigail Rapoport and Tobi Kahn, published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Museum at Eldridge Street, New York, NY.
Primedia eLaunch LLC, 2024
2022
Covenantal Connections: Visualizing Mosaic Law in the Middle Ages.
PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania.