Information
Member of CODART since 2024
Areas of specialization
- Jewish ceremonial art
- European decorative arts
- Dutch 17th-century art
Exhibitions curated since 1999
Selected publications
2025
The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt
Abigail Rapoport (lead editor)
Catalogue of an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Yale University Press (New Haven) forthcoming: February 2025
‘Introduction: “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 A. Rapoport, catalogue of an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Yale University Press (New Haven) forthcoming: February 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
2020
‘Jews and the Decorative Arts in Early Modern Italy’
Essay in Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.
New York (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) May 2020