Zehava Jacoby

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Crusader period capital of the Annunciation Church in Nazareth

Zehava Jacoby (זהבה יעקבי), born as Sophia Feigenbaum (born January 24, 1940 in Lviv ; † December 1999 ) was an Israeli art historian who is known for her work on the art of the Crusader period.

Her parents were the mechanic Józef Feigenbaum (* 1923) and El (l) a geb. Fabian. The father was murdered in the Shoah . Ella Feigenbaum managed to escape from a train that would have taken her to an extermination camp; she joined the partisans . Sophia, the young couple's only child, was hidden in their house by a Polish woman during the war years. She was baptized as a Catholic in the name of Barbara.

After the end of the war, Ella Feigenbaum took her daughter with her on a journey through Germany, Italy and South America. In 1949 they both arrived in Israel after their alias , where their mother died. Zehava Jacoby was an orphan at the age of nine.

A bachelor's degree in English and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was followed by a master's degree in art history. In 1976 Zehava Jacoby received his doctorate with a thesis on the sculpture of the church and the Anzy-le-Duc monastery . She taught art history at the University of Haifa , most recently as senior lecturer , and headed the department from 1978 to 1982. She died without being able to complete her life's work: a complete documentation of the sculpture of the crusader era in the land of Israel. The photo collection created by Zehava Jacoby for this publication was handed over by the family to the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library of the University of Haifa and is available in digitized form.

One result of Jacoby's research was that sculptures could be assigned to specific workshops, such as the temple area workshop, and that assumptions about the origin of the stonemasons working here were possible. In the case of the unusually well-preserved capitals discovered near the Church of the Annunciation at Nazareth, Jacoby thought it possible to reconstruct the west portal to which they originally belonged.

Zehava Jacoby was married to David Jacoby and had two children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names. In: Yad Vashem. Retrieved July 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Jacoby, Zehava
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feigenbaum, Sophia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv
DATE OF DEATH December 1999