"Garments of Reconciliation:" The Relationship Between Judaism and Islam in the Artworks of Andi Arnovitz
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines in depth works of Jewish-Israeli and modern-Orthodox artist Andi Arnovitz (b. US, 1959) that relate to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The article utilizes tools that arise from cultural research, in particular the critical and alternative view that feminist discourse offers with respect to the concept of multiculturalism. Thus the article makes use of concepts as the productive (Silverman), the ambivalent text (Lotman), and transversal politics (Yuval-Davis) to provide a platform for understanding the works. The article examines a corpus of artworks that address the other in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the emotional relationship towards pull of the land. Works of this kind constitute a significant bulk of Arnovitz's oeuvre. Thus, although her work is regarded through a very specific lens, this is also an opportunity to gain insights into the artist's overall manipulation of her materials. Moreover, the works discussed here will serve as a case in point of modern-Orthodox feminist art's broader occupation with relations between Judaism and Islam and with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This article will show how Arnovitz aims for a productive look, with her ambivalent gaze enabling a fresh look and re-examination of the other, from within traditional Jewish frameworks. Arnovitz brings deep humanistic sensitivity to her examination of Jewish-Islamic relations. A thorough examination of this voice reveals a combination of a conservative world and a profound and non-conformist spirit, based on the values of pluralism and humanism.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".