Zehava Jacoby

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Zehava Jacoby (née Sophia Feigenbaum; 24 January 1940 – December 1999) was an Israeli art historian who specialized in

Crusader art
.

Jacoby was born in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine). Her father, Yosef Feigenbaum, was killed in the Holocaust; her mother, Ella (née Fabian), survived by escaping a train that was taking her to an extermination camp and joined the Polish resistance. During this time Jacoby, baptized and renamed Barbara, lived hidden in the home of a Polish woman. After the war, she was reunited with her mother; from 1945 to 1949, they wandered through Poland, Germany, Italy, and South America. In 1949, they settled in Israel, but the mother died the same year.[1]

In 1964, Jacoby earned a

Crusader sculpture, and she devoted most of her time to the sculptures in Israel.[1] Using an 18th-century drawing by Elzear Horn, Jacoby was able to suggest a reconstruction of the tomb of King Baldwin V of Jerusalem, which had been destroyed in 1808.[2]

Jacoby was married to historian David Jacoby [he], with whom she had two daughters. She died suddenly in December 1999. Her life's work, an 800-photograph inventory of the remains of Crusader sculpture in Israel, was left unfinished. Her family donated the fruit of her research, a collection of photographs of Crusader sculpture in Israel, to the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library, which preserved it and made it accessible to the public.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Crusaders Sculpture in the Land of Israel. University of Haifa. Archived from the original on 26 October 2023. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  2. S2CID 192568024. Archived
    from the original on 2 November 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2023.

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