Behold the Man

"[...] Behold the Man: Jesus in Israeli Art fills a crucial void in recent scholarship about the Jewish engagement with Christianity. Its comprehensive consideration of the topic, as well as the generally complex and innovative analyses of the art, make this a definitive volume for the study of the diversity and depth of not just Israeli, but Jewish visual culture as a whole." - Hebrew Higher Education, Melissa Weininger, April 2018

Nederlands Israëlitisch Weekblad, by Dikla Zohar, August 2017 (Dutch)

"...The research and curatorship of Mendelsohn continue a high-quality trajectory which has characterized the Israel Museum for years. The Museum exhibits important historical research-based exhibitions clearly connecting museological curatorship with academic-historical research. The Museum’s critics often argue that it prefers to research and examine culture over creating it in practice. But this distinction is not at all unambiguous. The exhibition “Behold the Man” opened just before the western date of Christmas during the stormy discourse in Israel on exhibiting “Christian symbols” in the public sphere..." - Religion and the Arts 21, by David Sperber, 2017