Dr. Monika Czekanowska-Gutman is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw. Her research focuses on twentieth-century Jewish art and culture in Israel and the America, and the contribution of modern Jewish artists to modern art. She has recently published a book by Brill based on her Ph.D. thesis on visual representations of Judith, Esther, and the Shulamite in modern Jewish art. She has also published in Ars Judaica, Images, and Religion and the Arts. Her current research project on depictions of the akedah as an actual sacrifice in modern and contemporary Jewish visual culture, funded by the National Science Centre, is being conducted in joint cooperation with Dr. Devorah Schoenfeld and Dr. Amitai Mendelsohn.