Catalog of Catalogs Online, A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica

Jewish Art from the Hebrew Union College and other Collections
(144 words)

Author & Curator

Franz Landsberger.

Collection

HUC-JIR Skirball Museum, Cincinnati

Imprint

Hartford, Conn., USA, 1955. Booklet, 21 pp., 2 pls., illustrations: 3 b&w, 15.5 × 23 cm. English.

Location

Wadsworth Atheneum (10–27 February 1955)

Description

A traveling exhibition of ceremonial objects, held in honor of the 300th anniversary of Jewish settlement in America. Foreword by C.C. Cunningham. Preface by Abraham J. Feldman. Introduction and text by Franz Landsberger, with object descriptions reprinted from his catalog of an exhibition held at the Cincinnati Art Museum in 1947 [#106] that included these same objects. 93 items.

main keywords

CEREMONIAL OBJECTS
TORAH ORNAMENTS

minor keywords

Amulets
Besamim
Bezalel Art School
Book bindings
Challah boards/plates
Circumcision implements/objects
Etrog containers
Hanukkah lamps
Havdalah cups
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Persian
Keter Torah
Ketubbot
Kiddush cups
Pesach plates
Rimmonim
Schulklopfer
Scrolls of Esther, cases
Scrolls of Esther, illuminated
Shabbat lamps
Tass
Torah Ark curtains
Torah binders
Torah mantles
Torah staves
Wedding plates
Yad

Other venues

Washington, D.C., USA; Philadelphia, Pa., USA; Brooklyn, N.Y., USA

Cite this page
“Jewish Art from the Hebrew Union College and other Collections”, in: Catalog of Catalogs Online, A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica. Consulted online on 29 May 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004444522_COCO_CC0162>
First published online: 2019



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