Guido Schoenberger, Tom L. Freudenheim.

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Zagayski.

New York City, USA, 1963. 36 pp., illustrations: 46 b&w, 21 × 24 cm. English.

Jewish Museum New York (18 February–1 May 1963)

The Jewish Museum’s second exhibition and catalog of Zagayski’s second, superb collection (the first having been confiscated by the Nazis in 1939). Predominantly ceremonial objects and Torah ornaments. Text by Guido Schoenberger and Tom L. Freudenheim. Introduction by Alan R. Solomon. Scholarly descriptions. 252 items.

For the Museum’s first exhibition of the Zagayski Collection see #125 (1951).

The Zagayski Collection was sold at auction the following year. Several of its objects were purchased by the Jewish Museum New York.

CEREMONIAL OBJECTS
SYNAGOGUE TEXTILES
TORAH ORNAMENTS

Amulets
Besamim
Book bindings
Bridal/Wedding belts
Circumcision garments
Circumcision implements/objects
Etrog containers
Haggadot, illuminated manuscripts
Hand-washing vessels
Hanukkah lamps
Havdalah candleholders
Havdalah sets/compendia
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Bohemia-Moravia & Germany, 17th–19th C
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Italy, 17th–19th C
Keter Torah
Ketubbot
Kiddush cups
Levite sets
Matzah covers/bags
Mizrach
Pesach plates
Pesach tablecloths/cloths
Pidyon ha-Ben plates
Porcelain figurines
Prints, synagogues
Reader’s desk covers
Rimmonim
Salom Italia, Esther scroll borders
Scrolls of Esther, cases
Scrolls of Esther, engraved borders
Scrolls of Esther, illuminated
Shabbat lamps
Shabbat rings
Sukkah decorations
Tass
Tefillin bags
Tile decorations
Tobacco/Snuff boxes
Torah Ark curtains
Torah Ark valances
Torah binders
Torah mantles
Tzedakah boxes/containers
Wedding cups
Wedding poems, riddles & songs
Wedding rings
Yad
Yom Kippur belt buckles