Jewish Art Treasures from Prague. The State Jewish Museum and its Collections(168 words)
Editor |
C.R. Dodwell.
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Collection |
Jewish Museum in Prague.
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Imprint |
Manchester, United Kingdom, 1980. 144 pp., 8 pp. (illus.), illustrations: 10 col., 115 b&w, 23.4 × 22.5 cm. English.
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ISBN |
0903261162
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Location |
University of Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery (7 October–16 December 1980)
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Description |
Presentation of the main categories of the Museum’s collection: historic monuments, material from the Terezín concentration camp, synagogue textiles, synagogue silver and other metalwork, early printed books and manuscripts, and material related to the Prague Burial Brotherhood. Historical introduction by C.R. Dodwell. Detailed introduction to each category. Full descriptive entries. 292 items.
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main keywords |
CEREMONIAL OBJECTS CZECH REPUBLIC HEBREW ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, BOHEMIA-MORAVIA & GERMANY, 17th–19th C HEVRA KADISHA HOLOCAUST ART PRINTED BOOKS SYNAGOGUE TEXTILES TEREZÍN TORAH ORNAMENTS
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minor keywords |
Besamim Book bindings Challah covers Circumcision implements/objects Etrog containers Haggadot, illuminated manuscripts Hanukkah lamps Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Ashkenaz, 12th–14th C Hevra Kadisha painted panels Hevra Kadisha member portraits Hevra Kadisha pitchers/tankards Hevra Kadisha tzedakah boxes Hevra Kadisha utensils Historical photographs Holocaust Keter Torah Kiddush cups Levite sets Mezuzah cases Nathan ben Simson of Meseritsch (scribe-artist) Pesach plates Prague Rimmonim Scrolls of Esther, cases Shabbat lamps Synagogues, Czech Republic Tass Torah Ark curtains Torah Ark valances Torah Arks Torah binders Torah mantles Tzedakah boxes/containers Wedding plates Yad
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Cite this page
“Jewish Art Treasures from Prague. The State Jewish Museum and its Collections”, in:
Catalog of Catalogs Online, A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica.
Consulted online on 02 June 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004444522_COCO_CC0643>
First published online: 2019
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