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

Jewish Art Treasures from Prague. The State Jewish Museum and its Collections
(168 words)

Editor

C.R. Dodwell.

Collection

Jewish Museum in Prague.

Imprint

Manchester, United Kingdom, 1980. 144 pp., 8 pp. (illus.), illustrations: 10 col., 115 b&w, 23.4 × 22.5 cm. English.

ISBN

0903261162

Location

University of Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery (7 October–16 December 1980)

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.

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

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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“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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