Vivian B. Mann, Joseph Gutmann, Sheila Schwartz.

Vivian B. Mann.

New York City, USA, 1980. 142 pp., illustrations: 8 col., 82 b&w, 28 × 21.4 cm. English.

081431662X

Jewish Museum New York (26 March–17 August 1980)

A treasury of personal and communal objects once belonging to the Jews of Danzig. These items were sent from Danzig to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America of New York for safekeeping during the Holocaust, and are now part of the collections of the Jewish Museum of New York. Catalog includes: a preface about the exhibition and its origins (Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson), reflections on the Holocaust (Günter Grass), a short history of Danzig Jewry (Gerson C. Bacon), an essay on the Danzig Treasures (Joseph Gutmann), a biographical essay about the collector Lesser Gieldzinski (Elizabeth Cats), extensive entries for each exhibit (Vivian B. Mann and Joseph Gutmann), and a checklist of items not on exhibit. 134 items.

CEREMONIAL OBJECTS
DANZIG
SYNAGOGUE TEXTILES
SYNAGOGUES
TORAH ORNAMENTS

Amulets
Antisemitic images/objects
Besamim
Book bindings
Bridal/Wedding belts
Candlesticks/Candelabra
Circumcision implements/objects
Circumcision Torah Ark curtains
Etrog containers
Germany
Hanukkah lamps
Hevra Kadisha pitchers/tankards
Historical documents
Historical photographs
Holocaust
Keter Torah
Ketubbot
Kiddush cups
Levite sets
Mezuzah cases
Ner Tamid
Pesach plates
Pidyon ha-Ben plates
Prayerbooks/Mahzors
Portraits
Portraits, rabbis
Prints, Jewish customs & ceremonies
Reader’s desk
Rimmonim
Salom Italia, Esther scroll borders
Scrolls of Esther, engraved borders
Shiviti plaques, metal
Shtenders
Synagogue banners
Synagogues, Danzig
Synagogues, Germany
Tass
Torah (scroll)
Torah Ark curtains
Torah Arks
Torah Arks, fragments
Torah arks, miniature
Torah binders
Torah mantles
Tzedakah boxes/containers
Wedding sofas/stools
Yad

Invitation to exhibition opening in Chicago, 15.8 × 11.5 cm; Exhibition leaflet for showing in Cambridge, Mass., 10 pp., 2 b&w illus., 21.6 × 9 cm; Exhibition leaflet for showing in Berkeley, 8 pp., 4 b&w illus., 22.9 × 10.2 cm; Detailed comments on the catalog by Rafi Grafman, 9 pp.

Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., USA (16 December 1980–5 February 1981); Spertus Museum, Chicago, Ill., USA (15 March–31 May 1981); Harvard Semitic Museum, Cambridge, Mass., USA (5 April–20 June 1982); Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, Germany (5 September–21 November 1982); Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany (2 December 1982–16 January 1983), Paulskirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (30 January–27 February 1983), Galerie “Kultur unterm Turm”, Stuttgart, Germany (16 March–17 April 1983); Beit Hatfutsot, Tel Aviv, Israel (Summer 1983); University of California, University Art Museum, Berkeley, Calif., USA (9 May–8 July 1984)

#699 (Braunschweig); #755 (Tel Aviv)