Jørgen H. Barfod, Norman L. Kleeblatt, Vivian B. Mann.

New York City, USA, 1983. vii, 96 pp.; iv, 32 pp., illustrations: vol. 1: 11 col., 55 b&w; vol. 2: 12 col., 21 b&w, 20.3 × 20.3 cm. English.

0873340221

Jewish Museum New York (23 October 1983–20 February 1984)

Detailed study of Danish Jewish history, in commemoration the 40th anniversary of the Danish effort to smuggle 7000 Jews out of Denmark. Catalog in two volumes. Volume 1 with an introduction by Norman L. Kleeblatt and Vivian B. Mann, essays on The History of the Jews in Denmark, 1622–1940 (Hanne Trautner-Kromann), The Occupation of Denmark (Jørgen H. Barfod), and the Jews’ Escape (Herbert Pundik), and detailed descriptions of Judaica, Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Documents (Susan Braunstein, Anita Friedman, and Irene Schenk). Volume 2 focuses on manuscripts and printed books, with an essay on the Royal Library’s Judaica and Hebraica, and individual catalog entries (both by Ulf Haxen). 89 items (vol. 1); 29 items (vol. 2).

CEREMONIAL OBJECTS
DENMARK
HEBREW ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
PORTRAITS
PRINTED BOOKS
PRINTS
ROYAL LIBRARY, COPENHAGEN
TORAH ORNAMENTS

Book bindings
Circumcision garments
Circumcision implements/objects
Circumcision Torah Ark curtains
Coins
Evronot
Haggadot, illuminated manuscripts
Hanukkah lamps
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Ashkenaz, 12th–14th C
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Bibles
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Bohemia-Moravia & Germany, 17th–19th C
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Italy, 15th C
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Spain, 12th–14th C
Hevra Kadisha illuminated manuscripts
Holocaust
Keter Torah
Ketubbot
Kiddush cups
Maimonides
Meshal ha-Kadmoni
Minhagim books
Pesach plates
Prayerbooks/Mahzors
Prints, costume
Scrolls of Esther, engraved borders
Synagogues, Denmark
Tass
Torah Ark curtains
Torah binders
Torah mantles
Yad

Invitation to exhibition preview in Chicago, leaflet, 2 pp., cover illus., 18.8 × 12.8 cm.

Spertus Museum, Chicago, Ill., USA (opening: March 1984)