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

Breslauer Juden 1850–1945. Katalog zur Ausstellung
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Translated titleThe Jews of Breslau 1850–1945. Catalog for the Exhibition
Editor

Josef Joachim Menzel.

Curator

Maciej Łagiewski.

Imprint

Mainz, Germany, 1990. 167 pp., illustrations: 65 b&w, 20 × 21 cm. German.

Location

Rathaus Mainz (13 December 1990–13 January 1991)

Description

A traveling photographic exhibit from Poland on various aspects of Breslau (Wrocław) Jewry. Introductions to the Jews of Breslau and Silesia (Michael Rüdiger Gerber) and to the exhibition (Maciej Łagiewski). The catalog reproduces the 64 exhibition panels, which contain several hundred individually-captioned photographs. Includes material on Breslau’s synagogues, cemetery and Jewish museum. 331 items.

Description

The exhibition was first presented in 1989, under the name “Wrocławscy Żydzi 1850–1945”.

main keywords

CEMETERIES
CEREMONIAL OBJECTS
PHOTOGRAPHS
PORTRAITS
SYNAGOGUE TEXTILES
SYNAGOGUES
TORAH ORNAMENTS
WROCŁAW (BRESLAU)

minor keywords

Antisemitic images/objects
Besamim
Cemeteries, Poland
Cemeteries, Wrocław (Breslau)
Elijah’s chair
Elijah’s cup
Etrog containers
Hanukkah lamps
Havdalah candleholders
Historical photographs
Holocaust
Jüdisches Museum, Wrocław (Breslau)
Keter Torah
Kiddush cups
Kristallnacht
Poland
Rimmonim
Silesia
Sukkah
Synagogues, Poland
Synagogues, Wrocław (Breslau)
Tass
Torah (scroll)
Torah Ark curtains
Torah mantles

Other venues

Muzeum Architektury, Wrocław, Poland (March 1989); Rathaus Wiesbaden, Germany (18 January–24 February 1991); Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart, Germany (11 March–12 April 1991); Jüdisches Kulturmuseum Augsburg-Schwaben, Germany (27 September–30 October 1991)

Catalog from other venue

#1333 (Wrocław)

Related publication

Kühnel, Horst, Juden in Breslau 1850–1945. Beiträge zu einer Ausstellung, 1993. Three speeches given at the exhibition’s opening in Augsburg, and three historical essays on the Jews of Wrocław (Breslau) and Silesia by Josef Joachim Menzel, Maciej Łagiewski, and Michael Berg.

Cite this page
“Breslauer Juden 1850–1945. Katalog zur Ausstellung”, 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_CC1102>
First published online: 2019



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