Katia Guth-Dreyfus, Eve-M. Hoffmann.

Charlotte Berger.

Theo Gantner, Katharina Eder Matt.

Basel, Switzerland, 1992. 88 pp., illustrations: 8 col., 178 b&w, 21 × 21 cm. German, with one essay in French.

Schweizerisches Museum für Volkskunde (26 November 1992–15 August 1993)

Alsatian Jewish ceremonial objects. Introduction to the Jewish Museum of Switzerland, and its relationship to the current exhibition (Katia Guth-Dreyfus). Four catalog essays describe the Jewish collection of the Musée Alsacien (Malou Schneider, in French), Alsatian Jews in the 19th C (Daniel Gerson), the cattle dealer as a symbol of Alsatian Jews (Freddy Raphaël), and a transcription/translation of an 1848 letter by Seligmann Brunschwig describing the pogrom “Judenrumpel” (Astrid Starck). Objects grouped into 7 categories, each with introductory text: house, life cycle, Shabbat, synagogue, holidays, caricatures, and history. Basic listing. 187 items.

ALSACE
CEREMONIAL OBJECTS
FRANCE
SYNAGOGUE TEXTILES
SYNAGOGUES
TORAH ORNAMENTS

Amulets
Besamim
Circumcision implements/objects
Elijah’s chair
Eruv containers
Haggadot, illuminated manuscripts
Halitza shoe
Hanukkah lamps
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Alsace
Historical documents
Kiddush cups
Mezuzah cases
Mizrach
Papercuts
Pesach plates
Portraits, rabbis
Prints, biblical images
Purim groggers
Purim plates
Rabbis, garments
Scrolls of Esther, illuminated
Seals/Stamps, kosher certification
Seals/Stamps, personal
Shabbat lamps
Shabbat plates
Shtenders
Simchat Torah crowns
Sukkah decorations
Synagogues, Alsace
Synagogues, France
Synagogues, inscriptions from
Tass
Tombstones, Alsace
Torah Ark curtains
Torah Ark valances
Torah binders
Torah mantles
Tzedakah boxes/containers
Wedding rings
Yad

Supplements and corrections for the catalog, 3 pp., 29.5 × 21 cm; Exhibition texts, extracted from Daniel Stauben’s Scènes de la Vie Juive en Alsace (Paris 1860), 10 pp., 29.5 × 21 cm.