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

Sacred Silences. Photographs of Jewish Prague by Bernis von zur Muehlen
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Author & Curator

Ori Z. Soltes.

Imprint

Washington, D.C., USA, 1992. Booklet, 16 pp., illustrations: 6 b&w, 19 × 28 cm. English.

Location

B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum (4 September–8 December 1992)

Description

The old Jewish cemetery in Prague and its 20,000 tombstones, laden with symbols, family crests, and indicators of profession. Two brief essays on the von zur Muehlen’s artistic photographs of the cemetery (Ori Z. Soltes) and on Josefov, Prague’s old Jewish Quarter (von zur Muehlen). No itemized listing.

main keywords

CEMETERIES
PHOTOGRAPHS
PRAGUE
TOMBSTONES
VON ZUR MUEHLEN, BERNIS

minor keywords

Cemeteries, Prague
Cemeteries, Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Tombstones, Czech Republic
Tombstones, Prague

Cite this page
“Sacred Silences. Photographs of Jewish Prague by Bernis von zur Muehlen”, in: Catalog of Catalogs Online, A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica. Consulted online on 25 March 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004444522_COCO_CC1229>
First published online: 2019



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