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

Treasures of Dubrovnik
(141 words)

Curators

Gabriel M. Goldstein, Bonni-Dara Michaels.

Imprint

New York City, USA, 1999. Booklet, 38 pp., illustrations: 20 b&w, 28 × 21.5 cm. English.

ISBN

0945447108

Location

Yeshiva University Museum (May 1994–December 1995)

Description

The catalog was issued four years after the exhibition.

Description

Torah ornaments, synagogue textiles, and other treasures from the Dubrovnik community that were sent to America for safe-keeping during the Yugoslav civil war. Three catalog essays on the Jews of Dubrovnik (Barisa Krekic), the ritual textiles (Désirée Koslin), and an early Torah Scroll from the Dubrovnik Synagogue (Chaim Chernoff). Descriptive entries. 50 items.

main keywords

DUBROVNIK
SYNAGOGUE TEXTILES
TORAH ORNAMENTS

minor keywords

Book bindings
Hanukkah lamps
Historical documents
Keter Torah
Montefiore, Moses
Reader’s desk covers
Rimmonim
Seals/Stamps, community
Synagogue lamps
Tass
Torah Ark curtains
Torah binders
Torah mantles
Torah staves
Yad
Yugoslavia

Related ephemera

Exhibition leaflet with introductory text on the synagogue objects (especially textiles) and the history of the Jews of Dubrovnik, 8 pp., 21.5 × 9 cm.

Cite this page
“Treasures of Dubrovnik”, in: Catalog of Catalogs Online, A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica. Consulted online on 28 May 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004444522_COCO_CC1311>
First published online: 2019



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