Orphan Objects. Facets of the Textiles Collection of the Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam

Editor	Daniel M. Swetschinski.
Co-editors	Julie-Marthe Cohen, Stephen Hartog.
Imprint	Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1997. 248 pp., illustrations: 164 col., 1 b&w, 28 × 23 cm. English.
ISBN	9040099537
Location	Joods Historisch Museum (18 April–19 October 1997)
Description	The history and significance of the Museum’s textile collection. Introduction presents several Dutch intellectuals’ opinions on the purpose of a Jewish museum. Highlights from this collection presented in five chapters (each with sub-sections), suggesting various angles from which these objects may be viewed: time and objects, religious devotion and artistic objects, the making of the objects, the objects in society, and the objects in history. Detailed descriptive entries. 136 items.
main keywords	SYNAGOGUE TEXTILES TEXTILES
minor keywords	Challah covers Chuppah Circumcision cloths Circumcision Torah mantles Dolls/Puppets Etrog containers Flags, societies/institutions Head coverings, men’s Matzah covers/bags Mizrach Pesach pillow covers Pesach tablecloths/cloths Pesach towel covers Reader’s desk covers Samplers (needlework) Talit Tapestries Tefillin bags Torah (scroll) Torah Ark curtains Torah Ark valances Torah binders Torah mantles
Related ephemera	Invitation to exhibition opening, leaflet, 6 pp., 4 col. illus., 21 × 15 cm; Joods Historisch Museum Newspaper, no. 10, April–November 1997, with cover story on the exhibition, 12 pp., 41.5 × 29 cm.

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