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

Buch der Erinnerung. Das Wiener Memorbuch der Fürther Klaus-Synagoge
(189 words)

Translated titleBook of Remembrance. The Vienna Memorbuch of the Klaus-Synagogue in Fürth
Editor

Bernhard Purin.

Curator

Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek.

Imprint

Vienna, Austria, 1999. 60 pp., illustrations: 10 col., 6 b&w, 30 × 17 cm. German, with English summary.

ISBN

3980538869

Location

Jüdisches Museum Wien (20 January–7 March 1999)

Description

The creation, fate, and rediscovery of an early-17th-C memor book thought to have been destroyed during Kristallnacht but discovered in 1998 by a second-hand book dealer in Fürth when cleaning the apartment of a couple who moved into a home for the elderly. The memor book had been brought to Fürth from Vienna in 1670, where it was preserved in the Klaus Synagogue and updated until 1932. The synagogue was destroyed on Kristallnacht in 1938. Three essays on: the memor book in general (Magnus Weinberg, originally published in 1926), memor books as milieux de memoire (Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek), and the Vienna Memorbuch of the Klaus-Synagogue (Bernhard Purin). No itemized listing.

main keywords

FÜRTH
KLAUS-SYNAGOGUE
MEMOR BOOKS
SYNAGOGUES
VIENNA

minor keywords

Austria
Germany
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Bohemia-Moravia & Germany, 17th–19th C

Related ephemera

Exhibition leaflet with introductory text, 6 pp., 5 col. illus., 21 × 10 cm. German & English.

Cite this page
“Buch der Erinnerung. Das Wiener Memorbuch der Fürther Klaus-Synagoge”, in: Catalog of Catalogs Online, A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica. Consulted online on 08 June 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004444522_COCO_CC1590>
First published online: 2019



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