Werner Hanak.

Gross Family Collection.

Vienna, Austria, 1999. 200 pp., illustrations: 52 col., 19 b&w, 28 × 22 cm. German.

385452434X

Jüdisches Museum Wien (24 November 1999–20 February 2000)

Jewish aspirations for the future, and how they have been envisioned throughout history. Essays on the Arab-Israeli conflict (David Grossman, written in 1993), contemporary American-Jewish artists and tradition (Marcia Reines Josephy), and Messianism (Kurt Schubert). Exhibits were presented in 6 categories, including the calendrical cycle, life and death, utopia and makom, prophets, and messiahs and messianism, each with numerous sub-topics. Detailed descriptive entries. 45 items.

JEWISH ARTISTS
MESSIAH/MESSIANISM
ZIONISM

Amulets
Archaeological finds
Bags of earth from the Holy Land
Calendars
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Ashkenaz, 12th–14th C
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Bohemia-Moravia & Germany, 17th–19th C
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Corfu
Hevra Kadisha illuminated manuscripts
Hevra Kadisha utensils
Historical photographs
Matzah covers/bags
Natan of Gaza
Ossuaries/Sarcophagi
Painters, Jewish
Pesach plates
Prints, biblical images
Prints, Jewish figures
Salom Italia
Sepphoris (Tzippori)
Shabbetai Tsvi
Shana Tova greeting cards
Synagogues, ancient, Eretz Israel
Torah Ark curtains
Torah binders
Video installations

Exhibition leaflet, 6 pp., 5 col., 2 b&w illus., 21 × 9.8 cm; Invitation to exhibition opening, 2 col. illus., 21 × 9.8 cm; Promotional card for the exhibition “Das Mosaik der Synagoge von Sepphoris” [#1593], shown in the museum at the same time as the current exhibition, 2 pp., 1 col. illus., 21 × 9.8 cm. German and English