Bernhard Purin.

Fürth, Germany, 2001. Leaflet, 8 pp., illustrations: 9 b&w, 21 × 10.5 cm. German.

3854981449

Jüdisches Museum Franken, Fürth und Schnaittach (17 October 2001–2 March 2002)

Jewish postcards from the turn of the 20th C showing a variety of topics: synagogues, Jewish customs, portraits of famous personalities, cards sent from the Front by Jewish soldiers during the First World War, and Zionist themes. Images of antique Judaica are featured in a section of postcards showing individual objects, synagogue museums, and early-20th-century Judaica exhibition halls (including those of the Jewish Museum Prague, the Musée de Cluny, the Musée Alsacien, the Hungarian State Jewish Museum, etc.). No itemized listing.

CEREMONIAL OBJECTS
JUDAICA EXHIBITIONS, PRE-WORLD WAR II (PHOTOGRAPHS OF)
PHOTOGRAPHS
PORTRAITS
POSTCARDS
SOLDIERS (JEWISH) AND RELATED OBJECTS
SYNAGOGUES
ZIONISM

Cemeteries
Eretz Israel
Germany
Junker, Hermann
Lilien, Ephraim M.
Oppenheim, Moritz Daniel
Portraits, rabbis
Shana Tova greeting cards
Synagogues
World War I

Jüdisches Museum Wien, Austria (30 June–29 September 2002)

#1741

Purin, Bernhard, Die Welt der Jüdischen Postkarten, 2001. Book that accompanied the exhibition. Mostly pictorial, with short introductory texts on each of the seven divisions: Jewish holidays, Jewish life, Synagogues, Portraits, Jewish antiquities (including images of early Judaica exhibition spaces), Jewish soldiers and Eretz Israel.