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

Die Welt der Jüdischen Postkarten. The World of Jewish Postcards
(175 words)

Curator

Bernhard Purin.

Imprint

Vienna, Austria, 2002. Leaflet, 4 pp., illustrations: 9 col., 21 × 10 cm. German and English.

Location

Jüdisches Museum Wien (30 June–29 September 2002)

Description

Traveling exhibition of 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. Includes images of ceremonial objects. No itemized listing.

main keywords

PHOTOGRAPHS
PORTRAITS
POSTCARDS
SOLDIERS (JEWISH) AND RELATED OBJECTS
SYNAGOGUES
ZIONISM

minor keywords

Cemeteries
Eretz Israel
Germany
Judaica exhibitions, pre-World War II (photographs of)
Junker, Hermann
Lilien, Ephraim M.
Oppenheim, Moritz Daniel
Portraits, rabbis
Shana Tova greeting cards
World War I

Other venue

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

Catalog from other venue

#1657

Related publication

Purin, Bernhard, Die Welt der Jüdischen Postkarten, 2001. Book that accompanied the exhibition, authored by the exhibition’s curator. 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.

Cite this page
“Die Welt der Jüdischen Postkarten. The World of Jewish Postcards”, in: Catalog of Catalogs Online, A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica. Consulted online on 29 March 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004444522_COCO_CC1741>
First published online: 2019



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