Hans-Juergen Beck.

Peter Weidisch.

Bad Kissingen, Germany, 2004. 101 pp., illustrations: 113 (b&w/col.), 30 × 21.4 cm. German.

ISBN-10 3934912060

Bismarck-Museum Bad Kissingen (10 November 2004–31 January 2005)

The beliefs, customs and religious material culture of Franconia’s Jews. Detailed room-by-room description of the exhibition and its themes, each with extensive explanatory texts: 1. Aspects of Jewish Life, 2. Holidays, 3. Shabbat, 4. Life Cycle, 5. Torah and Prayer, 6. Synagogue and Torah, 7. Costume/Passover. Includes discussion of the more than 1500 medieval Jewish tombstones discovered in Würzburg in 1987. Basic and descriptive entries. 220 items.

CEMETERIES
CEREMONIAL OBJECTS
FRANCONIA
PHOTOGRAPHS
SYNAGOGUES
TOMBSTONES, MEDIEVAL
TOMBSTONES, WÜRZBURG
TORAH ORNAMENTS
WÜRZBURG

Amulets
Besamim
Cemeteries, Franconia
Cemeteries, Germany
Chuppah stone
Etrog containers
Fechenbach, Hermann
Germany
Haggadot
Hanukkah lamps
Havdalah plates
Head coverings, men’s
Head coverings, women’s
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Ashkenaz, 12th–14th C
Hevra Kadisha painted panels
Historical photographs
Ketubbot
Kiddush cups
Levite sets
Mezuzah cases
Mizrach
Omer calendars
Paintings, Jewish customs & ceremonies
Papercuts
Prints, Jewish customs & ceremonies
Prints, synagogues
Purim groggers
Purim plates
Reader’s desk covers
Rimmonim
Sukkah decorations
Synagogues, Franconia
Synagogues, Germany
Synagogues, wooden
Tass
Tombstones, Germany
Torah Arks
Torah Arks, fragments
Torah binders
Tsena u-Rena
Wedding rings
Yad
Yom Kippur at Metz wall hanging

Exhibition leaflet, 4 pp., 9 col. illus., 21 × 10 cm.