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

“A vypravuj synu svému …”: Hagady ve sbírkach Židovského Muzea v Praze. “And you shall tell your son …”: Haggadot in the Collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague
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Authors & Curators

Michal Bušek, Ondrěj Čihák.

Imprint

Prague, Czech Republic, 2010. 70 pp. (incl. 46 pp. illus.), illustrations: 208 col., 21 × 22 cm. Czech and English.

ISBN

9788086889986

Location

Jewish Museum in Prague (25 March–27 June 2010)

Description

Original manuscripts, printed editions and facsimiles of Haggadot from the Museum’s collections. Brief introductory texts on the Haggadah’s message, the holiday of Passover, and the Haggadah and its illustration throughout the ages. Exhibits presented according to geographical region: 1. Prague/Bohemia/Czechoslovakia, 2. Western and Southern Europe (especially Austria and Germany), 3. Israel, 4. United States, 5. Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Basic entries. 264 items.

main keywords

HAGGADOT

minor keywords

Book bindings
Haggadot, illuminated manuscripts
Haggadot, Israeli
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Bohemia-Moravia & Germany, 17th–19th C
Nathan ben Simson of Meseritsch (scribe-artist)
Printed books

Related ephemera

Invitation to exhibition opening, folded card, 1 col. illus., 15 × 10.1 cm; Exhibition leaflet with extensive introductory text, 8 pp., 15 col. illus., 29.8 × 15.2 cm. Czech.

Cite this page
““A vypravuj synu svému …”: Hagady ve sbírkach Židovského Muzea v Praze. “And you shall tell your son …”: Haggadot in the Collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague”, 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_CC2027>
First published online: 2019



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