Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Gabriele Kohlbauer-Fritz, Gerhard Milchram.

Vienna, Austria, 2010. 196 pp., illustrations: 117 col., 12 b&w, 31 × 22.8 cm. German.

Jüdisches Museum Wien (12 May–31 October 2010)

The establishment of the Turkish-Jewish community in Vienna in the early 18th C, the historical circumstances that led to it, and the impact this new community had on the rest of Sephardic Diaspora Jewry. Introductory essay. Catalog of exhibits presents objects from both the Viennese Sephardic community as well as other Sephardic Diaspora communities (in Italy, Northwest Europe, the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans) for whom these Turkish Jews served as cultural, financial and religious mediators between East and West. Detailed historical entries. 89 items.

CEREMONIAL OBJECTS
HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
PORTRAITS
PRINTED BOOKS
SEPHARDIC JEWS
TORAH ORNAMENTS
SYNAGOGUE TEXTILES
TURKEY
VIENNA

Balkans
Book bindings
Clocks/Watches
Coats of Arms
Haggadot
Hanukkah lamps
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Turkey
Historical photographs
Italy
Keter Torah
Ketubbot
Medals
Music
Portraits, rabbis
Postcards
Prayers for the sovereign
Prints, Jewish customs & ceremonies
Rimmonim
Scrolls of Esther, cases
Shabbetai Tsvi
Soldiers (Jewish) & related objects
Synagogues, Austria
Synagogues, Vienna
Talit
Tass
Torah Ark curtains
Torah Arks
Torah mantles
Torah staves

Exhibition leaflet, 6 pp., 8 col., 2 b&w illus., 21 × 10.5 cm. German and English; Invitation to exhibition opening, single card, 18 × 13 cm. German and Turkish; Program of events related to the exhibition, booklet, 24 pp. 18 × 13 cm. German and Turkish.

Jüdisches Museum Hohenems, Austria (5 April–2 October 2011)