Bob Marten, Herbert Peter, Danielle Spera, Werner Hanak-Lettner.

Bob Marten, Herbert Peter.

Danielle Spera, Werner Hanak-Lettner.

Vienna, Austria, 2016. 157 pp., illustrations: 133 col., 94 b&w, 24 × 21 cm. German & English.

9783993002664

Jüdisches Museum Wien (19 May–17 November 2016)

Virtual reconstructions, models, plans and photographs presenting and commemorating the nearly one-hundred synagogues and prayer houses that existed in Vienna before the Holocaust, all but one of which was destroyed during Kristallnacht. Introductory text by Danielle Spera, followed by in-depth essays on the synagogues, their Torah ornaments (Gabriele Kohlbauer-Fritz), images on postcards, individual architects and locations, planning and demolition, architectural styles & decorative elements, building restrictions, destruction, “Aryanization”, commemoration, virtual reconstructions, etc. No itemized listing.

ARCHITECTS
KRISTALLNACHT
PHOTOGRAPHS
POSTCARDS
SYNAGOGUES
SYNAGOGUES, ARCHITECTURE
SYNAGOGUES, MODELS/RECONSTRUCTIONS
TORAH ORNAMENTS
VIENNA

Drawings/Sketches
Fleischer, Max
Förster, Ludwig Christian
Gartner, Jakob
Historical documents
Historical photographs
Katscher, Maximillian
Keter Torah
König, Carl
Paintings, synagogues
Prints, synagogues
Reiser, Ignaz N.
Rimmonim
Schön, Friedrich
Schöne, Ludwig
Shana Tova greeting cards
Stiassny, Wilhelm
Synagogue lamps
Synagogue organs
Synagogues, architectural plans
Synagogues, Austria
Synagogues, documentation of
Synagogues, Vienna
Tankards/Jugs
Tass
Torah Ark curtains
Yad

Exhibition leaflet, 6 pp., 9 col., 19 b&w illus., 21 × 10 cm.