Małgorzata Stolarska-Fronia

Warsaw, Poland, 2017. 255 pp. illustrations: 48 col., 23 × 22.5 cm. Polish and English.

9788394426286

Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN (13 October 2017–29 January 2018)

A new version of the Jewish Museum London’s exhibition “Blood: Uniting and Dividing” (#2203), dedicated to the meaning of blood in Jewish culture. This Polish edition further developed the threads which emerged in the London showing, enriching them with new ideas and objects. Contemporary artworks were interspersed with the narrative, which included sections on circumcision, mikvah, ritual slaughtering, and others. Nine new catalog essays on Ritual and Belief, Jewish Blood—Christian Blood (including blood libel), “Jews, Race and Racism in Interwar Poland” (Olga Linkiewicz), Medicine and Genetics, and Identity. Detailed entries. No itemized listing.

BLOOD
CEREMONIAL OBJECTS

Antisemitic images/objects
Chagall, Marc
Christian Art
Circumcision cups
Circumcision implements/objects
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Ashkenaz, 12th–14th C
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Spain, 12th–14th C
Holocaust
Medicine
Mikvah
Pesach plates
Printed books
Prints, biblical images
Prints, Jewish customs & ceremonies
Seals/Stamps, kosher certification
Shechita knives
Torah Ark curtains

#2203

Invitation to exhibition opening, folded card with blood-collection tube, 20 × 11.2 cm.