Sharon Liberman Mintz, Havva Charm, Elka Deitsch.

New York City, USA, 2002. 127 pp., illustrations: 102 col., 22 × 21 cm. English.

0873340892

Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (12 December 2002–31 March 2003)

A catalog issued in conjunction with the exhibition “Culture and Costume: Depictions of Jewish Dress Across Five Centuries”. The publication includes four exhibitions from the Library’s Print Collection that were held between 1999–2003:

1. Sanctuary and Synagogue: The Experience of the Portuguese and Ashkenazic Jews in Amsterdam (12 August–8 December 2002). Amsterdam’s Sephardic and Ashkenazic communities as seen through 17th and 18th-C prints of their respective synagogues. The prints document the structures themselves (exterior and interior), as well as the customs and ceremonies they housed. Introductory text. Detailed descriptive entries. 19 items.

2. Visions of Glory: Engraved Portraits of Jewish Personalities, 1600–1900 (14 March–20 August 1999). Portraits of religious, political, theatrical and various other personalities. Introductory text. Detailed descriptive entries. 23 items. [#1574]

3. From Eve to Esther: Images of Women in Biblical Prints (24 August–17 December 1999). European and American prints and drawings, 16th–19th C, showing women of the Bible. Introductory text. 23 items. [#1263]

4. Culture and Costume: Depictions of Jewish Dress Across Five Centuries (12 December 2002–31 March 2003). 15th–19th-C prints that show how travelers and artists represented Jewish modes of dress and ways of life. Detailed descriptive entries. 30 items. [#1724, #1870]

AMSTERDAM
BIBLICAL IMAGES
COSTUME
CUSTOMS & CEREMONIES
PORTRAITS
PORTRAITS, RABBIS
PRINTS
SYNAGOGUES
WOMEN

Europe
Netherlands
North Africa
Ottoman Empire
Prints, biblical images
Prints, costume
Prints, Jewish customs & ceremonies
Prints, women
Prints, synagogues