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

“Jewish Nursery”. Museification of Religion for Upbringing of the Nation
(215 words)

Author

Alexander Lvov.

Collection

Museum of Petersburg, Jewish Historical-Ethnographic Society

Imprint

St. Petersburg, Russia, 2005. Booklet, 34 pp., illustrations: 40 b&w, 22.5 × 24 cm. English.

Location

Photo-archive of An-sky’s expeditions. Photographs of S. Yudovin. [vol.] III

Description

European University at St. Petersburg, “Petersburg Judaica” Center (20 October–20 December 2005)

Description

Yudovin’s photographs of Eastern European Jewish children. The images were taken on Yudovin’s first ethnographic expedition with An-sky (1912), who used them to promote his vision of a “Jewish nursery”—an institution that would bring the best of shtetl child-rearing to the Jewish intelligentsia. Ceremonial objects and Torah ornaments featured in two photographs: one of synagogue silver (no. 21), the other from an exhibition of ritual objects collected by An-sky during his expeditions (no. 22). Photographs with brief captions. 27 items.

Description

This was the third in a series of exhibitions that endeavored to show, through archival photographs from the Museum of Petersburg Jewish Historical-Ethnographic Society (kept in the archives of the “Petersburg Judaica” Center), the world of the shtetl on the eve of its destruction. For the other 3 exhibitions in this series, see: #1850, #1851, and #1913.

main keywords

AN-SKY (SHLOYME RAPOPORT)
CEREMONIAL OBJECTS
EASTERN EUROPE
PHOTOGRAPHS
SHTETLS
YUDOVIN, SOLOMON
TORAH ORNAMENTS

minor keywords

Besamim
Candlesticks/Candelabra
Hand-washing vessels
Hanukkah lamps
Historical photographs
Judaica exhibitions, pre-World War II (photographs of)
Keter Torah
Kiddush cups
Russia/Soviet Union
Tass
Tombstones, cutters/engravers
Ukraine

Cite this page
““Jewish Nursery”. Museification of Religion for Upbringing of the Nation”, in: Catalog of Catalogs Online, A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica. Consulted online on 05 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004444522_COCO_CC1852>
First published online: 2019



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