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

Treasures of Jewish Galicia. Judaica from the Museum of Ethnography and Crafts in Lvov, Ukraine
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Editor & Curator

Sarah Harel-Hoshen.

Collection

Museum of Ethnography and Crafts, Lvov.

Imprint

Tel Aviv, Israel, 1995. 195 pp., illustrations: 24 col., 112 b&w, 28.7 × 21.5 cm. English.

ISBN

9654250047

Location

Beit Hatfutsot (July 1994–January 1995)

Description

A second, expanded catalog for this exhibition on the life and history of Galician Jewry, viewed through the pre-World War II collections of Maksymilian Goldstein and the Lvov Jewish Community Museum. Ten in-depth essays on Galician Jewish history (Israel Bartal), the region’s synagogues (Sergei R. Kravtsov), the research and collection of Judaica in Lvov (Sarah Harel-Hoshen), the Jewish Art Collection of the Museum of Ethnography and Crafts in Lvov (Faina S. Petriakova), synagogue implements and Torah decorations (Chaya Benjamin), ceremonial textiles for the synagogue (Bracha Yaniv), carved wooden lecterns and Torah pointers (Zussia Efron), domestic ceremonial objects (Chaya Benjamin), domestic wall decorations and papercuts (Shalom Sabar), and schpanyer arbet (Esther Juhasz). Descriptive entries. 215 items.

main keywords

CEREMONIAL OBJECTS
COSTUME
GALICIA
GOLDSTEIN, MAKSYMILIAN
PAPERCUTS
SCHPANYER ARBET
SHTENDERS
SYNAGOGUE TEXTILES
SYNAGOGUES
TORAH ORNAMENTS
YAD

minor keywords

Amulets
Besamim
Bezalel Art School
Bohemian glass
Bread, festive
Brusttichl
Candlesticks/Candelabra
Etrog containers
Ex Libris
Faience ware
Hand-washing vessels
Hanukkah lamps
Hanukkah lamps, synagogue
Head coverings, men’s
Historical photographs
Keter Torah
Kiddush cups
Lilien, Ephraim M.
Lvov
Jewish Community Museum, Lvov
Mezuzah cases
Mizrach
Pesach plates
Pesach plates, 3-tiered
Pidyon ha-Ben plates
Posters
Purim plates
Shabbat lamps
Shavuot papercuts
Sterntichl
Synagogue lamps
Synagogues, Galicia
Synagogues, Ukraine
Talit neckband
Tass
Tefillin cases
Torah Ark curtains
Torah Ark valances
Torah mantles
Ukraine
Wall sconces
Wedding breads/pastries
Wedding rings
Yom Kippur belt buckles

Related ephemera

Catalog order form, 29.5 × 21 cm.

Other venue

Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa, Cracow, Poland (July–October 1993)

Catalog from other venue

#1244

Other edition

original, Hebrew edition, 1994 [#1321]

Cite this page
“Treasures of Jewish Galicia. Judaica from the Museum of Ethnography and Crafts in Lvov, Ukraine”, in: Catalog of Catalogs Online, A Bibliography of Temporary Exhibition Catalogs Since 1876 that Contain Items of Judaica. Consulted online on 28 September 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004444522_COCO_CC1322>
First published online: 2019



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