Textiles from Bohemian and Moravian Synagogues
Author: Židovské muzeum v Praze
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 386
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Author: Židovské muzeum v Praze
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 386
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Li︠u︡dmila Kibalova
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9788085608601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bracha Yaniv
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2019-03-14
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 178962505X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA richly illustrated and documented survey of the evolution of synagogue textiles spanning fifteen centuries, offering a detailed analysis of the design and production of mantles, wrappers, Torah scroll binders, and the Torah ark curtain and valance, including the text of inscriptions marking the circumstances of donation.
Author: Raphael Patai
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-03-26
Total Pages: 1641
ISBN-13: 1317471709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis multicultural reference work on Jewish folklore, legends, customs, and other elements of folklife is the first of its kind.
Author: Barry L. Stiefel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 131732031X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore the mid-fifteenth century, the Christian and Islamic governments of Europe had restricted the architecture and design of synagogues and often prevented Jews from becoming architects. Stiefel presents a study of the material culture and religious architecture that this era produced.
Author: Richard I. Cohen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780520917910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. In these images and objects that reflect, refract, and also shape daily experience, he finds new and illuminating insights into Jewish life in the modern period. Pointing to recent scholarship that overturns the stereotype of Jews as people of the text, unconcerned with the visual, Cohen shows how the coming of the modern period expanded the relationship of Jews to the visual realm far beyond the religious context. In one such manifestation, orthodox Jewry made icons of popular tabbis, creating images that helped to bridge the sacred and the secular. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the study and collecting of Jewish art became a legitimate and even passionate pursuit, and signaled the entry of Jews into the art world as painters, collectors, and dealers. Cohen's exploration of early Jewish exhibitions, museums, and museology opens a new window on the relationship of art to Jewish culture and society.
Author: Hillel J. Kieval
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2021-08-06
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0812253116
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A comprehensive history of the Jews of the Bohemian Lands whose goal is to narrate and analyze the Jewish experience in the Bohemian Lands as an integral and inseparable part of the development of Central Europe and its peoples from the sixteenth century to the present day"--
Author: Rachel L. Greenblatt
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2014-02-26
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0804788812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers an examination of Jewish communal memory in Prague in the century and a half stretching from its position as cosmopolitan capital of the Holy Roman Empire (1583-1611) through Catholic reform and triumphalism in the later seventeenth century, to the eve of its encounter with Enlightenment in the early eighteenth. Rachel Greenblatt approaches the subject through the lens of the community's own stories—stories recovered from close readings of a wide range of documents as well as from gravestones and other treasured objects in which Prague's Jews recorded their history. On the basis of this material, Greenblatt shows how members of this community sought to preserve for future generations their memories of others within the community and the events that they experienced. Throughout, the author seeks to go beyond the debates inspired by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi's influential Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory, often regarded as the seminal work in the field of Jewish communal memory, by focusing not on whether Jews in a pre-modern community had a historical consciousness, but rather on the ways in which they perceived and preserved their history. In doing this, Greenblatt opens a window onto the roles that local traditions, aesthetic sensibilities, gender, social hierarchies, and political and financial pressures played in the construction of local memories.
Author: Jana Vytrhlik
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrecious Legacy presents an insight into a rare and extraordinary collection of historic Jewish artefacts and artworks from 1587 to the 1940s. It celebrates the oldest continuous Jewish community in Europe which flourished at the crossroads of East and West in the country we know as the Czech Republic.