The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures From the Czechoslovak State Collections

Langue : anglais

Edité par Summit Books; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, New York and Washington D.C., 1983

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288 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. A catalogue for the traveling museum exhibition of Judaic objects from the State Jewish Museum in Prague. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** Judaica from the 16th-19th centuries, most of Czech and German manufacture (Bohemia and Moravia): Torah scrolls, furniture, lights, lamps, etc., including photographs of the Jewish community in Prague up to the Holocaust. *** "The collection of the Czechoslovak State Jewish Museum in Prague is a unique respository of historic artifacts, artistic rarities, and cultural memories. These objects document the vitality and significance of Czech Jewry, which has flourished for a millennium at the crossroads of East and West and is the oldest continuous Jewish community in Europe. One hundred fifty-three local Jewish communities in Bohemia and Moravia were devastated during the Holocaust, and thus the Prague Museum bears eloquent testimony to a world virtually snuffed out just one generation ago. This book brings to American audiences their first glimpse of this extraordinary collection of Judaica in conjunction with an exhibition that is touring our nation's major museums under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. The unparalleled size and scope of the Prague collection-- some 140,000 treasures in all-- derive from an ironic twist of fate. From 1942 to 1945, the Nazis confiscated Jewish possessions of artistic and historical value throughout Bohemia and Moravia, and while the Jews of these lands were deported to captivity and death, these artifacts were shipped to Prague. There the Nazis intended to establish a "museum to an extinct race," a pathological "research" and propaganda "institute" that would justify to the world the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question." While nearly all of European Jewry vanished during the Holocaust, Prague was spared from wartime destruction, as was the collection of Judaica that by war's end filled eight historic Jewish sites and more than fifty warehouses throughout the city. Teams of distinguished scholars from the United States and Czechoslovakia participated in the research and writing of this text, which includes studies of the historic and religious legacy of Czech Jewry as well as a catalogue of the landmark exhibition "The Precious Legacy." The volume is magnificently designed, depicting beautiful textiles, oil paintings, glassware, porcelain, precious metals, printed books and illuminated manuscripts in 75 full-color and 150 black-and-white illustrations. These photographs and essays together bear witness to the continuity and beauty of Jewish culture, a tradition that sanctifies life and transcends tragedy and death" - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: The precious legacy, by Linda A. Altshuler, Anna R. Cohn; Autonomy and independence: the historical legacy of Czech Jewry, by Hillel J. Kieval; Symbols of the legacy: community life, by Vivian B. Mann; Symbols of the legacy: family and home, by Vivian B. Mann; The legacy of tragedy and transcendence, by Linda A. Altshuler, Anna R. Cohn. Size: 4to.…

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The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures From the Czechoslovak State Collections
Auteur
Altshuler, David A.
Éditeur
Summit Books; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, New York and Washington D.C.
Année de publication
1983
État de l'article
Near Fine
Type de livre
Collectible
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0671494988
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780671494988
Édition
1st.
Catalogues du vendeur
European::Eastern European, Genre & Subject::Religious::Judaica, Museums, XXL::Extra Extra Large, XXX::COLLECTIBLES

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