| Editors |
Renée Waale, Mariëlla Beukers. |
| Curators |
Judith C.E. Belinfante, Renée Waale, N. Prokopieva, N. Cherunova. |
| Collection |
Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg. |
| Imprint |
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1992. 128 pp., illustrations: 20 col., 71 b&w, 29 × 21.6 cm. English. |
| ISBN |
9066303549 |
| Location |
Joods Historisch Museum (4 May–29 November 1992) |
| Description |
A traveling exhibition of Jewish ethnographic and artistic objects, most of which were collected by An-Sky during his expeditions to Eastern Europe. Three essays on: An-sky’s expedition (from the memoirs of Abraham Rechtman, who participated in the expedition), “The Jewish Holdings in the Leningrad Ethnographic Museum” (Igor Krupnik), and a detailed overview of the “Ashkenazi Jewish Collections of the State Ethnographic Museum in St. Petersburg” (Ludmila Uritskaya). Catalog listing interspersed with lengthy extracts from Rechtman’s memoirs on: the synagogues of Mezeritch, Olik, Berdichev, Nemirov, Brahilov, Dobne; the interiors of old synagogues, pinkassim, amulets, and Rabbi Baruch’l of Medzhibozh. Unnumbered descriptive entries, some in detail. 318 items. |
| main keywords |
AN-SKY (SHLOYME RAPOPORT)CEREMONIAL OBJECTSCOSTUMEEASTERN EUROPEPHOTOGRAPHSRUSSIA/SOVIET UNIONSYNAGOGUE TEXTILESSYNAGOGUESTORAH ORNAMENTS |
| minor keywords |
AmuletsBesamimBread, festiveBrusttichlCandlesticks/CandelabraCircumcision implements/objectsEtrog containersGames/ToysHalitza shoeHand-washing vesselsHanukkah lampsHebrew illuminated manuscripts, 19th–21st CHistorical photographsKeter TorahKiddush cupsMatzah covers/bagsMezuzah casesMizrachOmer calendarsPapercutsPesach cupsPesach platesPurim groggersRimmonimSchpanyer arbetShtetlsSynagogue lampsSynagogues, Eastern EuropeSynagogues, Russia/Soviet UnionSynagogues, woodenTassTefillin casesTorah Ark curtainsTorah Ark valancesTorah mantlesYad |
| Related ephemera |
Summary of the exhibition from the Joods Historisch Museum Bulletin, leaflet, 4 pp., 29.5 × 21 cm. |
| Other venues |
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde, Cologne, Germany (15 January–25 July 1993); Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt, Germany (29 September 1993–30 January 1994); Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (22 March–27 August 1994); Jewish Museum New York, New York City, USA (November 1994–March 1995) |
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