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Orphan Objects. Facets of the Textiles Collection of the Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam

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Editor

Daniel M. Swetschinski.

Co-editors

Julie-Marthe Cohen, Stephen Hartog.

Imprint

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1997. 248 pp., illustrations: 164 col., 1 b&w, 28 × 23 cm. English.

ISBN

9040099537

Location

Joods Historisch Museum (18 April–19 October 1997)

Description

The history and significance of the Museum’s textile collection. Introduction presents several Dutch intellectuals’ opinions on the purpose of a Jewish museum. Highlights from this collection presented in five chapters (each with sub-sections), suggesting various angles from which these objects may be viewed: time and objects, religious devotion and artistic objects, the making of the objects, the objects in society, and the objects in history. Detailed descriptive entries. 136 items.

main keywords

SYNAGOGUE TEXTILESTEXTILES

minor keywords

Challah coversChuppahCircumcision clothsCircumcision Torah mantlesDolls/PuppetsEtrog containersFlags, societies/institutionsHead coverings, men’sMatzah covers/bagsMizrachPesach pillow coversPesach tablecloths/clothsPesach towel coversReader’s desk coversSamplers (needlework)TalitTapestriesTefillin bagsTorah (scroll)Torah Ark curtainsTorah Ark valancesTorah bindersTorah mantles

Related ephemera

Invitation to exhibition opening, leaflet, 6 pp., 4 col. illus., 21 × 15 cm; Joods Historisch Museum Newspaper, no. 10, April–November 1997, with cover story on the exhibition, 12 pp., 41.5 × 29 cm.

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