Jewish Museums of the World : Masterpieces of Judaica

by COHEN GROSSMAN, GRACE

• ISBN13: 9780789399731
• ISBN10: 0789399733
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-09
• Publisher: Universe

Summary

Jewish Museums of the World: Masterpieces of Judaica celebrates more than 150 Jewish museums from every point on the globe. Treasures from unexpected collections, such as those in the Paradesi Synagogue in Cochin, India, the South African Jewish Museum, the Hebrew Congregation of St Thomas, Virgin Islands, the Jewish Museum of Greece, and the Museum of the History of Jews of Catalonia in Girona, Spain, give a tangible understanding of the breadth of the Diaspora. While the collections in these museums are as diverse as the cultures in which they are situated, the museums collaborated on this global project by contributing images from their distinct collections. Today, hundreds of museums around the world share the responsibility of celebrating the beauty, variety, and tradition of the Jewish way of life by protecting the Judaic objects generated by the worldwide Jewish community.This large format book, the first and only book on Jewish museums of the world, with more than 400 illustrations, almost 350 of them in color, features the prize collections of Jewish museums around the world, whose scope spans ceremonial to fine arts to history. An engaging text by the noted scholar and curator of The Skirball Museum in Los Angeles, Dr. Grace Cohen Grossman, describes the history and core of each of the collections. A directory of all the museums contained in the book, as well as other, important sites of Jewish historical interest, provides basic information, including phone, fax, and web sites. Combing the breadth of knowledge, the magnificence of the illustrations, and the inclusion of its encompassing directory, this book will make you feel as if you've taken a virtual tour of Jewish museums around the world.

Author Biography

Dr. Grace Cohen Grossman is the Senior Curator of Judaica and Americana at the Skirball Cultural Center Museum in Los Angeles, California. She is also the author of numerous books on Judaica.

Table of Contents

Active Museum of German

Jewish History Adelaide

Jewish Museum Alaska

Jewish Historical Museum and Community Center

Al-Ghriba Synagogue Alsacien Museum

American Sephardi Federation Center for Jewish History

Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery

Anne Frank House Austrian

Jewish Museum B'nai B'rith

Klutznick National

Jewish Museum Back Synagogue Bar

David Institute of Jewish Art Behrend-Lehmann-Museum for Jewish

History and Culture Benjamin and Dr. Edgar R.Cofeld

Judaica Museum of Temple Beth Zion Beth Hatefutsoth

The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora

Bible Lands Museum Buenos Aires

Jewish Museum Calle de los Judios 20 Cape Town

Holocaust Centre Carpentras Synagogue Casablanca

Jewish Museum Chase/Freedman Gallery Greater Hartford

Jewish Community Center Children's Galleries for Jewish Culture

Contemporary Jewish Museum Czech Memorial Scrolls Trust

Fine Museum

The Congregation Emanu-el

Judaica Museum Florida Holocaust Museum Freud Museum (London)

Galicia Jewish Museum Gate of Mercy Synagogue Gladys and Murray

Goldstein Cultural Center of Temple Israel Goldsmith Museum Gotthelf Gallery

San Diego Center for Jewish Culture Grand Synagogue (Marseilles) Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum Hamburg Historical

Museum Hanukkah House Harold & Vivian Beck Museum of Judaica Hebrew Congregation of St. Thomas Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Historisches Museum der Pfalz-Jüdische Abteilung Holocaust Museum Houston Ichenhausen

Synagogue Irish Jewish Museum Isaacs Gallery

Osher Marin Jewish Community Center Izralita Hitközség Janice Charach Epstein Museum Gallery Jewish Community Center Jewish Community Center of Denver Jewish Community of Padua

Jewish Cultural Historical Museum Jewish Department Jewish Historical Museum

Jewish Historical Museum (Belgrade)

Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington Jewish Museum (Asti)

Jewish Museum (Boskovice)

Jewish Museum (Emmendingen)

Jewish Museum (Sarajevo)

Jewish Museum (Sofia)

Jewish Museum and Synagogue (Tykocin)

Jewish Museum Augsburg Jewish Museum Berlin Jewish Museum Bratislava Jewish Museum Creglingen

Jewish Museum Frankfurt Jewish Museum Göppingen-Jebenhausen Jewish Museum Gröbzig Jewish Museum Hohenems Jewish Museum in Prague

Jewish Museum Meran Jewish Museum Munich Jewish Museum of Belgium

Jewish Museum of Bologna Jewish Museum of Ferrara Jewish Museum of Florence Jewish Museum of Florida Jewish Museum of Franconia

Jewish Museum of Odessa Jewish Museum of Soragna-Fausto

Levi Museum Jewish Museum of Stockholm Jewish Museum of Switzerland

Jewish Museum of Venice Jewish Museum Pres¿ov Jewish Museum

Trondheim Jewish Museum Vienna

Jewish Museum Westphalia Jewish Museum Zilina Jewish Museum

St. Petersburg Jewish Museum

Turin Jewish Museum/Synagogue Jewish War Veterans USA National Memorial Jewish Women's Archive Jüdisches Kulturmuseum und Synagoge

Kafka Museum Kahal Adat Yisrael Synagogue Kansas City Jewish Museum Kiev Museum of Historical Treasures of the Ukraine Kleine

Synagoge Leo Baeck Institute Center for Jewish History

Levi-Strauss-Museum Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage

Manchester Jewish Museum Marc Chagall Museum Minneapolis

Institute of Arts Mizel Museum Municipal Council Musée Bucheneck Musée d'Arts et

Traditions Populaires de Marmoutier Musée de Pays du Canton de Hochfelden

Musée Historique Musée Juif Comtadin Museo Ebraico Museo Luso-Hebraico Ab

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