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Among the intellectual luminaries dotting the millennia of Jewish history, none shines brighter than Maimonides (1138-1204). He was a rabbi, jurist, Talmudist, philosopher, physician, astronomer, and communal leader, and produced a myriad of writings on halakhah, theology, medicine, and philosophy that have attained near-canonical status. We have more source material from or about Maimonides than possibly any other Jewish figure in the medieval period, and more has been written about him than perhaps any other Jew in history. Epithets like the ‘Great Eagle’ and the ‘Western Light’ – and the glorifying statement ‘From Moses to Moses, none arose like Moses’ – reflect centuries ...
On the occasion of the sale of the Salton Collection, auction house Künker and Stack’s Bowers Galleries entrusted the historian Ursula Kampmann with the task of investigating the history of the Hamburger-Schlessinger dynasty of coin dealers. Her findings revolutionize what we know about the German coin trade. On 22 March 2022, the second part of the Lottie and Mark Salton Collection will be auctioned off by auction house Künker in Osnabrück. It contains spectacular coins that are all the more spectacular due to one fact: before he emigrated to the United States of America in 1946, Mark Salton bore the name Max Schlessinger. He was the son of Felix Schlessinger, who ran one of the most f...
Im Judentum wurde der Lebensanfang mit einer Vielfalt religiöser Rituale gefeiert. Das Jüdische Museum in Basel bewahrt Objekte aus der Schweiz und aus den angrenzenden Regionen des Elsasses bis nach Süddeutschland und gibt Einblick in eine grösstenteils verlorene Welt von Glauben, Ängsten, Hoffnung und Fröhlichkeit. Darunter sind Amulette, die Mütter und Kinder schützen sollten, Wimpel, die die Knaben in der jüdischen Gemeinschaft verankerten, Kissen für die Beschneidung, Geburtenregister des Beschneiders («Mohel-Bücher») und Wiegen für das Hollekreisch-Fest. Wissenschaftliche Artikel von Tali Berner, Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Uri R. Kaufmann und Daniela Schmid sind mit Inter...
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An illustrated catalogue of an exhibition at the Yeshiva University Museum, 1986-87, covering all aspects of Jewish religious, cultural, social, and economic life in Germany and Austria. A brief essay introduces each section. Pp. 301-315, "The Tragedy of Ashkenaz", traces the history of German antisemitism from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust.
Catalog of Catalogs provides a comprehensive index of nearly 2,300 publications documenting the exhibition of Judaica over the past 140 years. This vast corpus of material, ranging from simple leaflets to scholarly catalogs, contains textual and visual material as yet unmined for the study of Jewish art, religion, culture and history. Through highly-detailed, fully-indexed catalog entries, William Gross, Orly Tzion and Falk Wiesemann elucidate some 2,000 subjects, geographical locations and Judaica objects (ceremonial objects, illuminated manuscripts, printed books, synagogues, cemeteries et al.) addressed in these catalogs. Descriptions of the catalog's bibliographic components, contributors, exhibition history, and contents, all accessible through the volume's five indices, render this volume an unparalleled new resource for the study of Jewish Art, culture and history.
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