From the partners’ collections: The Great Council of the Jews in Hungaria 1650
Artist: unknown
Date: 1683
Medium: woodcut
Persistent URL: http://museums.cjh.org/Display.php?irn=16888
Repository: Yeshiva University Museum
Accession number: 2008.112
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by Zachary Levine, Assisant Curator and Jacob Wisse, Director, Yeshiva University Museum, one of five partners of the Center for Jewish History
A series of new textiles, commissioned from New York-based artist Mark Podwal for Prague’s celebrated Altneuschul (Old-New Synagogue), is the focus of an exhibition at Yeshiva University Museum, Old and the New (November 27, 2011–January 15, 2012). The oldest…
Hanukkah lamp/Shabbat candleholder. Probably Vienna, Austria. Approximately 1886-1922. Silver. YU Museum.
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From the partners’ collections: Goetz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand
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Description: Limited edition of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Goetz von Berlichingen, illustrated with woodcuts by Bruno Goldschmitt (1881-1925), a German-Jewish artist from Nuremberg.
Creator: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
Creator: Goldschmitt, Bruno, 1881-1925
Object Origin: Hellerau bei Dresden, 1923
Persistent URL: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=797483