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The article was preceded by another one published in Judaica Bohemiae, vol. IX/1973, No. 1. This time the authoress deals with Torah mantles dating from the years 1750-1800. She is interested in the makers and provenance of the mantles from the collection of the State Jewish Museum, classifies them, studies the most remarkable examples and surveys their development in the above period.
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In the collections of the State Jewish Museum there are also illuminated manuscripts dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. They are twelve manuscripts of Czech and Moravian provenance (prayers and hazkaroth, taqqanoth Hewra qadisha, Qitsur Macavar Jabboq, and others) made out by or under the influences of the scribes belonging to the 18th century Moravian penman school.
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The article commemorates the life and work of the painter Bedřich Fritta. In the Holocaust period Fritta was imprisoned in the Terezin concentration camp - ghetto and depicted its real nature in his works. The authoress deals with Fritta’s pre-war and Terezin pictures.
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The authoress pays attention to mizrahim from the collections of the State Jewish Museum and describes the most important of them painted on glass, cut out of paper, printed, or embroidered.
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A description of manuscripts from the collections of the State Jewish Museum follows the paper published in Judaica Bohemiae, vol. VIII 1972, No. 1. This contribution makes the readers acouainted with another twenty-six manuscripts dating from the 18th-19th centuries. Their authors, Jewish scholars Ezekiel Landau, Meir Fishl Bumsla, Shemuel ha-Levi Kolin, Betsalel ben Joel Ranshburg and others, once lived in the Czech lands.
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1. Restauration des textiles au Musée Juif d’État de Prague 2. Die Restaurierung silberner Gegenstände 3. Отчет о выставке »БЕДРЖИХ ФРИТТА - Pисунки из коллекции Государственного еврейского музея«
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The article describes fifty-five manuscripts from the collections of the State Jewish Museum which include texts of varied contents, e.g. explanations and Bible commentaries, hiddushim to the Talmud, recorded Talmudic lectures, derashoth, works by various authors, etc. The manucripts described date from the 18th-19th centuries and are mostly of Bohemian and Moravian provenance.
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This paper is Russian translation of the article published in this issue: The Progress of the Restoration Work at the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague The restoration of the cemetery started in the year 1975 went on successfully in the year 1976 as well. The work was concentrated upon the most important tombstones representing the heart of the sightseeing path.
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The restoration of the cemetery started in the year 1975 went on successfully in the year 1976 as well. The work was concentrated upon the most important tombstones representing the heart of the sightseeing path.
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The paper is devoted to the Prague Jewish scholar of the Enlightenment period, Peter Beer (1758-1838), who was one of the representatives of the radical wing of the Prague Haskalah. The introductory part of the paper quoting his autobiography surveys Beer’s life and work. Attention is also paid to his relation to Moshe ben Maimon’s works and his interpretation of Maimonides’ philosophy, then there is a passage dealing with Beer’s conception of “pure Mosaism“ and his interpretation of Judaism from the position of Enlightenment, and finally there is a survey of sources drawn on by Peter Beer.
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The pewter plates in question served for wedding presents. The authoress characterizes the whole pewter collection owned by the State Jewish Museum and then focuses her attention on wedding plates dating from the end of the 18th century as well as later periods. In the end the authoress describes single plates and dishes from the collection of this museum, which were made in Prague and Brno workshops.
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The manuscript from the collection of the State Jewish Museum described by the author was written out in Vienna in the revolutionary year 1848. It is a poetic paraphrase of a biblical text consisting of words beginning with the letter ’aleph.
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Review of: Barzilay, Isaac: Joseph Shlomo Delmedigo (Yashar of Candia), his Life, Works and Times. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1974, p. 379
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