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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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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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The contribution deals with manuscripts of liturgical contents, namely twenty-nine manuscripts from the collection of the State Jewish Museum dating from the 17th-19n centuries. Most of them are of Bohemian or Moravian provenance and comprise prayers and hazkaroth from various communities, psalms, yotseroth, selihoth, haftaroth, etc.
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1. Alexander Scheiber: Foklór és tárgytorténet (Folklore und Motivgeschichte), I-II, Budapest, 1974. S. 402, 525. 2. Un example des activités du Museé Juif d’Etat
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This is one of a number of contributions dealing with the State Jewish Museum manuscript collection. It describes eighteen manuscripts of halakhic, cabbalistic and other contents most of them dating from the 18th-19th centuries.
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The paper, whose part appeared in Judaica Bohemiae, vol. XIII/1977, No. 2, comprises a list of prints published by the Hebrew printing house belonging to Meshe Katz’ grandsons. The list covers the period from the beginning of the 18th century to their merger with the Bak printers.
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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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