BA-HAZARAH LA-'AYARAH: AN-SKI VEHA-MISHLAHAT HA-ETNOGRAFIT HA-YEHUDIT, 1912-1914: ME-OSFE HA-MUZE'ON HA-MAMLAKHTI LE-ETNOGRAFYAH BE- SANKT PETERSBURG

Jerusalem; Israel Museum, 1994. Softcover. Original Illustrated Wraps. 4to. 156, XX pages. 31 cm. First edition. Articles in Hebrew with abstracts in English. Added English title page: Back to the shtetl: An-Sky and the Jewish ethnographic expedition, 1912-1914: from the collections of the State Ethnographic Museum in St. Petersburg: exhibition catalogue. Profusely illustrated, some in color, with articles on the history of the An-Sky expedition. "From 1912 to 1914, S. An-ski (Shloyme Zaynvl Rapoport) headed ethnographic expeditions to the Pale of Jewish Settlement. After a limited display of the expeditionary collection in 1914, it was exhibited at the Jewish Museum in Saint Petersburg, which opened briefly in 1917, and then again in 1923, only to be closed in 1929. In 2000, most of the remaining artifacts were located at the Russian Museum of Ethnography in Saint Petersburg, while most of the manuscripts and audio recordings were held in Kiev, at the Vernadskii National Library of Ukraine. ... In 1992-1995, an exhibition of some items from the An-ski collection (approximately 150 artifacts) traveled to museums in Amsterdam, Cologne, Frankfurt, Jerusalem, and New York. The same collection was displayed in the exhibition Images of One People: The Jewish Collections of the Russian Museum of Ethnography in Saint Petersburg in April 2004." - YIVO Encyclopedia. Subjects: Jews - Russia - Folklore - Exhibitions. Judaism - Liturgical objects - Exhibitions. Jews - Russia - Civilization. An-Ski, S. , 1863-1920. State Ethnographic Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia) - Exhibitions. Light shelf wear to wraps, very clean and fresh. Very good condition. (YID-21-19).