Jewish Folk Art: From Biblical Days to Modern Times
by Ungerleider-Mayerson, Joy (Text by); Erich Lessing (Photographs by)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0671630075
- ISBN 13
- 9780671630072
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Summit Books, 1986. First printing. Hardcover. near fine. Folio. 283, [1]pp. Indices, glossary and bibliography. Original pictorial dust-jacket over blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine, and blind-stamped lettering on front cover. Lavishly illustrated in full color.
"Jewish Folk Art" authoritatively examines the role that this art has played in Jewish culture, from birth to death, during the Sabbath and the other holy days, at home and in the synagogue. Taken from the best collections in the world, here are beautiful examples of marriage contracts, Torah binders, Esther scrolls, Seder plates, noise makers, mezzuzahs, amulets, paintings and other objects of wood, metal and embroidery used in custom and practice and created over a two-thousand-year period, wherever Jews have lived.
Contents: Preface - From the Beginning. Jewish art and the Second Commandment - Marriage. The art of the ketubbah -- The Home. "And upon they gates" -- Birth. "Be fruitful and multiply" -- Sabbath. "Desire of all days" -- Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. "Days of awe, days of rejoicing" -- Chanukkah. "The miracle that happened there" -- Purim. "Cursed be Haman and blessed be Mordecai" -- Passover. "Remember the day you went forth from Egypt" -- The Synagogue. "In the house of assembly" -- Glossary - Bibliography.
Previous owner's bookplate on rear endpaper, otherwise near fine copy.
"Jewish Folk Art" authoritatively examines the role that this art has played in Jewish culture, from birth to death, during the Sabbath and the other holy days, at home and in the synagogue. Taken from the best collections in the world, here are beautiful examples of marriage contracts, Torah binders, Esther scrolls, Seder plates, noise makers, mezzuzahs, amulets, paintings and other objects of wood, metal and embroidery used in custom and practice and created over a two-thousand-year period, wherever Jews have lived.
Contents: Preface - From the Beginning. Jewish art and the Second Commandment - Marriage. The art of the ketubbah -- The Home. "And upon they gates" -- Birth. "Be fruitful and multiply" -- Sabbath. "Desire of all days" -- Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. "Days of awe, days of rejoicing" -- Chanukkah. "The miracle that happened there" -- Purim. "Cursed be Haman and blessed be Mordecai" -- Passover. "Remember the day you went forth from Egypt" -- The Synagogue. "In the house of assembly" -- Glossary - Bibliography.
Previous owner's bookplate on rear endpaper, otherwise near fine copy.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52476
- Title
- Jewish Folk Art: From Biblical Days to Modern Times
- Author
- Ungerleider-Mayerson, Joy (Text by); Erich Lessing (Photographs by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- ISBN 10
- 0671630075
- ISBN 13
- 9780671630072
- Publisher
- Summit Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
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