Beauty in holiness : studies in Jewish customs and ceremonial art / edited by Joseph Gutmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gutmann, Joseph.

Gershwind/Bennett Endowed Fund for Judaica Collections.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish art and symbolism.

Judaism--Customs and practices.

Judaism.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 513 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Ktav Publishing House, [1970]

Contents:

The Second commandment and the image in Judaism / J. Gutmann

Notes to a history of the Jewish guilds / M. Wischnitzer

Jewish artisans and guilds in former Poland, 16th-18 centuries / M. Kremer

The ritual silver made by Myer Myers / G. Schoenberger

Contemporary ritual art / A. Werner

The origin of European Torah decorations / F. Landsberger

A German Torah ornamentation / F. Landsberger

Priestly vestments, Torah ornaments, and the King James Bible / J. Gutmann

Old time Torah-curtains / F. Landsberger

The origin of ritual implements for the Sabbath / F. Landsberger

The origin and development of two Sabbath ceremonies / J.Z. Lauterbach

The customs of looking at the fingernails at the outgoing of the Sabbath / S.B. Finesinger

Old Hanukkah lamps / F. Landsberger

Wedding customs and ceremonies in art / J. Gutmann

The ceremony of breaking a glass at weddings / J.Z. Lauterbach

Illuminated marriage contracts / F. Landsberger

How traditional are our traditions? / J. Gutmann

The Jewish rite of covering the head / S. Krauss

The origin of the decorated Mezuzah / F. Landsberger

Ceremonial creativity among the Ashkenazim / S.B. Freehof

Home rituals and the Spanish synagogue / S.B. Freehof.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Gershwind/Bennett Endowed Fund for Judaica Collections.

Presented to the Penn Libraries from the collection of Grace Cohen Grossman.

Other Format:

Online version: Gutmann, Joseph. Beauty in holiness.

ISBN:

0870680129

9780870680120

OCLC:

261890