The Creation of the World

Exhibition Catalog

The catalog of the exhibition The Creation of the World: Illustrated Manuscripts from the Braginsky Collection offers a fascinating panorama of Jewish written culture and Jewish life spanning eight centuries.

In numerous texts and illustrations, the catalog introduces a great variety of items from the Braginsky Collection, including printed books, handwritten manuscripts, ketubbot (marriage contracts), and megillot (scrolls of the Book of Esther). Additional texts recount the history of books and profile outstanding book artists such as Aaron Wolf Herlingen and Charlotte Rothschild. The catalog also focuses on the institutions and people essential for Jewish written culture, including the Jewish communities, scholars of religious law, and the family.

Details

Schöne Seiten. Jüdische Schriftkultur
aus der Braginsky Collection
336 pages with over 200 color illustrations,
paperback
Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess
Zürich 2011

ISBN: 978-3-85881-332-9
German
Editors
Emile Schrijver, Falk Wiesemann u. a.
Contributing Writers
Evelyn M. Cohen, Elka Deitsch, Gabriel M. Goldstein,
Sharon Liberman Mintz, Shalom Sabar,
Menahem Schmelzer, Emile Schrijver und
Falk Wiesemann, Vorwort von René Braginsky,
Photographs by Ardon Bar-Hama
Design
studio frederik de wal
Price
45 euros