Archive of Objects of the Month
2004
July - Laces on Synagogue Textiles
August - Item from the Old Jewish Museum in Prague
September - Rabbi Loew Cup
October - Etrog dish
November - Torah mantle
December - Hanukkah lamp with the images of Moses and Aaron on either side
2005
January - Torah Shield
February - Torah shield with the images of Moses and Aaron
March - Torah Mantle of Mordecai Maisel
April - Seder Plate
May - Pendant with engraved letters “EHA”
June - Picture for the Shavuot festival
July - Max Liebermann, Gartenlokal an der Havel, c. 1933
August - Shiviti with Daily Psalms
September - ANNIVERSARY: The Prague publisher Jakob B. Brandeis
October - Georg Jilovsky: Prague painter and graphic artist
November - Salomon Hugo Lieben
December - Robert Guttmann: Kindling the Hanukkah Lights
2006
January - Václav Kejmar: Portrait of Composer Jaromír Weinberger
February - Jewish National Fund Certificate
March - Writer Oscar Baum – death anniversary
April - Wedding plate, 1842
May - Ferdinand Schmutzer - Portrait of Sigmund Freud
June - Václav Popelík: Commemoration of the Old Jewish Cemetery and its Surroundings
July - Scroll of Esther in a case
August - Anonymous: Portrait of Rabbi Salomon Winter
September - Bedřich Fritta (1906-1944): Makeshift Barracks (An Evening in the Barracks)
October - Whip used on Yom Kippur
November - Torah binder
December - Porcelain Hanukkah lamp
2007
January - Robert Piesen: Portrait of Pavla Mautnerová (b. 1919)
February - Karel Fleischmann: Registration of People Waiting for Deportation
March - Dezider (Dudy) Salomon: Purim Mask with the Text of the Yiddish Song ‘A gutn purim, malech’
April - Pesach cup
May - Goods tram in the Lodz ghetto, ID card of Dr. Pavel Eckstein
June - Otto Gutfreund: Feather Strippers
July - Mementoes from the Terezín ghetto: Toy doll
August - Holy Scripture from the collections of the Central Jewish Museum (1942–1945)
September - Shell with Rosh Hashanah greetings
October - Ignác Porges: Portrait of Chief Rabbi of Prague Solomon Judah Löb Rapoport
November - Tefillin bag, a relic from the Patria disaster
December - Friedrich Feigl: King David Street in Jerusalem, 1933
2008
January - Jewish National Fund Alms Box
February - Pavel Hrach, Václav Fajt: Miniature sheet and stamp featuring the drawing Moonscape by Petr Ginz
March - Set of adornments for a Torah scroll
April - Seder plate with an illustration of the song Chad Gadya
May - Torah shield, a copy of which was presented to Israeli President Herzog
June - Synagogue Cushion with the Motif of the 10th Anniversary of the Foundation of the State of Israel
July - Flowers and Views of the Holy Land
August - Decorative wall panel – Jews Praying at the Western Wall
September - Anonymous author: Fragment of a New Year’s Greetings Card
October - Habonim Flag
November - Copy of an ancient shekel and a present-day coin
December - Alms box for the poor in the Holy Land
2009
January - Wine Carafe
February - Chain worn by the shames of Vinohrady Synagogue
March - The Terezín Family Camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau
April - Case for dowry cash
June - Model for the Rabbi Loew Monument at the New Town Hall, 1910
July - Ladislav Šaloun (1870, Prague – 1946, Prague) Model for the Rabbi Loew Monument at the New Town Hall, 1910,
August - Commemorative coin for the anniversary of the death of Rabbi Loew
September - Hazkarah (memorial prayer) for Rabbi Loew and his wife Perle
October - Karel Zeman, Jaroslav Tvrdoň, Special Postage Stamp – Rabbi Judah Loew
November - Helga Hošková-Weissová (b. 1929) Girls’ Billets in Terezín before a Visit by the International Red Cross, Terezín, 1944
December - Master CS (Cyrillus Schillberger ?): Hanukkah Lamp, Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1873
2010
January - Torah binder
February - Purim cups
March - Wildt Atelier, Oskar Baum at Work
April - Pesah Haggadah with illustrations by Otto Geismar
May - TerezĂn vase with a portrait of Theodor Herzl
June - Circumcision outfit of the composer Karel Reiner
July - Hermann Weiss, Jihlava: View of Mahler’s house on Znojemská Street in Jihlava, 1936
August - Commemorative coin for the anniversary of the death of Rabbi Loew
September - Hazkarah (memorial prayer) for Rabbi Loew and his wife Perle
October - Karel Zeman, Jaroslav Tvrdoň, Special Postage Stamp – Rabbi Judah Loew
November - Helga Hošková-Weissová (b. 1929) Girls’ Billets in Terezín before a Visit by the International Red Cross, Terezín, 1944
December - Master CS (Cyrillus Schillberger ?): Hanukkah Lamp, Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1873
2011
January - Carved Pointer
February - Author unknown: Rabbi and His Wife, ca. 1855
March - Anonymous: Micrography (Megillat Esther, chapters 1-6 and 6-9)
April - Leo Haas (1901-1983): Conversation, Vienna, 1925
May - Emil Orlik (1870-1932), Portrait of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Vienna, 1902
June - František Gellner (1881-1914): Ex libris (before 1914)
July - Bohumil Lonek (1903-1998): Portrait of Rudolf Slánský (1901-1952), 1951
August - Aron ha-kodesh from the synagogue in Dašice near Pardubice, East Bohemia, ca. 1822
September - Synagogue curtain from Kolín (1630), decorated using a rare textile method
October - Player piano roll on a spool (Inv. No. 179.622)
November - Synagogue curtain, inv. no. 020.221 Silk, passement (braiding), appliqué in metal and metal thread 2130 x 1700 mm
December - Eugen von Kahler (1882–1911) Self-Portrait, 1911 Oil on canvas, 105 x 60 cm
2012
January - Cinema advertisement of Rudolf Elsner, tradesman from Říčany by Prague, Bio-Reklama Slavia, Prague, Národní 21, year of production and display: 1926
February - Georges Kars (2 May 1880, Kralupy, Central Bohemia – 6 February 1945, Geneva, Switzerland) City Corner, 1906
March - Purim Plaque, 1863
April - Plates depicting a page from the Prague Haggadah Copper plate, etched, Central Europe (?), turn of the 19th/20th centuries
May - Mizrah with figure of Moses Wood, canvas, polychrome, oil painting, Bohemia, last third of the nineteenth century
June - Pot Coaster from the TerzĂn Ghetto
beech wood, ink drawing with aniline colouring, TerezĂn, early 1945
Height 210 mm, width 183 mm
Inv. No. ŽMP 179.071
July - Max (Maximilian) Horb (1982- 1907), Portrait of a Boy, 1900
oil on canvas, 76 x 60 cm (89 x 73.5 cm)August - Object of the Month – August 2012 A bag containing soil from the Mount of Olives Canvas, print, soil, Jerusalem, c.1920-30
September - Synagogue curtain with the motif of a lion blowing the shofar
This year we will be celebrating Rosh Ha-Shanah (literally "head of the year" in Hebrew) – the Jewish New Year – on the 17th of September.
October - Jiří Kolář (1914-2002) Shoah, 1952 collage from two gelatin silver prints, 223 x 330 mm (330 x 453 mm) JMP 177.545/10 Provenance: donated by the artist
November - Bell with a depiction of the entrance to the Old-New Synagogue Iron, hammered and polychrome painted, Bohemia, 2nd half of the 19th century Height 94 mm, width 95 mm Inv. no. JMP 61.820
December - Selihot. (Penitential Prayers). Fragment. Prague: 1512–1515 (1522?). JMP, inv. no. 178.825, Genizah Holešov. Found in frame of the primary research by the JMP in the late 1990’s.
2013
January - Object of the Month – January 2013 Hanukkah Menorah Forged iron Unmarked, undated, Bohemia, 2nd half of the 18th century Height 1075 mm, width 742 mm Inv. No. JMP 12.566
February - Important Hebrew books printed by the Elsenwanger press
Abraham Farisol, Iggeret Orhot Olam [Epistle on the Ways of the World], Prague, Elsenwanger Press, 1793, illustrated by Anton Balzer Israel Landau, Hok le-Yisra’el [Law of Israel], Prague, Elsenwanger Press, 1798, illustrated by Johann Carl Balzer Jewish Museum in Prague’s collection of rare printed books and manuscripts and JMP library collection Originally in the Prague Jewish Community’s library (Prager Israelitische Cultus-Gemeinde Bibliothek) collectionMarch - The oldest synagogue textile in the collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague
• 1547 or 1590/1592
• shipped to the Jewish museum in 1942-45 from the Old-New Synagogue collection point in Prague
• part of the Jewish museum’s collection / Judaica (textile) sub-collection
• on display in the Maisel Synagogue
April - Interior of the Vinohrady Synagogue, Prague
• Jindřich Eckert, ca. 1900
• acquired in 1947
• JMP collection, Judaica sub-collection (Visual Art Collection, Photography and New Media sub-collection)
• on display at the Robert Guttmann Gallery as part of the exhibition “Symbols of Emancipation. Nineteenth-Century Synagogues in the Czech Lands” (until 4 August)
May - David Gans – Tzemah David
• David Gans, Tzemah David. Prague, Solomon ben Mordecai and Moses ben Joseph Bezalel Katz, 1592
• Acquired in 1946 as part of the pre-war Library of the Religious Community in Prague
• The collection of rare printed books and the library collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague
June - Manuscript with a penitential prayer for the Jews of Kroměříž massacred by the Swedish army in June 1643
• 1702
• shipped to the JMP from the Kroměříž collection point in 1942-45
• part of the JMP collection / Judaica sub-collection (manuscripts)
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