case study no. 2 the inventory project (2012) exhibition labels booklet

7/31/2019 Case Study No. 2 The Inventory Project (2012) Exhibition Labels Booklet

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The Magnes Collection

of Jewish Art and Life

The Bancroft Library

University of CaliforniaBerkeley

Warren Hellman GalleryAugust 28December 16, 2012


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The display cases at the very center of The Magnesbuilding are designed to unleash the curatorial mind

by presenting diverse collection items, a variety ofdisplay modes, and a wide range of perspectives.This is the ideal platform for the Case Studyexhibi-tion series, conceived as a scholars playground.Each year, UC Berkeley faculty, graduate studentsand visiting scholars will collaborate with thecurators of The Magnes in creating collection-based

exhibitions based on emerging research.It is our privilege to inaugurate the series with anexhibition created in collaboration with JeffreyShandler, Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers,and a leading gure in the study of modern Jewishculture. The Inventory Projectdraws on his current

research on the role of inventory as a practice ofmodern Jewish life and offers an unconventionallook at The Magnes Collections multi-dimensionalarchive, library, and museum holdings.

In the course of several months, Jeffrey Shandlerand I explored the collection in search of a varietyof items that relate to the act of inventorying. We

highlight here rosters, calendars, glossaries, andmaps, but also ritual objects, items of clothing, post-cards, souvenir books, and restaurant menus. Theseobjects were created by Jews in Europe, Israel andthe Americas, as well as North Africa, the MiddleEast and India, to take stock of their own activities

and social status, to celebrate themselves and theircommunities, or to cope with immigration and exile.At times, they were also the product of the otheras in the emblematic case of the bureaucratic appa-ratus of the Spanish Inquisitiondevised to accountfor Jewish particularism.

Each of the eighty items in the exhibition is subject

to a multiplicity of views and interpretations.Accompanying the physical display, digital compo-nents online and on-site will allow for the growingunderstanding of a phenomenon that, as JeffreyShandler writes, is a dening practice of modernJewish culture, although seldom recognized as such.

Francesco Spagnolo, Curator


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Introductionby Jeffrey Shandler

As part of my ongoing research on the role ofinventory in modern Jewish life, I came to TheMagnes looking for examples of inventories.To nd them, I started with an inventory: thedatabase of all Magnes holdings, which I searchedusing such keywords as list, roster, table,

catalog, register, menu, chart, and, ofcourse, inventory. I also looked in collections ofcertain kinds of objects, such as postcards andcalendars, which I knew would offer interestingexamples of inventory. Magnes staff memberssuggested additional items in the collection withwhich they were familiar.

While gathering these items, I thought about howto organize them as an inventory of inventories.Certain categories of inventorying emerged fromthe juxtaposition of individual examples. Theseincluded categories I was already interested in,such as inventories of people or of things, as well

as new possibilities for grouping these items fromthe Magnes collections. As is true of all invento-ries, how items are organized is key to assigningmeaning to them.

When my inventory of inventories from The Magnespassed into the hands of Magnes staff for thecreation of this exhibition, the juxtaposition of indi-vidual examples continued to change, creating stillmore possibilities for seeing connections amongthis diverse assortment of objects. This, too, is trueto the spirit of inventories, whose contents are con-stantly on the move and whose rubrics are regularlyreconceived.

Following are brief discussions of some of the newcategories of Jewish inventory that emerged fromthis project. I hope that visitors to the exhibition willbe stimulated by what is on display here and willcontinue the process of exploring the role of inven-tory in modern Jewish life.

Time

The pervasive, standardized measuring of time is adening characteristic of modern life. Regulated unitsof time appear in inventories of Jewish life rangingfrom itineraries for package tours of Israel to listingsof the precise minute for lighting holiday candles.

Modern Jewish calendars integrate multiplerubrics related to measuring time. Each page ofthese calendars typically displays a month accord-ing to the Gregorian calendar with correspond-ing dates of the Jewish months. Calendars alsoprovide information regarding traditional religiouspractice, celebrate Jewish history and accomplish-

ments, or promote accord between Jews and theirneighbors. In each case, the practical role of thecalendar for tracking time according to two dif-ferent systems of reckoning is enhanced with in-formation of symbolic importance, to be contem-plated throughout the year.


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Worship

Inventories of various kinds appear throughoutJewish worship practices. In addition to its role in or-ganizing the complexities of worshipfor example,

using an omercalendar to reckon the days betweenPassover and Shavuotinventorying helps maintainthe synagogue as a physical and social institution.Synagogue seating charts provide an inventory ofcongregants names and indicate something of theirstatus within the community, since seats are oftenassigned to congregants in exchange for donations

of support.

The iconic presence of the Ten Commandments,whether as an image in synagogue decoration or onritual objects, reminds worshippers not only of themost renowned list in Judaism but also of its foun-dational commitment to religious law. The shape

of two tabletsoften with highly abbreviated textsof the commandments, sometimes with Romannumerals representing themis among the mostwidely recognized symbols of Judaism. Arguably theoldest list in Jewish culture, the Ten Commandmentsis also its most emblematic.

Inventories gure in ritual practice not only asguides to observancePassover seder plates, forexample, list the traditional order of the rituals per-formed during this ceremonial mealbut may alsoalso appear as symbols invoking the ancient Israelitepast, as in representations of the twelve tribes ofIsrael on ritual objects. They can even constitute

exercises in the imaginary, as in the list of ushpizin,which conjures a roster of honored patriarchalvisitors to asukkah.

Knowledge

Lists help constitute bodies of knowledge and

programs of study, whether religious or secular,

and track the progress of scholarship. Inventorypractices also regulate how knowledge is acquiredand disseminated. When these lists becomesubjects of study themselves, they shed lighton the social practices of research and teachingas well as changing notions of what constitutesJewish literacy.

The list of Jewish Studies courses offered by theCity College of New York in 1974 included in theexhibition demonstrates how this eld was takingshape early in its history in American universities.The range of courses offered drew on scholarswith expertise in different disciplineshistory, lit-

erature, foreign languages, comparative religions,social sciencesto construct a eld of scholarshipstriving for comprehensive coverage of Jewish ex-perience around the world and over many centuries.Programs of study such as this sought to establishJewish Studies as a substantive area of intellectualinquiry in its own right and of relevance to otheracademic elds.


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Leisure

Leisure activities may be thought of as an escapefrom the rigors of modern life, but tourism, camping,even dining out are themselves modern phenomena.

As such, they are dened by inventoriesincludingschedules, price lists, and rosters of participants,landmarks, souvenirs, or activitieswhich structurehow people experience their leisure time.

Books of pressed owers from the Holy Land, oftenjuxtaposed with pictures of famous landmarks, were

popular souvenirs for Christian and Jewish touristsat the turn of the twentieth century. These bookscombine inventories of regional ora and sacredgeography in keepsakes that interrelate religion,tourism, and botany.

Picture postcards were a widely popular newmedium at the end of the nineteenth century inEurope and America. In addition to sending post-cards to acquaintances, especially when traveling,collecting postcards became a popular pastime.Their standardized, modular format provides a rubricfor publishing cards in series, creating inventoriesof images on a vast array of subjects. Postcards

portraying collections of writers, historical artifacts,scenes of Jewish life, or historical events, celebratethese inventories of images as Jewish patrimony.

Finance

The nancial records of Jewish leaders andcommunal institutions contain a wealth of informa-

tion beyond the amounts of money they document,variously revealing insights into social stratication,cultural literacy, or ritual custom. Other nancialrecords demonstrate how authorities under whomJews lived regulated and scrutinized their lives.

The traditional prohibition against writing on theSabbath inspired the invention of various devicesthat allow congregants to specify donations theywish to pledge, in exchange for the honorary rolesassigned to them during worship, without violatingJewish law. These devices accommodate both tradi-tional religious precepts and the imperative to keeprecords of nancial pledges.

Protection

Displaying, carrying, or wearing a list can constitutean act of empowerment. Through these practices,inventories are used not only to invoke supernatu-ral protection and ward off harm, as in the case ofamulets, but also to celebrate Jewish communal

solidarity.A shekel registration card certied that the bearerhad paid a yearly fee and was entitled to vote in theElection of Delegates to the World Zionist Congress.In the years before the establishment of the Stateof Israel, registering supporters to the Zionist causeemulated the registry of voters in state elections.

Each of these cards empowered its bearer as oneamong many in a mass movement, attested by theregistration number.


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The Catalog

Case A

Congregation Ohabai Shalome cornerstone, timecapsule, and time capsule contentsSan Francisco, California, 1895WJHC 2001.002.1, WJHC 2001.002.2, and

Congregation Ohabai Shalome Time Capsulecontent, WJHC 2001.002 AR1

Members of Ohabai Shalome, a congregation estab-lished in San Francisco in 1865, deposited severalitems in a time capsule set inside the cornerstone

of the congregations new building on Bush Street,in the course of a groundbreaking ceremony thattook place on July 7, 1895. The building survived the1906 earthquake, and is today the oldest synagoguein San Francisco. The capsule, a metal box, was un-earthed in 2001. The items included in the capsuleform an idiosyncratic inventory of time, place and

community, suggesting multiple notions of how torepresent the congregations history for posterity.Some of the items are themselves inventories.

A1. Cornerstone, inscribed in Hebrew: ohaveyshalom 15 tamuz [5]655 lk[...](Ohabai Shalome,July 7, 1895)

A2. Time capsule (metal box)

A3. Selection of objects deposited in the time

capsule, including coins and a mezuzah

A4. List of Ofcers and Members of the

Congregation Ohabai Shalome, San Francisco, 1895

A5. Order of Exercises of the Laying of the CornerStone of the New Synagogue of CongregationOhabai Shalome, on Bush St., near Laguna St., [SanFrancisco,] on Sunday, July 7th, 1895 2 oclock p.m.

A6. Form of Application [to the benevolent societyChebra Bikur Cholim Ukedisha], San Francisco 1860


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Case B

Front

B1. Embroidered Torah mantle with depictions of acrown, anking lions, a ower vase and the Tabletsof the Law listing the Hebrew incipits of the TenCommandmentsCommissioned by Moishe and Debora RosenkindUnited States, 20th century

Velvet, metallic embroidery thread, sequins andrhinestonesGift of Congregation Sherith Israel, San Francisco,

75.183.63

B2. Calendar for counting the omer with depic-tions of an arch and supporting columns, a lion, a

shell, ower vases and oral motifs, inscribed withblessings, Psalm 67, Hebrew poetry, and a list ofthe forty-nine days of the count with correspondingkabbalistic descriptionsGermany, 18th cent.Tempera on paperJudah L. Magnes Museum purchase, Siegfried S.Strauss collection, 67.1.6.16

B3. The Jews: 35 Centuries of Extraordinary HumanExperience Spring 1974 Course Offerings [of the]Department of Jewish Studies, CCNYCourse offering yer, illustration by Ben Shahn(1898-1969)New York, City College of the City University of NewYork, 1974Offset litho2012.0.25

B4.Synagogue manuscript plaque for the rstsiyyum ha-shas (

Talmudic study cycle) listingnames of participants and corresponding titles ofTalmudic tractatesYaaqov Weiser (scribe)Kosice (Yid. Kashoy), Slovakia, 15 Shevat [5691](February 2, 1931)Ink on paper

2010.0.41

B5. Machzor for the Festival of ShavuotHebrew

Egypt, 19th centuryInk on paper, leather binding, 99 leavesKaraite Manuscript Collection KC22

The nal leaves of this manuscript prayer bookinclude a list of names of members of the Karaite(bene miqra) community in Egypt, dated RoshChodesh Nissan 5635 (April 6, 1875). The listdivides the community members among kohanim(Priests), leviim (Levites) andyisraelim (Israelites),

and includes householders who are married to twowomen.


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Back

B6.Synagogue seating chartLiptovsk Mikul, Slovakia, 1846-1878

Ink and tempera on paperGift of John David Bachrach, 68.60.1.2

B7.Shiviti amulet for household protection, listingthe evil forces being contrasted, names of angels,and the seven mystical guests (ushpizin) visiting asukkah during the Festival of Sukkot (Tabernacles)

India, 20th centuryInk on paper, decal transfersJudah L. Magnes Museum purchase, Bernard Kimmelcollection, 68.99.3

Case C

Front

C1. Painted Hebrew manuscript leaf for the SukkahCentral Europe, 17th-18th centuryInk and gouache on paper

2012.7

Plaque for adorning asukkah with devotional kab-balistic manuscript texts about the Festival ofSukkot (Tabernacles), illustrated with a crown,anking lions, an ouroboros, and seven roundelslisting the ushpizin, the mystical guests who visit the

sukkah during the seven days of the Festival (afterZohar5:103b).

C2. Painted Passover plate depicting a family at aFestival table, and a list of the fourteen parts of theSederFrance, Limoges, 19th century

PorcelainJudah L. Magnes Museum purchase, 78.25

C3. Protected Wild Flowers. Dont Pick WildFlowers!Israel, Japhet Press Ltd. Society for Protection ofNature Nature Reserves Authority, paintings by

Heather Wood, [n.d.]Hebrew, Arabic and English posterOffset litho2012.0.16

Souvenir books from Jerusalem and the

Holy Land

C4.prachey yerushalayim. minchat yehudah vi-yerushalayim. asefat prachim ha-tzomechim aladmat eretz yisrael pahq yerushala[yi]m tovvaJerusalem (Flowers of Jerusalem. Offering of Judeaand Jerusalem. Collection of owers from the earth

of the Land of Israel. Here in the holy city Jerusalemmay it be established soon and in our days)Hebrew, English, French and ArabicJerusalem, n.d., 14 platesOlive wood and red leather binding, pressed owers,paper, buffering paper2012.0.29


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C5. Flowers and Views of the Holy Land. Souvenir of theBritish Accupation [sic]. 9th December 1917. JerusalemEnglish, Hebrew, and FrenchJerusalem, Chagise, 1917, 13 plates, lithographs by A.

L. MonsohnPressed owers, paper, buffering paper, carved olivewood and cloth binding83.63.2

C6. asefat prachim ve-tziyurey meqomot ha-qedoshim be-eretz ha-qodesh yerushala[yi]m.

Flowers and Views of the Holy Land JerusalemHebrew, English, German, French and RussianJerusalem, [1914], 13 plates, lithographs by A. L.MonsohnOlive wood and cloth binding, pressed owers,

paper, buffering paper85.12.2

C7. Wall-hanging Calendars

Interns for Peace. Middle East Calendar 1987English, Hebrew and ArabicIsrael, Palphot, [1986]Offset litho

2012.0.26

Jerusalem 3000. American Jewish Cultural Almanac[for the year] 5757 (1996-1997)Illustrated by Michel Schwartz (1926-2011)

English and HebrewNew York, Boys Town Jerusalem, [1996]Offset litho2012.0.27JNF Almanac [for the year] 5739 (1978-1979)English and HebrewNew York, Jewish National Fund, [1978]

Offset litho2012.0.28

Back

C10.A Genealogical Tree of the Priests and Levites.Exod. VI.16. Numb. III.18 etc.

After Augustine Calmet, vol. 2, V, p. 63Engraving on paperGift of Seymour Fromer, 76.79

C11.A Development Map of Israel 1948-1965Jerusalem, Israel, CARTA, [1965]Offset litho

2007.0.51

Case D

Camp Kelowa (Lake Huntington,

California)D1. Camp Kelowa activities list for StephenZellerbach (1927-2011)Lake Huntington, California, 1936-1937Leather hide, pigmentsWJHC 1990.005.4


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D2. Camp Kelowa publicity book. CampersBehavior Frequency scale (Condential)San Francisco, California, 1931Scrapbook

Louis and Emma Blumenthal papers, BANC MSS2010/689

Stephen Zellerbach (1927-2011), a philanthropist,businessman, community activist, fourth generationSan Franciscan, and UC Berkeley alumnus, descend-ed from a family that immigrated to California from

Bavaria in the 1850s. TheZellerbach family papersare part of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art andLife at The Bancroft Library.

Camp Kelowa, located in Lake Huntington,California, was a camp for Jewish boys establishedby Louis and Emma (ne Loewy) Blumenthal in

1928. Camp activities were documented by the or-ganizers in yearly scrapbooks containing copies ofpromotional materials, administrative forms, andphotographs. The Blumenthals played central rolesin San Franciscos Jewish communal life. Louis wasexecutive director of the YMHA (1924-1933) and theco-founder (with Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel) and execu-

tive director of San Franciscos Jewish CommunityCenter (1933-1959).

Stephen Zellebachs souvenir of summer activi-ties at Camp Kelowa lists them in an orderly seriesof images on a piece of leather in the shape of ananimal hide. This object links the camps regularized

schedule of organized activities for children groupedby age with an ideal of camping as an escape into apre-modern idyll, exemplied by a mythic image ofAmerican Indians.

Decorative shields for Torah Scrolls

D3. Torah shield decorated with semi-preciousstones, engraved with the names of the twelvetribes of Israeln.d.Brass, semi-precious stones77.0.1

D4. Torah shield decorated with crown and threehanging bells, Tablets of the Law with lid containinga miniature silver scroll, anking lions, columns andoral motifs, with compartment for holiday plaqueInscribed In memory of Alter Josef and Helene

Sturm, parents of Klara, Myron, Otto, and LouisUnited States, 19th cent.SilverGift of Congregation Beth-Israel Judea (SanFrancisco, California), WJHC 2006.011.4

D5. Torah shield decorated with Tablets of the

Law, a crown, cornucopias, oral motifs and threependants, with compartment for holiday plaqueThomas Hopp (silversmith)Prague, 1840SilverGift of Rabbi Ira Book, 79.39 a-d


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Drawers

Drawer One: Amulets

1.Amulet for newborn children depicting Lilith,inscribed with biblical quotations and kabbalisticformulas listing the letters of the name of godIran, 18th century

SilverJudah L. Magnes Museum purchase, Siegfried S.Strauss collection, 67.1.1.3

2. Printed amulet inscribed with the words shadayandyerushalayim, a list of names of angels, and thenames of rabbinical saints Shimon bar Yochay(2nd cent.), Meir Baal ha-Nes (2nd cent.), andAmram ben Diwan (d. Morocco, 1782)Morocco, 20th centuryPaper, ink, metal and glass frameJudah L. Magnes Museum Purchase with fundsprovided by Dr. Elliot Zaleznik, 78.4.40

3. Manuscript shiviti amulet with menorah formedfrom the verses of Psalms 67Morocco, 20th centuryInk on parchmentMuseum Purchase with funds provided by Dr. ElliotZaleznik, 78.4.10

Drawer Two: Calendars

1. New Years greeting card, calendar for the year5663, and donation receipt form inscribed to Mr.Zvi K[...], San Francisco

Hebrew, English, German and RussianJerusalem, Palestine, beyt havaad haklali-CentralCommittee of the United Jewish Cong[regations] inHoly Land, Salomon Brothers Press, 19022012.0.19

2. Hebrew Almanac for the year 5677 (1916-1917)

advertising steamship tickets (shifskarten) sold byB. Herzberg & Son, 1119 Fillmore St., San Francisco,CaliforniaEnglish, Hebrew and YiddishNew York, Hebrew Publishing Company, 19162012.0.20


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3. Hebrew Almanac [for the year] 5712 (1951-1952)advertising The San Francisco BankEnglish, Hebrew and YiddishNew York, Hebrew Publishing Company, 1951

2012.0.21

4. Hebrew Almanac for the year 5687 (1926-1927)advertising Meyer Londons Inc., Matzos Bakery,494-496-498 Grand St., New York, with manuscriptannotations about the Friedberg familyEnglish, Hebrew and Yiddish

New York, Hebrew Publishing Company, 19262012.0.22

5.Vest Pocket Hebrew Almanac [for the year] 5726(1965-1966)English and HebrewNew York, Hebrew Publishing Company, 1965

2012.0.23

6. Vest Pocket Hebrew Almanac [for the year] 5730(1969-1970)English and HebrewNew York, Hebrew Publishing Company, 19692012.0.24

Drawer Three: Postcards

1. New Years greeting card depicting the shield ofthe High Priest, with a quotation from Exodus 39:14Germany, n.d.

PostcardGift of Solomon L. Gluck, 73.43.10

2. New Years greeting card featuring twenty-sixancient coins, with a bilingual caption in Englishand YiddishNew York, Hebrew Publishing Co., Series 13 No. 79,

Printed in Germany, n.d.PostcardGift of Nell Mendelsohn, 92.34.37

3.A Collection of SteinsEBE Co, n.d.Postcard

Gift of Nell Mendelsohn, 92.34.115

4.A Collection of SteinsChicago, F. M., 1906PostcardGift of Nell Mendelsohn, 92.34.116

5. Postcard featuring the portraits of seven YiddishauthorsNew York, Williamsburg Art Co., No. 47, Printed inGermany, n.d.Postcard

Gift of Solomon L. Gluck, 73.43.58

6.yidishe kinder tipen (Jewish Children Types)New York, Williamsburg Art Co., No. 105, Printed inGermany, n.d.New Years greeting postcardGift of Solomon L. Gluck, 73.43.12


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7.Jahres Panorama. le-shanah tovah (Years review.Happy New Year). New Years greeting card bookletillustrated with ten scenes of Jewish lifeCologne, Germany, Max Victor, 1879

Extendablepanoramakarte bookletJudah L. Magnes Museum purchase, Siegfried S.Strauss collection, 67.1.15.33

8.Affaire Dreyfus N. 1. RvisionVenice, Italy, G. Sternfeld, signed CT, mailed fromAntwerp, Belgium, 1905

PostcardGift of Nell Mendelsohn, 92.34.710

9.Affaire Dreyfus N. 2. Le prisonnierVenice, Italy, G. Sternfeld, signed CT, n.d.PostcardGift of Nell Mendelsohn, 92.34.711

10.Affaire Dreyfus N. 3. La dame voile etEsterhazyVenice, Italy, G. Sternfeld, signed CT, n.d.PostcardGift of Nell Mendelsohn, 92.34.712

Drawer Four

Baruch Braunstein collection on the Inquisition of

Majorca, Spain

LIB 99.59 AR1

Baruch Braunstein (1906-1991) was a rabbi, teacher,scholar, and radio narrator. He collected a varietyof original documents about the Inquisition trialson the Spanish island of Majorca in the 17th-18thcenturies, and published The Chuetas of Majorca:Conversos and the Inquisition of Majorca (1936). The

collection includes sixteen packets of investigativeproceedings (procesos), and other supporting mate-rials documenting the trials against Judaizing menand women and the operations of the bureaucraticapparatus of the Spanish Inquisition.

1. Proceso No. 7: Sequela del processo, y causa

criminal de fee [] contra Alonso, alias Jacob Lopeznatural de Madrid Judaicante pertinaz(Case No. 7:Proceedings of the trial and criminal prosecution of

faith [...] against Alonso, aka Jacob Lopez, a native

of Madrid, relentless Judaizer), Majorca, Spain, 1674

2. Instruccion, y regla, que han de observar los

Ministrio de el distrito de esta Inquisicion deToledo... (Instructions and rules to be observed bythe Ministries of the Inquisition district of Toledo),

octavo, Toledo, n.d., 8p.

3. Estado de las rentas salarios y gastos de elconsexo y tribunales de inquisicion de estos reynos

(State of the revenues salaries and expenses ofthe council and courts of inquisition of these

kingdoms), manuscript copy of an original

document from 1731, made by the Archivo General

Central [de Alcala de Henares], Madrid, [20th cent.]


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Case E

E1. Embroidered matzah pouch for the PassoverSeder table made of three pockets with protrud-

ing tabs labelledkohen, levi, andyisrael, depictinganimals and oral motifs, and inscribed with thenames of the sections of the Seder mealCotton and silk

75.183.140

E2. Desk clock with xed dial in Hebrew letters andmoving hands, supported by columns surmountedby birds, standing above a reproduction of theTablets of the Law with an engraved list of the TenCommandments according to their Hebrew incipitsand two anking lionsBrass, cast and engraved

68.71

E3. Cuff link set depicting the Tablets of the Lawsurmounted by a Star of David, with a list of the TenCommandments in Roman numeralsUnited States, 20th centurySilver

Gift of Emmie Vida, 91.15.2.3

Counting ritual times and synagogue

donations

E4. Notebook for recording pledges during theliturgy, with lists of liturgical honors and names ofcommunity membersHebrewKochi, Kerala, India, 20th cent.India ms. 100

E5. Tarif dermitzvot undaliyot (Rates of the offer-ings for performing ritual duties and honors in the

synagogue)

German and HebrewAltona, Germany, 1873Ink on paperLIB 75.40.1

E6.Schedule of the Yom Kippur Services for theyear 5655HebrewAltona, Germany, 1894Ink on paperLIB 75.40.8

E7.zekher rov r nedarim un nedivos (Masterregister for pledges and alms)English and YiddishWashington, DC, patented by Moses Cohen, 1913Ink on paper with metal arrow marksJudah L. Magnes Museum purchase, 2008.6

Synagogue donations recorder with movable metalarrows in circular dials, enabling to register a donorsname, ritual standing, full mailing address, amountof the donation and liturgical time of the pledge,without having to write.


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E8. Table of Hebrew verb constructions withMalayalam translationsHebrew and Malayalam, 64 p.Kochi, Kerala, India, 20th cent.

India ms. 74

Marking the Life Cycle

E9. Painted manuscript prayer book for theCircumcision ceremonyHebrew and FrenchInk and tempera on parchment, leather binding; 28leavesGermany, 1714-1715Judah L. Magnes Museum purchase, Siegfried S.Strauss collection, 67.1.8.3

Manuscript copy ofsharvit ha-zahav, commentaryonsod ha-shem by David ben Aryeh Yehudah Leybof Lida (d. 1696), Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazi com-munity of Amsterdam, originally published assodhashem ve-sharvit ha-zahav(Amsterdam 1680).The manuscript also includes songs, the text of theGrace After Meals, and annotations in Hebrew and

French listing the items needed at the ceremonyby the mohel, a registry of names of six childrencircumcised by an owner of the manuscript, andremedies against bleeding.

E10. S. W. Freund, Farglaykh-kalender un familienrekord r geburten, chasunes un yortsayten far 216

yor (fun [5]545 biz [5]740). Corresponding DateCalendar and Family Record [for Births, Weddings,and Yahrzeits]. Corresponding Dates of the Hebrewand Civil Calendar for 216 Years (1784 to 2000)Yiddish and EnglishNew York, Hebrew Publishing Company, [1925], 370p.

E11. Edgar Frank, The Bar Mitzvah Calendar BookEnglishNew York, Jonathan David Co., 1952

E12. Memorial calendar for Abraham Hoislich,

deceased on April 9, 1902, listing the correspond-

ing dates of his death anniversary in the Gregorianand Hebrew calendarsGerman and HebrewBudapest, Leopold Lengyel, [1907]Color engraving with metallic gold ink on paperboard

Gift of Louis Shawl, 81.38.1

Visiting and supporting Jewish Palestine

E13. Desk Calendar depicting a view of Jerusalem,with cards listing days of the week, days of themonth and months of the Jewish year

HebrewJerusalem, signed on the back by S. Seligsberger,n.d.Olive wood, pigment, ink on paper72.6


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E14. tokhniyot le-tiyurim be-eretz-yisrael. Itinerariesfor Tours in PalestineDesign and Clishe [sic] by Y. Cogon.Hebrew and English

Palestine, The Palestine Express, Azriel Press, n.d.Offset litho2012.0.1

E15. Certicate of Shekel Registration No. 401051USA, U.S. Central Shekel Board-World ZionistCongress, 1937

Engraving and letterpress on paperGift of Morris and Frances A. Brown, 99.51.1

E16. Land of Israel eretz-yisrael at the New YorkWorlds Fair 1939. Jewish Palestine Exhibit at theNew York World Fair Membership Card No. 101674 ANew York, American Committee for Jewish Palestine

Participation at the New York Worlds Fair, 1939Offset lithoGift of Morris and Frances A. Brown, 99.51.2

Jewish Foodways in San Francisco

E17. Bernsteins Fish Grotto restaurant menuSan Francisco, n.d.BANC MSS 2010/546

Bernsteins Fish Grotto, established by MauriceBernstein in 1912, was located at 123 Powell Street,near the cable car turnaround in downtown San

Francisco. Best known for its entrance, an imitationof Christopher Columbus ship, La Nia, protrud-ing over the sidewalk, and for seven themed diningrooms, the restaurant closed in 1981.

E18. Menu for the wedding reception of SophieGerstle and Theodore Lilienthal

San Francisco, E. Bosqui & Co., 1879Sophie and Theodore Lilienthal letters and photo-graphs, BANC MSS 2010/732

Sophie Gerstle Lilienthal was the daughter of Lewis(Loeb) Gerstle and Hannah (Johannah) Greenebaumof San Francisco. On 27 Aug. 1879, she married

Theodore Max Lilienthal, the director of LilienthalBrothers hops and grain of New York.

E19. H. Browne, sh dealer, invoiceSan Francisco, March 31, 1898Adolph Sutro papers, 1858-1993, BANC MSS2010/613

Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro (1830-1898), born inAachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), Germany, immigrated toCalifornia in 1850, became a merchant, promotedthe construction of a tunnel he designed to drainand ventilate mines in the Comstock Lode, Nevada,

and invested in San Francisco real estate. In 1894, hewas elected Mayor of San Francisco on the PopulistParty ticket. TheAdolph Sutro papers includeinvoices from a range of 19th-century San Franciscobusinesses, listing specialty food items boughtfor the Sutro home in San Francisco in the 1890s,ranging from foods for Passover to oysters.

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