Spanish Synagogue

On-line exhibition

Spanish synagogueJewish Museum in Prague

Spanish Synagogue, view of the exhibition on the western part of the ground floor, a display case focusing on Jewish writers.

Photo (c) Dana Cabanová / Jewish Museum in Prague

Spanish synagogueJewish Museum in Prague

Spanish Synagogue, view of the exhibition on the ground floor (south aisle).

Photo (c) Dana Cabanová / Jewish Museum in Prague

Spanish synagogueJewish Museum in Prague

 

Spanish Synagogue, view of the exhibition in the winter prayer room.

Photo (c) Dana Cabanová / Jewish Museum in Prague

Spanish synagogueJewish Museum in Prague

Spanish Synagogue, view of the exhibition on the north-eastern part of the ground floor, display featuring textile and silver ceremonial objects from the 2nd half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries from the JMP collections.

Photo (c) Dana Cabanová / JMP

Torah mantle with an Austrian eagle and the monogram of Emperor Francis I (1837)Jewish Museum in Prague

Torah mantle with an Austrian eagle and the monogram of Emperor Francis I, donated

by the leader of the Jewish community in Pohořelice (Pohrlitz), Shraga Judah (Veit) Schnabel (1799–1887) and his wife Hindl. Velvet, metal thread embroidery, appliqué, Moravia.

Portrait of Rabbi Michael Sachs (c. 1842) by Heinrich Porges (1820–?)Jewish Museum in Prague

Portrait of Rabbi Michael Sachs (1808–1864), a preacher with the Society

for the Improvement of Israelite Religious
Worship in Prague in 1837–1846c. 1842

Portrait of Rabbi Abraham Placzek (c. 1880) by Anonymous (Berger)Jewish Museum in Prague

Anonymous, Portrait of Rabbi Abraham Placzek (1799–1884)c. 1880

Torah crown donated to the synagogue in Teplice (Teplitz) (1872-1882) by Abraham David KuhJewish Museum in Prague

Torah crown donated to the synagogue in Teplice (Teplitz)

1872-1882

Torah Finials with an Austrian Eagle and the Monogram of Emperor Francis I (1821)Jewish Museum in Prague

Torah finials with an Austrian Eagle and the Monogram of Emperor Francis I.        

Acquired in 1942–1945 in connection with the rescue of property from Jewishcommunities in Bohemia and Moravia that had been disbanded by the Nazis.  
1821

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