Jewish Museums of the World: Masterpieces of Judaica

by Grace Cohen Grossman

Jewish Museums of the World celebrates more than 150 Jewish museums from every point on the globe. Treasures from unexpected collections are featured in more than 400 illustrations, whose scope spans ceremonial to fine arts to history. A directory of all the museums contained in the book, as well as other, important sites of Jewish historical interest, provides basic information, including phone, fax, and Web sites. Combing the breadth of knowledge, the magnificence of the illustrations, and the inclusion of its encompassing directory, this book will make you feel as if you’ve taken a virtual tour of Jewish museums around the world.

416 pages, Hardcover

Published September 9, 2008

Reviews

[Book Club of One · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book features many beautiful pictures of the different sites and featured collection items, but is also more than a decade out of date (published 2003). Can also be very repetitive in detailing nation histories and some of the figures involved.

If after information on modern Jewish museums seek information through the internet, if looking for an overview of Jewish art or how the world remembers or reflects on Judaism, particularly the Holocaust, this may be helpful.

[Michael Kerjman · Rating 4 out of 5]

An informative work of Jewish art collections worldwide provides rather general historic descriptions of then ghettos mentioned as landscapes for creating the masterpieces.

Itself, it's a monumental example of meticulously collated data so rarely appearing even in travel books for the most ubiquitous tourists.

Highly recommended.