Overview
- Description
- Minutes, reports, workplans, incoming and outgoing correspondence, lists of art objects collected by the Society, published materials, such as articles, press cuttings, and photographs (collected mainly for the purpose of creating a catalog); personal files of the Board staff, name lists and applications of artists; financial files, such as preliminary budgets, approved budgets and cash reports.
- Alternate Title
- Jidisze gezelszaft cu farszprojtn kunst
Jewish Society to Propagate Fine Art - Date
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inclusive:
1946-1950
- Credit Line
- Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Collection Creator
- ?ydowskie Towarzystwo Krzewienia Sztuk Pi?knych
- Biography
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The Żydowskie Towarzystwo Krzewienia Sztuk Pięknych [Eng. Jewish Society to Propagate Fine Art; Yidd. Jidisze gezelszaft cu farszprojtn kunst) was one of several pre-war organizations which emerged in Poland after the Holocaust. The most important objective of the Society was to “propagate love and knowledge of fine art among Jewish people in Poland”. Additionally: to collect Jewish art, identify art lost during the war, organize exhibitions and lectures related to Jewish art, publish works in those fields, assist artists and teach the youth.
- Reference
- Sandel J., Żydowska sztuka kultowa [w:] „Straty wojenne zbiorów polskich w
Piątkowska R., Żydowskie Towarzystwo Krzewienia Sztuk Pięknych (Jidisze
Podhorizer-Sandel E., Wspomnienie o Józefie Sandlu (W 10 rocznicę śmierci),
Podhorizer-Sandel E., Żydowskie Towarzystwo Krzewienia Sztuk Pięknych,
Podhorizer-Sandel E. i Mórawski K., Z działalności Muzeum Żydowskiego
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Correspondence. Financial records. Minutes. Photographs. Registers.
- Extent
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2,363 digital images : PDF ; 3.42 GB .
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in three series: 1.Organizational files, publication materials and lists of art objects collected by the Society; 2. Personal files of the Board staff and name lists of artists; 3. Financial files.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Publication or copying of more than several documents for a third party requires the permission of the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny imienia Emanuela Ringelbluma.
- Copyright Holder
- Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Jews--Poland--Social life and customs--20th century. Jews--Poland--Intellectual life--20th century. Jewish artists--Poland--History--20th century--Registers. Jews in art--Poland--History--20th century. Art, Jewish--Poland--Registers. Jewish communities (ushmm)
- Geographic Name
- Warsaw (Poland) Poland
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the digitized collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in Jan. 2016.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-01-05 13:33:05
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn533572
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