© 2022 Schwabe Verlag,
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG, Basel, Schweiz
191 pages, hardcover
ISBN 978-3-7965-4607-5
Publication Date: 12.09.2022
Dedicated to: Peter Stein & Charlotte Stein-Fell
seligen Andenkens
Editor and translator: Naomi Lubrich, Basel
Proofreader: Ricarda Berthold, Freiburg
Cover: Elena Haschemi Schirazi, Basel
Typesetting: Elena Haschemi Schirazi, Basel
Illustration (maps): Marva Gradwohl, Bern
Printer: Hubert & Co., Göttingen
Printed in Germany
Birth Culture
Jewish Artefacts from Rural Switzerland and Environs
In Judaism, the beginning of life was celebrated with a variety of religious rituals. The Jewish Museum in Basel preserves objects from Switzerland and the neighboring regions of Alsace to southern Germany and sheds light on a largely lost world of faith, fears, hope, and happiness. Among them are amulets to protect mothers and children, wimples to anchor boys in the Jewish community, pillows for circumcision, birth registers of the circumciser («mohel books»), and cradles for the Hollekreisch festivities. Scholarly articles by Tali Berner, Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Uri R. Kaufmann, and Daniela Schmid are complemented by interviews with Dinah Ehrenfreund-Michler, Aviv Szabs, Esra Weill, and Elisabeth and Ralph Weingarten (-Guggenheim), which tell stories about religion and life from personal and professional perspectives.
Contributors:
Tali Berner
Dinah Ehrenfreund-Michler
Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek
Stefan Hofer
Uri R. Kaufmann
Daniela Schmid
Aviv Szabs
Esra Weill
Elisabeth & Ralph Weingarten (-Guggenheim)
© 2022 Schwabe Verlag,
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG, Basel, Schweiz
191 pages, hardcover
ISBN 978-3-7965-4607-5
Publication Date: 12.09.2022
Dedicated to: Peter Stein & Charlotte Stein-Fell
seligen Andenkens
Editor and translator: Naomi Lubrich, Basel
Proofreader: Ricarda Berthold, Freiburg
Cover: Elena Haschemi Schirazi, Basel
Typesetting: Elena Haschemi Schirazi, Basel
Illustration (maps): Marva Gradwohl, Bern
Printer: Hubert & Co., Göttingen
Printed in Germany