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Museum of Applied Arts (facing Üllői Street)
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The Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest is considered an art-nouveau masterpiece. When it was built, it was ground-breaking not only for Hungarian architecture but also for museum architecture in…

Contributor:

Ödön Lechner, Gyula Pártos

Places:

Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)

Date:

1896

Subjects:

Art, Cities, Leisure, Crafts

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Photograph of brick building on street corner with ornate roof finials and domed roofs.
Yadayim (Torah Pointers)
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These two Torah pointers (yadayim) are from Galicia, one made of ivory and brass and the other of wood. Yadayim (hands) are used during public reading of the Torah, so that the reader may avoid…

Places:

Austro-Hungarian Empire (Hungary)

Date:

Late 19th–Early 20th Century

Subjects:

Ritual object, Crafts, Jewish identity, Torah study, Purity

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Ritual Objects
Ivory pointer in shape of hand on one end with three ivory and brass beads.