1814 – 1851 – 2014 Heia Jødene!

Torp-Holte,Torill (text). 1814 – 1851 – 2014 Heia Jødene! Oslo: Jewish Museum Oslo, 2014. First edition. Quarto. 58pp. Original color illustrated wraps with red and white lettering on cover. Inside cover photographs. Exhibition curated for the Jewish Museum Oslo to celebrate the bicentennial year “devoted to showing Jewish life and presence at its most ordinary and fundamentally “Norwegian” – in outdoor recreation and in sports.” Guide through the exhibition and brief history of the Jews in Norway from 1851, when a constitutional amendment supported by the poet and activist Henrik Wergeland allowed Jews to settle in Norway permanently. Illustrated with b/w and color photographs and two reproductions of sports event posters documenting Jewish participation and accomplishments in Norwegian sports. Text in Norwegian and English. Very light wear along edges of good+ wraps, interior in very good condition. g+ to vg. Softcover. (40504) $75