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Breast kerchief

(Brusttukh)

Yad

A breast kerchief tucked inside the front opening of a woman’s dress from the neck to the waist.

Translations

  • Hebrewברוסטוך
  • GermanBrusttuch
  • RussianБрусттух
  • FrenchBrusttukh
  • DutchBorstlap
  • ItalianBrusttukh
  • CzechBrusttuch
  • HungarianMellkendő
  • SpanishCorbatón
  • GreekΜπρούστουχ
  • PolishBrusttuch
  • Arabicمنديل الثديان
  • Yiddishברוסטטוך
  • LadinoBrusttukh

Bibliography

Frankel, Giza. “Notes on the Costume of the Jewish Woman in Eastern Europe.” Journal of Jewish Art, edited by Bezalel Narkiss, vol. 7, 1980, pp. 50-58.

Juhasz, Esther, ed. The Jewish Wardrobe: From the Collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2012, pp. 42, 318.

Juhasz, Esther. “Shpanyer Arbet.” Treasures of Jewish Galicia: Judaica from the Museum of Ethnography and Crafts in Lvov, Ukraine, ed. Sarah Harel Hoshen, Tel Aviv: Beit Hatfutsot, 1996, pp. 149-59.

Lebet-Minakowska, Anna. Katalog judaików: Cz. 1. Tkaniny [Catalog of Judaica: Vol. 1 Fabrics], Krakow: Muzeum Narodowe, 2008.

Skromak, Elżbieta et al. Kultura Żydów Galicyjskich: ze zbiorów Muzeum Etnografii i Rzemiosła Artystycznego we Lwowie [Culture of Galician Jews from the Collections of the Museum of Ethnography and Artistic Crafts in Lviv]. Stalowa Wola: Drukarnia Malex, 2006, pp. 190-93, 294-301

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