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This catalogue is produced to coincide with the exhibition Life and Art through Stained Glass Roman Halter (1927–2012) at Ben Uri The London Jewish Museum of Art Art Identity Migration 10 April – 8 June 2014 108a Boundary Road off Abbey Road Acknowledgements © Copyright Ben Uri 2014 London NW8 0RH Curator: David Glasser © 2014 Estate of Roman Halter All rights reserved. Any copy of this book issued by the publisher as a paperback is sold subject to the condition that it shall not by way of trade or otherwise be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including these words being imposed on a subsequent purchaser. www.benuri.org.uk Ben Uri Gallery and Museum Limited Registered Museum 973 Registered Charity 280389 Registered Company in England 1488690 Our thanks go to Lenders Leo Baeck College, The Sternberg Centre for Judaism, London Susan Halter Mr and Mrs Trevor Pears CMG The Redfern Gallery, London Photograph credits Beit Shalom, The National Holocaust Centre and Museum, Nottingham Imperial War Museum, London Leo Baeck College, The Sternberg Centre for Judaism, London The Liberal Synagogue, Elstree Mill Hill United Synagogue, London The National Gallery, London The Central Synagogue, London The New North London Synagogue, London The North Western Reform Synagogue, Alyth Gardens, London Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem, Israel Yad LaYeled, The Ghetto Fighters’ Museum, Israel Estate of Roman Halter Photography Justin Piperger All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any other information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. British Library cataloguingin-publication data Essays Caroline Swash, Third generation practitioner, lecturer and historian of stained glass Colin Wiggins, Special Projects Curator, The National Gallery, London A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-0-900157-47-9 Book Edited by David Glasser, assisted by Rachel Dickson and Thomas Hughes of Ben Uri Designed by Alan Slingsby Detail illustrations Cover The Jerusalem Window The Central Synagogue, London Page iv Detail of Chai window The New North Western Reform Synagogue, London Works cited 14 Lino-Cuts by Aviva Halter-Hurn; Paintings and Watercolours by Roman Halter, exhibition catalogue, The Redfern Gallery, 20 Cork St London 4–31 April 2008 The Synagogues of Britain and Ireland: An Architectural and Social History Sharman Kadish Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn. and London, 2011 Roman’s Journey Roman Halter Portobello Books, London, 2007 Poems; Window Designs, Michael Etkind and Roman Halter Holocaust Testimony 2, Cambridge 1983 Research Thomas Hughes and Andrea Fam, with special thanks to Ardyn Halter and Aloma Halter Our thanks also go to Chris Stephens, Tate Britain; Aviva Halter-Hurn, Claire Mandel and Stephen Ross This publication has been generously supported by We thank Manya Igel of Manya Igel Fine Arts for her Preferred Partnership which allows free entry to all our exhibitions in 2014

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