The U.S. tour of The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collections opened at the Bass Museum in Miami Beach after its record-setting Smithsonian presentation. The exhibition gathered ritual objects, textiles, silver, pottery, drawings, portraits, and Holocaust-era material from the State Jewish Museum in Prague, much of it originally seized from Jewish communities in Bohemia and Moravia. Its Miami stop, running from January 23 to March 18, was part of a Smithsonian-organized tour that brought rarely seen Judaica to North American museum audiences. The show mattered not only as decorative-art and ethnographic history, but also as a Cold War-era revelation of a preserved Jewish material culture that had survived Nazi confiscation and Communist-era isolation.
The tour helped make Prague's Jewish Museum and surviving Judaica collections internationally visible.