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Temerl bat Hirsch Perlhefter
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1685/6
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This lacquered, cylindrical case for a Torah scroll was made from a combination of wood, bronze, and iron in Kaifeng, China. (The hard-sided Torah case was a Sephardic tradition. It offered more…
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Artist Unknown
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Kaifeng, Qing Dynasty
(Kaifeng, China)
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17th or 18th Century
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This silver circumcision set was crafted in Salonika in the Ottoman Empire. The cylindrical silver casket holds a circumcision knife; its handle is made from agate. A similarly shaped powder box and…
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Artist Unknown
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
18th Century
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William Spackman
Places:
London, Kingdom of Great Britain
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1719
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This Torah mantle was made in Vienna in the eighteenth century. It is embroidered with silk and metallic thread, metallic ribbon, and has metallic fringes. Set against a red background, this mantle’s…
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Artist Unknown
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1722/3
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The Gerush (Hebrew for “expulsion”) synagogue in Bursa, Turkey, dates back to the early sixteenth century and is unique in its dual-ark design; one upper section is located in the women’s gallery…
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Bursa, Ottoman Empire
(Bursa, Turkey)
Date:
Early 16th Century
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The Scuola Levantina (Levantine Synagogue), a Sephardic synagogue built in 1541, was restored in the late seventeenth century. The bimah is thought to have been carved by Andrea Brustolon (1662–1732)…
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1541
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The Velika Avlija (Old Temple or Synagogue) is the oldest synagogue in Sarajevo. It served the city’s first Jewish community, Sephardim, who began arriving in Sarajevo in the mid-sixteenth century…
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Sarajevo, Ottoman Empire
(Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Date:
1581
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1671–1675
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I received your inquiry in which you asked me to express my opinion . . . concerning a curtain with multicolored images that was designated a Torah curtain, and which has been used for some time for…
Contributor:
Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen
Places:
Altona, Kingdom of Denmark
(Altona, Germany)
Date:
1732