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Cloth embroidered with floral border, Hebrew text across the top, and repeating motif in center.

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Torah Ark Curtain (Prague)

Temerl bat Hirsch Perlhefter

1685/6

Cushion cover embroidered with Star of David, flowers, and decorative motifs along sides and across middle.

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Cover for Circumcision Cushion

Late 17th or Early 18th Century

Short curtain embroidered with Hebrew text across the top with griffins and crowns.

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Torah Ark Valance

1700

Cloth with fringe on bottom, Hebrew text on top and middle, and border of foliage.

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Torah Mantle (Vienna)

1722/3

Cloth with embroidered columns on either side, pattern in the middle, and Hebrew text between two lions and crown on top.

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Torah Ark Curtain (Kriegshaber)

Elkana Schatz Naumberg

1724

Cloth embroidered with columns on either side and building in the middle with turrets and dome, with small Hebrew inscription above.

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Torah Ark Curtain (Istanbul)

ca. 1735

Three cylindrical embroidered cloth covers, two with crowns on top and one with two finials on top.

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Torah Mantles (Netherlands)

1735–1737

Long rectangular cloth folded in several places, with floral design on one side and Hebrew text on the other side, with image of person reading from the Torah and couple under a wedding canopy.

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Torah Binder (Rechnitz)

1750

Carpet with embroidered designs and four small posts near each corner.

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Persian Carpet

1600–1726

Rectangular cloth arranged in two columns embroidered with Hebrew text and small Star of David on right side.

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Torah Binder (Italy)

Wife of Shimon Soave

17th Century

Printed page of Latin text, with portrait of man in center, surrounded by wreath with cherubs, and Latin text in decorative frame below.

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Dialoghi di m. Magino Gabrielli Hebreo, sopra l’utile sue inventioni circa la seta (Dialogues of Magino Gabrielli, Hebrew, On the Utility of His Inventions in Silk Production)

Meir Magino

1560

Mixed media work featuring English and Hebrew text in frames of rectangles throughout work, still life in center rectangle surrounded by hand prints and broken hearts, decorative motif on either side of still life, and floral border.

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David’s Room

Jenifer Bar Lev

1992