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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

Cloth embroidered with floral border, and four central panels, the top two with pitchers, vines, and flowers, and the bottom two with trees and ribbons with Hebrew text.

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Torah Cover (?)

ca. 1600

Cloth cover with embroidery and metal crown, and crown resting on top of cloth.

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Torah Mantle (Venice)

ca. 1655

Cloth with embroidered image of tablets in clouds above mountain and city.

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Torah Ark Curtain (Venice)

Simḥah

1680/1

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

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Responsum: On a Torah Curtain of Printed Silk

Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen

1732

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

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Call Me Ruth

Marilyn Sachs

1982

Coat with an ornately embroidered neckline.

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Coat of Rabbi Suleiman Mani (Ottoman Palestine)

Early 20th Century

Cloth embroidered with decorative flowers, spirals, and lines.

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Torah Ark Curtain from Woman's Dress

Early 20th Century