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Following his retirement, Hijman Binger created a daily prayer book, drawing its texts from well-known sources and illustrating the manuscript with the help of his children. Completed in 1820, the…
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Hijman (Ḥayim ben Mordecai), Marcus, and Anthonie Binger
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Amsterdam, United Kingdom of the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1820
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These gilt-silver Torah finials were made in Amsterdam by master silversmith Pieter van Hoven, who lived near the Jewish quarter and is best known for the Jewish ceremonial objects he crafted. Cast…
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Pieter van Hoven
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1696
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This Torah mantle, from about 1655, is embroidered with silk and gilt-silver thread and is richly decorated with curling, interlocking patterns. The crown dates from the middle of the nineteenth…
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Artist Unknown
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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ca. 1655
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This Torah shield contains a rare example of a personal inscription by the silversmith, stating: “This is the work of my hands in which I take pride, Ze’ev ben Abraham [?], silversmith from Piotrków…
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Ze’ev ben Abraham [?]
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Piotrków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland)
Date:
1766
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This silver alms plate was likely used to collect donations in a synagogue. In the center is a boat, meant to represent Noah’s ark, a common image on Jewish alms containers. The Hebrew word for…
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Artist Unknown
Date:
1864
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These two lecterns are from Jablonów in the southern part of eastern Galicia and may have graced the town’s wooden synagogue, which was built as early as 1674. Carved from wood, and standing on two…
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Artist Unknown
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Jabłonów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Yablonov, Ukraine)
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17th or 18th Century
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Torah finials are a pair of ornaments used to decorate the upper ends of the rollers on which the Torah scroll is wound. The Hebrew term rimonim, which means “pomegranates,” references the…
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Myer Myers
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Philadelphia, British America and the British West Indies (Philadelphia, United States of America)
Date:
1776
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This Torah ark curtain from Gördes, Turkey, features an archway flanked on either side with double columns and a hanging lamp, a motif common to both Islamic prayer rugs and mats and Ottoman Torah ark…
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Artist Unknown
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Gördes, Ottoman Empire (Gördes, Turkey)
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Late 18th–Early 19th Century
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This Torah curtain was made in Ankara, Turkey. The motifs of a central menorah and hands making the priestly blessing were common in other Ottoman Jewish ritual folk art. Embroidered verses from the…
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Artist Unknown
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Angora, Ottoman Empire (Ankara, Turkey)
Date:
1826
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This painting exemplifies the decorative plaques that sometimes adorned the eastern walls of synagogues to commemorate the glory of the Temple in Jerusalem and indicate the direction of prayer. In…
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Netanel Leichter
Places:
Lwow, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1898