Obj. ID: 53921
Sacred and Ritual Objects Kame'a Yerushalmit, Jerusalem, circa 1910
The following description was prepared by William Gross:
The amulet in the center of the left-hand page is derived from the Zuckerman model of 1914 as well as the 67th Psalm Menorah on the right-hand side. But the amulet, originally large, is so small and almost impossible to read that it is printed there for symbolic value only.
It was printed in the workshop of one of the foremost printers in Jerusalem, Shmuel Halevi Zuckerman.
sub-set tree:
M | Menorah
A | Angel | Sanoy, Sansanoy and Semangelaf (Sanvi, Sansanvi and Semangelaf)
M | Magen David | Magen David, inscribed
J | Jerusalem | Sites in Jerusalem: | Western Wall (Kotel) הכותל המערבי
J | Jerusalem
O | Ornamentation: | Full page framed | Full page framed by text
H | Hamsa
D | Diagram
T | Tablets of the Law
C | Crown
S | Sanctuary | Sanctuary Implements | Oil Jar
T | Tree | Cypress (Cupressus)
H | Holy and other places in the Land of Israel | Holy Tombs | Rachel's Tomb
H | Holy and other places in the Land of Israel | Holy Tombs | Dynasty of King David, Tomb of קברי מלכי בית דוד
T | Temple of Jerusalem | Temple of Jerusalem as the Dome of the Rock
M | Menorah | Tongs (melkahayim)
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Shmuel ben Ya’akov Halevy Zuckerman was born in Mezhyrich (Mesiritch) in 1856. As a six-year-old child, he moved to Palestine with his parents. He learned the printing trade while working for Yisrael Bak, after Bak's death he continued in the printing house of Bak’s son Nisan. He soon went to London and worked there in printing before returning to Eretz Israel to work in the shop of Ag”n. By 1885 he was a partner in that enterprise and from 1886 became the sole owner, publishing books under his name. He became one of the foremost printers in Jerusalem. The press operated in the Old City of Jerusalem until Zuckerman moved it to the new city in 1926.
More than 100 items from the Zuckerman printing house exist in the Gross Family Collection.