Img. ID: 13747
The trapezoid Torah mantle comprises a cloak attached to a round top, and a vertical back opening.
It is decorated on its upper front face with a crown, flanked by two Stars of David. Below the crown is a Judeo Spanish (Ladino) dedicatory inscription embroidered in square filled letters, which reads:
"ק"ק (קהל קדוש) בית שאול/ הקדש די/ איסטירינה די/ משה מ' בינביניסטי התרפא (=5681)."
"(Dedicated to) The Beit Saul Holy Congregation (Remarks: no. 1). Made by Istrinah (wife of) Moses M. Benvenisti. The year 5681 (1921)."
Below the inscription is a wreath of two flowering stems with leaves bound by a ribbon.
The round top has two openings for the Torah staves. A fringed strip surrounds the top and bottom edges of the cloak.
Online collection of the ritual objects from the E. Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute is available here: http://cbj.jhi.pl/collections/964689
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Torah mantle | *Synagogue Objects | Torah mantle
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Date
1921
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Material / Technique
Silk, cotton
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Material Inscription
silk threads in chain stitch embroidery
Material Additions
machine-made fringed strip
Material Cloth
dark red silk velvet
Material Lining
cotton uneven twill
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Measurements
Height
760 mm
Length
Width
460 mm
Depth
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Diameter
230 mm
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Intact
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Documented by CJA
Surveyed by CJA
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Custom
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Façade (main)
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Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
Location of Niche
Location of Reader's Desk
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Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
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Summary and Remarks
The Beit Saul synagogue was established around 1898, in the new Jewish Quarter of Hamidie. It was designed by the Italian Architect Vitaliano Poselli, who built several buildings around the city. Samuel Saul Modiano's wife, Fakhimah, dedicated the synagogue to her husband. The building was structured as a large basilica with a women's section, which ran along three sides. The Torah Ark was located in the east, while the Bimah was an elaborated marble structure set in the centre. After the destruction of most synagogues in the great fire of 1917, the Beit Saul Synagogue became the city's central synagogue. The synagogue was destroyed by the Nazis in 1943 after the deportation of the Jewis
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History/Provenance
A collection of ritual objects was confiscated from the Greek Jews when they were transported to Auschwitz during World War II. In 1949, this Torah mantle was handed to the museum from Torun, a city in northern Poland, where the Nazis had concentrated the ritual objects from different places, mainly from Poland.
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Bibliography
- Elias, V., Messinas. The Synagogues of Salonika and Veroia. Athens: Gavrielides Editions, 1997.
- Kerem, Yitzchak, and Bracha, Rivlin. "Salonika" In Pinkas Hakehillot: Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities from their Foundation till after the Holocaust: Greece. Ed. By Bracha, Rivlin. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1998.
- on the synagogue see Messinas. The Synagogues, pp. 84-86, synagogue no. 46; Kerem, Salonika, p. 245
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Object Copyright
The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw (JHI)
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