Obj. ID: 10849
Sacred and Ritual Torah mantle, Greece, First quarter of the 20th century
The trapezoid Torah mantle comprises a cloak attached to an oval top, and has a vertical back opening. A Hebrew dedication is inscribed on the central front, embroidered in square, filled letters, which reads:
"לעילוי נשמת/ פאלומבה אשת/ אברהם רוזה/ ת"ם (=תבורך מנשים; שופטים ה:כד)."
Translation: (Dedicated) for the repose of the soul of Palomba, the wife of Abraham Rosa, may 'she be blessed above all women' (Judg. 5:24)."
A pattern of flowers is scattered all over. The oval top has two openings for the Torah staves. A silver fringed strip surrounds the top and bottom edges of the cloak.
sub-set tree: 
Core: machine-made cloth
Width: 940 mm
Diameter: 240/190 mm
intact
A collection of ritual objects was confiscated from the Greek Jews when they were transported to Auschwitz during World War II. This Torah mantle was transferred to the museum in 1948 from Naro?no, a city in Silesia where the Nazis stored the objects.
Amar, Ariella, and Irina Chernetsky, Jewish Art in Greece: The Collection of the Jewish Museum of Greece (Jerusalem, The Center for Jewish Art, Internal publication,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, May 2007)
Amar, Ariella and Einat Ron, Endangered Movable Objects and Their Untold Stories, Vol. 1: Ritual Objects. A Project Submitted to UNESCO (Jerusalem: The Center for Jewish Art, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007)
Hatzimichali, Angeliki,The Greek Folk Costume (Athens: Benaki Museum, 1977)
Amar, Ariella, and Irina Chernetsky. The Collection of the Jewish Museum of Greece. Jerusalem: The Center for Jewish Art, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007. Internal publication.
Amar, Ariella, and Einat Ron. Endangered Movable Objects and Their Untold Stories, Vol. 1: Ritual Objects. A Project Submitted to UNESCO. Jerusalem: The Center for Jewish Art, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007.
Hatzimichali, Angeliki. The Greek Folk Costume. Greece: Benaki Museum, 1977.
Online collection of the ritual objects from the E. Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute is available here: http://cbj.jhi.pl/collections/964689