Obj. ID: 10857
Sacred and Ritual Torah mantle, Thessaloniki (Salonika), 1922
The trapezoid Torah mantle comprises a cloak attached to an oval top, with a vertical back opening. A Hebrew dedication is embroidered on its front in square filled letters, which reads:
"קודש לה'/ למדרש ספרדים יכב"ץ (יכוננה בצדק)/ לע"נ (לעילוי נשמת) נתן/ מאיר נחמיאס/ נ"ע (נוחו עדן) ש' (שנת) 5682."
Translation: "Dedicated to the Lord, and donated to the Midrash Sepharadim (Remarks: no. 1), 'may the sublime establish it in justice'. For the exaltation of the soul of Nathan Meir Nah'myias, may he rest in Eden. The year 5682 (1922)." The round top has two openings for the Torah staves. A band 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
Summary and Remarks
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 handed over to the museum in 1949 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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Name/Title
Torah mantle | *Synagogue Objects | Torah mantle
Object
Object Detail
Monument Setting
Unknown
Date
1922 (inscription)
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Material / Technique
Silk, linen, cotton
Cloth: Yellow silk brocade, white silk in tabby
Lining: linen in balanced tabby
Inscription: cotton threads in chain stitched embroidery
Additions: Cantila metal threads
Cloth: Yellow silk brocade, white silk in tabby
Lining: linen in balanced tabby
Inscription: cotton threads in chain stitched embroidery
Additions: Cantila metal threads
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Material Cloth
Material Lining
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Measurements
Height: 900 mm
Width: 490 mm
Diameter: 230 mm
Width: 490 mm
Diameter: 230 mm
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Condition
The mantle is torn at the edges.
Extant
Documented by CJA
Surveyed by CJA
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Condition of Building Fabric
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Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
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Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
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0
Ornamentation
Custom
Contents
Codicology
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Pricking
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Hebrew Numeration
Blank Leaves
Direction/Location
Façade (main)
Endivances
Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
Location of Niche
Location of Reader's Desk
Location of Platform
Temp: Architecture Axis
Arrangement of Seats
Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
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Suggested Reconstruction
History/Provenance
- 1. Midrash Sepharadim is most probably The Gerush Sepharad Synagogue, first established by the Spanish Jews who were expelled in 1492. As most synagogues in Salonika, it was burned in the fire of 1917, and was rebuilt in a new location on Ptolemeon Street (cf. Messinas. The Synagogues, p. 62, synagogue no. 10).
- 2. A collection of ritual objects was confiscated from the Greek Jews when they were transported toAuschwitzduring World War II. This Torah mantle was handed over to the Jewish Historical Institute in 1949 fromTorun, a city in northernPoland, where the Nazis had concentrated the ritual objects from different places, mainly fromPoland.
Main Surveys & Excavations
Sources
Kerem, Yitzchak, and Bracha Rivlin, "Salonika" In Pinkas Hakehillot: Encycloapedia of Jewish Communities from their Foundation till after the Holocaust: Greece. Ed. By Bracha Rivlin ( Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1998).
Messinas, Elias. The Synagogues of Salonika and Veroia. (Athens: Gavrielides Editions, 1997)
Type
Documenter
Tal Vogel | 09.93
Author of description
Ariella Amar | 01.10
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Section Head
Ariella Amar | 01.10
Language Editor
Dvora Sax | 03.10
Donor
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Object Copyright
The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw (JHI)
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