Obj. ID: 10859
Sacred and Ritual Torah mantle, Thessaloniki, Thessaly (?)
The trapezoid Torah mantle comprises a cloak attached to a round top, and has a vertical back opening.
Three variations of a foliate stem pattern are scattered all over the cloak.
The round top has two openings for the Torah staves. A fringed strip surrounds the top, the bottom edges and the openings.
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
The Torah mantle is made up of a piece of cloth adjusted as a secondary use to the trapezoid shape.
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Object Detail
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Date
late 19th century
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Material / Technique
Silk, cotton, metal threads
Cloth: purple silk satin
Lining: cotton in even twill
Decoration: gold threads in laid and couched embroidery
Foundation: cardboard
Inscription: none
Additions: machine-made fringed band
Cloth: purple silk satin
Lining: cotton in even twill
Decoration: gold threads in laid and couched embroidery
Foundation: cardboard
Inscription: none
Additions: machine-made fringed band
Material Stucture
Material Decoration
Material Bonding
Material Inscription
Material Additions
Material Cloth
Material Lining
Tesserae Arrangement
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Measurements
Height: 630 mm
Width: 1000 mm
Diameter: 800 mm
Width: 1000 mm
Diameter: 800 mm
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Condition
Intact
Extant
Documented by CJA
Surveyed by CJA
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Present Usage Details
Condition of Building Fabric
Architectural Significance type
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
Significance Rating
0
Ornamentation
Custom
Contents
Codicology
Scribes
Script
Number of Lines
Ruling
Pricking
Quires
Catchwords
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
Coin
Coin Series
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Signature
Colophon
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Decoration Program
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
The Torah mantle is part of a collection of ritual objects confiscated by the Nazis from the Greek Jews, when they were deported toAuschwitzduring World War II.
This mantle was handed over to the Jewish Historic Institute (JHI) in 1949 fromTorun, a city in northernPoland, where the Nazis had concentrated the ritual objects from different places, mainly fromPoland.
Main Surveys & Excavations
Sources
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)
Juhasz, Esther, “Arigim ve-rekamot ba-bayit u-ve-veit ha-keneset”, In Yehudei Sepharad Ba-Imperia Ha-Ottomanit, ed. Esther- Juhasz, ( Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1989), 64-119 (In Hebrew)
Juhasz, Esther, “The Material Culture of Sephardic Jews in the Western Ottoman Empire, (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries) In The Jews of the Ottoman Empire, ed. Avigdor Levy ( Princeton: The Institute of Turkish Studies, 1994), 575-583.
Type
Documenter
Tal Vogel | 09.93
Author of description
Ariella Amar | 01.10
Architectural Drawings
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Computer Reconstruction
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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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