Obj. ID: 1444
Sacred and Ritual Objects Torah mantle (Late 19th cen, Salonika)
The trapezoid Torah mantle comprises a cloak attached to a round top. It has a vertical back opening (fig. 1), and is decorated with four central vertical foliate patterns set against a starry and flowery background. A scrolling stem runs along the edges.
The round top has two openings for the Torah staves. A band surrounds the top and the 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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Torah mantle | *Synagogue Objects | Torah mantle
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Date
1875-1899?
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Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
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0
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Façade (main)
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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. 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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Sources
• Amar, Ariella, and Irina Chernetsky. Jewish Art in Greece: The Collection of the Jewish Museum of Greece. Jerusalem: The Center for Jewish Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, May 2007. Internal publication. • 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. by Avigdor Levy, 575-583. Princeton: The Institute of Turkish Studies, 1994. • Juhasz, Esther. “Arigim ve-rekamot ba-bayit u-ve-veit ha-keneset.” In Yehudei Sepharad Ba-Imperia Ha-Ottomanit. Ed. by Esther Juhasz, 64-119. Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1989. In Hebrew.
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Object Copyright
The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw (JHI)
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