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Obj. ID: 1444
  Sacred and Ritual
  Torah mantle (Late 19th cen, Salonika)

© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Radovan, Zev, 1992

The trapezoid Torah mantle comprises a cloak attached to a round top. It has a vertical back opening, 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
  1. The Torah mantle is a secondary use of a cushion cover, adjusted to be a mantle.
Remarks

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Name/Title
Object Detail
Monument Setting
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Date
Late 19th century
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Artist/ Maker
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Historical Origin
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Languages of inscription
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Shape / Form
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Material / Technique
Cotton, metal threads
Cloth: dark red cotton velvet
Lining: pink uneven twill, white cotton tabby
Decoration: gold threads in laid and couched embroidery
Foundation: cardboard
Inscription: none
Additions: machine-made band
Material Stucture
Material Decoration
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Material Cloth
Material Lining
Tesserae Arrangement
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Measurements
Height: 80 cm
Width: 103 cm
Diameter: 26 cm
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Condition

Intact

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
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
Scribal Notes
Watermark
Hallmark
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Binding
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Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance

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 (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
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