Obj. ID: 39224
Sacred and Ritual Objects Shabbat and Holiday Challah Cover, Jerusalem, circa 1925
The following description was prepared by William Gross:
Such printed textiles were made as souvenirs, as gifts from Jerusalem institutions for their supporters abroad and directly as ritual items. Such cloths are to be found in virtually every country in which Jews reside, having been sent their by institutions or as souvenirs. The iconographic scheme usually centered around images of the Holy Sites with other Jewish symbols. The textiles were printed on a variety of fabrics ranging from simple cotton to silk. They were usually textiles either for the Pesach Seder table or for use on Shabbat and Holidays as challah covers with the appropriate prayers of the Kiddush of that event. The earliest examples, yet from the 19th century, were produced by the famous printers of that period in Jerusalem.
This is a nicely-printed example of a cloth for the blessings on Shabbat and holidays. The publisher and bookstore owner, Mendel Friedman, has had several items printed that are in the Gross Family Collection. While this example is printed on dark blue cloth, there are another two identical cloths in light orange and white, Gross Family Collection 004.015.014 and 015. Only some of the illustrations are different. Inscription: Lichvod Shabbat ve-Yom Tov
sub-set tree:
M | Menorah
H | Holy and other places in the Land of Israel | Holy Tombs | Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes (the miracle maker), Tomb of, in Tiberias
J | Jerusalem | Sites in Jerusalem: | Western Wall (Kotel) הכותל המערבי
T | Temple Mount
J | Jerusalem
H | Holy and other places in the Land of Israel | Holy Tombs | Zechariah the Prophet, Tomb of
H | Holy and other places in the Land of Israel | Holy Tombs | Absalom's Tomb
J | Jerusalem | Zion, Holy City עיה'ק ציון
H | Holy and other places in the Land of Israel | Cities | The Four Holy Cities | Safed צפת
H | Holy and other places in the Land of Israel | Holy Tombs | Rachel's Tomb
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