Obj. ID: 57418
  Ephemera  Day of Atonement service 1870 in the camp in Metz, Germany

This description was prepared by the team of the Kedem Auction House Jerusalem and published in the Kedem Catalogue 8 (2010), lot 2:

Black and red printing on cotton cloth, for hanging on a wall. Germany, c. 1880.

In the center of the printing, we see a large group of soldiers praying around a bima, in the Franco-Prussian War. Inscription on bottom: Yom Kippur services, 1871, in the camp overlooking Metz".

In the four corners, there is a German song, and on top – words in Hebrew from the liturgy: "We all have one Father, One G-d Who created us", and pictures of angels.

Hebrew and German.

Approx. 68x65 cm, in a wooden frame of 75.5x79. Fair condition. Sewn onto cloth. Slightly torn at edges, stained in the center and on top. Not checked out of frame.