Obj. ID: 55587
Jewish printed books  Avraham Rachimah Yitshak 'Akidah Ya'akov Shalima, Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár, Klausenburg), circa 1930

The following description was prepared by William Gross:

Decorations for the Succah, the temporary holiday structure erected outside with an open roof, were and are a regular feature of the Succot holiday. Most examples of such broadsides existing from the 18th and the first half of the 19th century are hand-painted. From the time of the development of economical printing in the last half of the 19th century, such decorative plaques were produced by the increasingly active printing presses using the lithograph technique. This large and very colorful example was designed by Salamon Walter in Cluj, Rumania. These images deal with seven biblical figures that are remembered during this festival, one for each day. During the weeks leading to the celebration of Succot, many such plaques appear in Jewish bookstores. Today there is a large variety of such colorful sheets available. Many of these are copies of such plaques produced in the past. Some of the illustrations, such as that for Yitzhak, are not the common ones associated with these patriarchs.