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© Dagmara Budzioch, Photographer: Budzioch, Dagmara, 11.2015, Negative/Photo. No. M002899.
Name/Title
JMNY Shalom Italia Engraved Esther Scroll with Lions | Unknown
Object Detail
Date
1640s
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction dates
Artist/ Maker
Italia (d'Italia), Shalom ben Mordecai (engraver in Amsterdam)
(Engraver)
{"2322":"ca. 1619, Mantova \u2013 1655 or 1664) was one of the most creative Jewish artists of the 17th century. After he left Italy, he settled in Amsterdam in 1641, where he was active for just over a decade; later he returned to his home country. During his stay in Amsterdam, he designed borders for two printed ketubbot, engraved portraits of a few eminent Jewish personalities, and created several lavishly decorated engraved and hand-drawn borders for Esther scrolls, most of which are based on architectural frames and motifs."}
Historical Origin
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Community
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Location
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Site
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School/Style
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Period
Period Detail
Category
Material/Technique
Ink on parchment
Material Stucture
Material Decoration
Material Bonding
Material Inscription
Material Additions
Material Cloth
Material Lining
Tesserae Arrangement
Density
Colors
Construction material
Measurements
Height
Length
Width
Depth
Circumference
Thickness
Diameter
Weight
Axis
Panel Measurements
Condition

The manuscript is well preserved.

Extant
Documented by CJA
Surveyed by CJA
Present Usage
Present Usage Details
Condition of Building Fabric
Architectural Significance type
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
Significance Rating
Description
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
Signature
Colophon
Scribal Notes
Watermark
Trade Mark
Binding
Decoration Program
Summary and Remarks
History/Provenance

The scroll belonged to the private collection of a merchant from Danzig, Lesser (Eliezer) Gieldzinski (Giełdziński) that arrived in New York in the summer of 1939. See e.g. Izabella Rejduch-Samkowa, Lesser Giełdziński – pierwszy kolekcjoner i organizator Muzeum Żydowskiego w Gdańsku, [in:] Żydzi i judaizm we współczesnych badaniach polskich. Materiał z konferencji, t. 1, red. K. Pilarczyk, S. Gąsiorowski, Kraków 1995, pp. 383–393. 

Main Surveys & Excavations
Bibliography

Danzig 1939: Treasures of a Destroyed Community, red. S. Schwartz, Detroit 1980, pp. 80-81, object no. 48.

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Documenter
Dagmara Budzioch | 2021
Researcher
Dagmara Budzioch | 2021
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