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Obj. ID: 36689  Mezuzah Cover, Jerusalem, circa 2000

© Gross Family Collection, Photographer: Bar Hama, Ardon, -

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Name/Title
Mezuzah Cover | Unknown
Object
Object Detail
Date
circa 2000
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction dates
Historical Origin
Unknown
Community
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Period
Period Detail
Gross Family Collection No.
040.001.010
Material/Technique
Silver, Glass, Parchment, Formed, Written
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Material Decoration
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Extant
Documented by CJA
Surveyed by CJA
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Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
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Description

The following description was prepared by William Gross:

Yaakov Greenvurcel, an award-winning graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, creates ritual objects in his studio in Jerusalem. Greenvurcel is probably one of the most prominent artists in his field. Greenvurcel's ritual objects breathe new life into ancient forms and at the same time, each of them is designed in accordance with the Halachah (Jewish Law). Every creation is crafted to the highest finishing quality with unequaled attention to detail.

Yaakov Greenvurcel was born in Poland in 1952 and came to Israel in 1957. In 1980 he graduated with honors from the Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem. The same year he was awarded the first Shapiro Prize for Judaica, for his "Ever-Changing Menorah". Greenvurcel was chosen as one of the winners of the Art Quest 88, an art competition held in the U.S.A. In 1996, the year celebrated as the 3,000 anniversary of Jerusalem, he designed a Torah Crown, especially for the International Judaica Design Competition. It was awarded an Honorable Mention including a monetary prize. Since 1980, he has been designing contemporary Jewish ceremonial art in his studio, located at Houtzot Hayotzer (Arts & Crafts Lane) in Jerusalem. Greenvurcel's works of art have been exhibited widely and are part of many well known private and public collections in Israel and abroad, including Jewish Museum, New York; USA; Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Judisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; Judisches Museum Franken, Furth, Germany; Judisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria; Ha'aretz Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel; Maurice Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL, USA; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, USA; H.U.C. Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA; H.U.C Skirball Museum, Cincinnati, OH, USA; H.U.C Skirball Museum, N.Y, USA; B'nai B'rith Klutznick Museum, Washington, D.C., USA; The Meadows Museum, Louisiana, USA; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA. In recent years Greenvurcel had started creating functional art as well, such as vases, collectors Chess Sets, and more. 

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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
Binding
Decoration Program
Summary and Remarks
History/Provenance
Main Surveys & Excavations
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