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Contributor:
Rötger Herfurth
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1769–1776
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Jacob Koppel Gans
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(Bavaria, Germany)
Date:
1772–1773
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Wilhelmus Angenendt
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1809
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Johann Valentin Schüler
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1680–1720
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The kapporet is a short curtain, a valance, hung over the curtain of the Torah ark, and first began to appear in Eastern Europe in the late seventeenth century. The griffins and crowns that appear on…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Zawichost, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Zawichost, Poland)
Date:
1700
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Contributor:
Ze’ev ben Abraham [?]
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Piotrków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland)
Date:
1766
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Moses Michael Rosenboim
Places:
Schönlanke, Kingdom of Prussia
(Trzcianka, Poland)
Date:
1848
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Torah finials are a pair of ornaments used to decorate the upper ends of the rollers on which the Torah scroll is wound. The Hebrew term rimonim, which means “pomegranates,” references the…
Contributor:
Myer Myers
Places:
Philadelphia, British America and the British West Indies
(Philadelphia, United States of America)
Date:
1776