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Honorata Foa
17th Century
Honorata Foa, the wife of Simon Foa, was a Jewish woman living in Italy in the seventeenth century who embroidered a Torah binder for a son or grandson.
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Torah Binder
This Torah binder is one of the earliest examples from Italy. The binder (also known as a wimpel) was intended to accompany the male child through his lifetime, through the stages of his circumcision…