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Sarah and Miriam Yellin
19th Century
Sarah Yellin (1840s–1901) was born in Baghdad and came to Ottoman Palestine around 1855. She married Yehoshua Yellin, the son of Polish immigrants, and the couple had at least five children, including Miriam (b. 1874) and the prominent Yishuv educator, scholar, and politician David Yellin.
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Mazal Tov Eliyahu Ezra Challah Cover
This beautiful, embroidered challah cover was made in Jerusalem around the year 1890 as a gift of thanks to “the gentlelady Mazal Tov Eliyah Ezra.” It is signed at the bottom by a mother and daughter…