Torah Ark Curtain

Elkana Schatz Naumberg

1724

Cloth with embroidered columns on either side, pattern in the middle, and Hebrew text between two lions and crown on top.
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Elkana Schatz Naumberg

18th Century

Elkana Schatz Naumberg of Fürth was an embroiderer in the early eighteenth century, when male Jewish embroiderers were active in southern Germany. Fürth was a center of Jewish textile art at the time.

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