Torah Scroll and Case

This Hanukkah lamp from Poland is made from brass and would likely have been placed near the Torah ark in a synagogue. An engraved and cast eagle sits above a domed cupola, representing gratitude and…

Die Erschaffung des Menschen (The Creation of Man) is an illustration by Ephraim Moses Lilien for the 1902 German translation of the Yiddish poems of Morris Rosenfeld, Lieder des Ghetto (Songs of the…

This Torah shield was cast in silver in Hamburg, Germany. Partly gilt and adorned with precious stones, four crowns sit at its center, framed by symmetrical columns on either side that are encircled…