Torah Mantle

Embroidered curtain of columns with crowns on left and right sides and decorative floral motifs throughout, and Hebrew text in top center.

Torah Curtain from Prague

This Torah ark curtain was donated to a synagogue in Prague by Leib ben Hezekiah Tausk Nagelstock and his wife Reykhl, daughter of Lemel Lichtenstadt. The composition of the curtain is stylized…

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Memoir

These high officials were not accustomed to wearing European-style shirts. When they decided to dress in the European style, they asked a certain ham, Daniel Andjel, whose shop at the Women’s Market…

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Portrait painting of seated woman facing viewer, dressed in gown, and holding flowers in both hands, with landscape in the background.

Portrait of Leonore (Rachel) de Alvaro da Costa

Leonore (Rachel) de Alvaro da Costa (1669–1749), the second wife of Don Francisco Lopes Suasso, was descended from a wealthy Portuguese New Christian family who fled the Iberian Peninsula and settled…

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