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This Torah shield contains a rare example of a personal inscription by the silversmith, stating: “This is the work of my hands in which I take pride, Ze’ev ben Abraham [?], silversmith from Piotrków…
Contributor:
Ze’ev ben Abraham [?]
Places:
Piotrków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland)
Date:
1766
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Paper cuts have been a tradition of Jewish folk art, with the earliest record of one dating to the fourteenth century. Given the widespread availability of paper in Europe by the mid-nineteenth…
Contributor:
Moses Michael Rosenboim
Places:
Schönlanke, Kingdom of Prussia (Trzcianka, Poland)
Date:
1848