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1. Large white wool tallit with blue stripes well-used by a Polish Jewish elder
Object | Accession Number: 2004.406.2
Date:
use: 1902-1964 November 10
2. Burgundy velvet shofar cover with a floral border and tassels saved by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1993.22.2.2
Date:
emigration: 1938
3. Megillat, Book of Esther, scroll handwritten by a sofer for Isaac Ossowski
1992.8.25 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.25
Date:
use: 1910-1938
emigration: 1938
Title:
Megillat Ester
4. Black yarmulke used by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.5
Date:
use: after 1938
5. Megillat, Book of Esther, scroll handwritten by a sofer for Isaac Ossowski
1992.8.24_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.24
Date:
use: 1910-1943
emigration: 1938
Title:
Megillat Ester
6. Pair of tefillin with blue velvet bag used by a Jewish refugee
1992.8.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.17 a-c
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: 1900-1943
7. Tefillin worn by a Lithuanian Jewish man in hiding
1990.251.1.3 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 1990.251.1.3
Date:
use: approximately 1900-1967
8. Embroidered blue tefillin bag carried by a Lithuanian Jewish man in hiding
1990.251.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.251.1.1
Date:
use: approximately 1900-1967
9. Embroidered purple tallit bag used by two Hungarian rabbis
1990.245.6_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.6 a
Date:
received: 1923 December 06
use: 1923 December 06-1952 March 29
10. Ritual slaughter instrument set: 3 knives, 3 cases, 2 whetstones, a bag, a band, and 4 cloths used by a shochet
1992.8.39_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.39 a-n
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938
11. Black yarmulke used by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.6
Date:
use: after 1938
12. Monogrammed bag for storing a prayer shawl saved by a German Jewish refugee
1993.22.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.22.1
Date:
emigration: 1938
13. Black velvet tefillin pouch embroidered BG rescued after Kristallnacht and recovered postwar
2004.576.2 back
Object | Accession Number: 2004.576.2
Date:
use: before 1938 November 09
recovered: after 1945 May
14. Hanukkah menorah with fish shaped feet that was used in the Tarnow Ghetto
1991.82.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.82.1
Date:
use: 1941 March-1943 September
manufacture: 1910-1941
15. Ritual slaughter knife with a wooden case used by a shochet
1992.8.33_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.33 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938
16. Pair of small tefillin brought to the United States by Nisson Bespaloff or a family member
Object | Accession Number: 2017.694.5 a-b
Date:
use: 1901-1946
17. Calligraphy of a graveside Kaddish created by a sofer [scribe]
1992.8.35 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.35
Date:
creation: approximately 1930-1933
emigration: 1938
Artwork Title:
Kaddish
18. Blue velvet bimah cover desecrated during Kristallnacht
Object | Accession Number: 2006.496.2
Date:
received: 1945-1947
use: 1938 November 09
19. Pair of Sabbath candlesticks with wax reservoirs owned by a Jewish refugee
1992.8.28 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.28 a-d
Date:
use: approximately 1910-1938
emigration: 1938
20. White kittel used by Rabbi Ferenc Hevesi on High Holidays
1990.245.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.14 a-b
Date:
use: 1922-1952