Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Tallit gadol, a prayer shawl worn by a Jewish male during morning prayers, given to Max Haber in the American zone in Munich, Germany in July 1946.
- Date
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received:
1946 July
received: 1946
- Geography
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received:
Munich (Germany)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Max Haber
Physical Details
- Classification
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Jewish Art and Symbolism
- Category
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Jewish ceremonial objects
- Object Type
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Tallitot (Jewish liturgical objects) (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Large, rectangular, white cloth shawl with matching sets of vertical black and white woven stripes of varying width repeated on each short end; the ends are finished with short white knotted fringe. Tzitzit, white twined and knotted tassels, are inserted near each corner which has been reinforced with a square patch of cloth on the reverse.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The tallit was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by Max Haber.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-08-08 15:26:42
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The collection consists of 2 tallitot.
Date: 1946
Tallit katan
Object
Tallit katan, a small Jewish prayer shawl given to a Jewish man in the orthodox kibbutz in Katovice. Given to Max Haber, June 1946, Katowice, Poland.
