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Selected Images from the Exhibition
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Selected Jewish-American Cookbooks
Scrap Book Album, 1930 Engagement and Marriage of Selma Doris Jaffe to Samuel Brody A comprehensive album of personal letters, photographs, documentation of the engagement, wedding and honeymoon, including objects from Florida hotels, etc. A marvelous treasure of its time! Gift of Norman Brody
Five Selected images of the Ten Commandments Tinned copper tray, mid-20th century Moses and the Ten Commandments Bronze Sculpture Military Plaque Folk Art Plaque, circa late 19th or early 20th century Click for more information
Yahrzeit Records – Metal File Box Oxford Circle Jewish Community Center, Philadelphia, PA Arranged according to the months of the Jewish calendar, these 3x5 cards contain the annual memorial dates (Yahrzeit) for deceased members of this, now closed, Philadelphia synagogue so that the memorial prayer, the Kaddish, could be recited on the proper date
Passover Haggadah, 1928 "With a revised English translation and copious notes by Dr. Joseph Loewy and Joseph Guens" Illustrations: M. Kunstadt Publisher: Joseph Schlesinger for the Talmud Torah (located at Malgasse 16, Vienna) Inscribed: The board of directors of the "Talmud Torah" Public School in Vienna extend their heartiest congratulations on the engagement of Miss Violet Zeida Pataky to Mr. Bernard R. Sherman Gift of Estelle and David Steinberg, 2003
Torah Scroll, circa early 20th century Sephardi Torah Tik, Probably from Iraq According to the custom of Eastern Jewish communities the Torah is read from an upright position as can be seen in this traditional Sephardi Torah Tik (case).
Antique Hebrew/English Typewriter United States, early 20th century Maker: Hammond Multiplex-Hebrew Typewriter Logo: For all Nations and Tongues Registration number: R231468 Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Brown
Omer Calendar Ceremonial Calendar, early 20th century Silver, parchment and ink This secular desk calendar was adapted for reuse as a ceremonial Jewish object. The Hebrew word Yom (today) is scratched on the front and the traditional plaque Ten Commandments is seen on the back. The calendar was used to count the passage of days between Passover and Shavuot.
New Year’s Card 19^th century diorama fold The widespread custom of sending Jewish New Year's cards dates to the Middle Ages and predates Christian New Year's cards, popular in Europe and the United States only since the 19th century. The Jewish custom is first mentioned in a 14th century book by the spiritual leader of German Jewry. German rabbis recommended that letters sent during the month of Elul, the month prior to the High Holydays, should open with the blessing "May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year." Click for more information
Print *COHEN* *To Serve the Common Interest* In Honor of Philadelphia Councilman David Cohen Bread and Roses Community Fund Artist: Sam Maitin Gift of Lilyan Maitin and Family, 2010 Haggadah, 1944 April 7, 1944 – U.S. Army Persian Gulf Command Chaplain: David Rubin, Magid: Sgt. Hunter Galloway, Koray: Sgt. Milton Brown With full service and complete menu Gift of Andy Brookman (daughter of Emanuel Sufrin) 2009 Click for more information *Sheindele di Chazenta* Curator’s Note: It is a relatively recent development that women have been able to become professional pulpit cantors. Jeanne Gornish, the daughter of a cantor, as Shaindele, became a public entertainer instead, and is believed to be the first woman to perform Jewish liturgical music in this country. Today, women cantors are an accepted and valued part of Jewish liturgical and synagogue life. Gift of Norman Brody, 2010
Marriage Contract, 1893 Isfahan, Persia *The groom: Shlomo ben Yeshua* *The bride: Parcha Bat Moshe* Date: Nisan, 5653 (1893) Curator’s Note: Elaborately decorated Ketubbot (marriage contracts) became especially fashionable among Sephardi Jewish communities. They were symbols of status and wealth, not unlike Alaskan totem poles
Collage, 9x12 *Sidon, 2011 Artist: Linda Nesvisky ………passages from a poem to me written by my husband* while he was a soldier on the front in the Israeli Lebanese War.
Painting, 2007 *Lowest of the Low* Watercolor, gouache and ink on paper Artist: Phil Blank Museum purchase from the exhibition: You People: Phil Blank Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, Spring 2008 Curator’s Note: Klezmer (Yiddish) is a musical tradition of the Ashkenazic Jews of Eastern Europe. The word comes from two Hebrew words, Klay (vessel) and Zemer (music/song). Klezmorim are the musicians. In Lowest of the Low artist Phil Blank displays an idiosyncratic view of the tradition. Click here for an enlarged view of the text
Advertisement, circa 1950s Buxton Music Collection *“This Passover You can be a Lipton’s Tea Lover Like Me”,* Mollie Picon
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