Synagogue Gallery

Jewish Samaritan High Priest and Scroll

Samaritan High Priest and the Old Abisha Pentateuch. The Samaritan Pentateuch, sometimes called Samaritan Torah is a version of the Hebrew language Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible, traditionally written in the Samaritan alphabet and used by the Samaritans. It constitutes their entire biblical canon. Samaritans attach special importance to the Abisha Scroll used in the Samaritan synagogue of Nablus - pictured on this card. Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Judaism. Torah scroll case wrapped in black. Libya, 1889

Judaism. Torah scroll case wrapped in black. Libya, 1889. Carved wood and cotton. Case: Gift of the Moshav movement, through Rabbi Menahem Hacohen and Bracha Yaniv, Survey of Synagogues, The Center for Jewish Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Wrapper: Gift or Dr. Naouri from the Synagogue of Tripoli, Rome. Israel Museum. Jerusalem

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France. Par?=?s. Notre Dame cathedral. Portal of St. Anne. S

France. Par?=?s. Notre Dame cathedral. Portal of St. Anne. Synagogue. AllegorycaI statue depicted with his eyes covered, her crown falling on the floor, the tables of the law reversed, falling from his hand, and holds a banner of Judaism, which is broken. The dejected pose try to suggest defeat

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