Auction 88 - Part I - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Large elegant silver filigree spice box, designed as a domed structure. Israel, [second half of the 20th century].
Silver (marked "Bezalel Jerusalem 935"), filigree.
Large box, on four elegant feet. Door at front, with three stairs leading up to it, reading "who creates the various spices" (Hebrew, from the blessing over fragrances). The sides feature each a stylized balcony; the back depicts a seven-branched lamp. The dome is set with a dark-red stone at top.
Approx. 8X10X14 cm. Good condition.
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Large, handsome etrog container. [Israel, second half of the 20th century].
Silver, filigree.
Rectangular box with four stylized feet, the sides depicting the Tablets of the Law, the Western Wall, the Tomb of Rachel and a seven-branched lamp. The lid depicts a sukkah and an etrog, surrounded by the inscription "And you shall take for yourselves on the first day, the fruit of the hadar tree, date palm fronds" (Lev 23:40).
Approx. 12X14X18 cm. Good condition.
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Miniature wood model of the orthodox synagogue in Oradea, Romania, by Avaraham Raz (1917-1993?). [Israel, ca. late 20th century].
Oradea was home to a large, thriving Jewish community, whose members were highly active in the Hungarian press and Hebrew publishing, as well as avid Zionists. The community was led by famous rabbis and torah scholars, including Rabbi Israel Aharon Landsberg and Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Hirsch Fuchs, both students of the Chatam Sofer, and later Gaavad of the Eida HaCharedi, Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Weiss. During the second half of the 19th century, as part of the Schism in Hungarian Jewry, the community split into separate Neolog and Orthodox communities. The synagogue represented by this model was built in 1890 by the Orthodox community, and having survived the Nazi occupation and communist era, was renovated and reinaugurated in 2017, since then serving the small local Jewish community.
Miniature synagogue models created by artist Avraham Raz (Roizenmann) after photographs of the original structures were exhibited in the Wolfson Museum of Jewish Art.
Height: 28 cm. Base: 17X27 cm. Good condition.
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