Seder Plate Richard Fishman (b. 1941) Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 1977 Cast silver, onyx B’nai B’rith Klutznick Collection, Gift of Joseph H. and Olga Hirshhorn Used during the celebration of Pesach, or Passover, a Seder plate displays the foods used to tell the story of Passover. Foods traditionally included on the Seder plate are [...]
Etrog Container France or Germany, 19th century Silver, carved coconut shell B’nai B’rith Klutznick Collection of the Skirball Museum The Festival of Sukkot, a seven-day Thanksgiving festival, takes place four days after Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Sukkot is one of Judaism’s harvest festivals and is often celebrated with various ceremonies, such as Consecration, [...]
Elijah Cup Robert Lipnick Ceramic United States, 1991 B’nai B’rith Klutznick Collection of the Cincinnati Skirball Museum Cups for Elijah are used ceremoniously during Pesach, or Passover, a seven-day festival that marks the beginning of spring and recalls the exodus of the Jews from Egypt. During this holiday seders, meaning order, which retell the story [...]
Hanukkah Lamp Morocco, 18th century Cast and pierced bronze B’nai B’rith Klutznick Collection of the Cincinnati Skirball Museum; donated by Dr. Leanore K. Feine; gift of Joseph B. and Olyn Horowitz In North Africa–Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia–Chag haBanot or Festival of the Daughters is celebrated during Hanukkah. The festival occurs on Rosh Hodesh Tevet (a [...]
Three-piece Havdalah Set Ludwig Wolpert (1900-1981) Sterling silver New York, 1955 Abram and Frances Kanof Collection of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick Collection of the Cincinnati Skirball Museum Born in Hildesheim, Germany in 1900, Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert studied at the School for Arts and Crafts in Frankfurt-on-Main until 1920 where he specialized in metalwork. After [...]
Pesach Chaim Gross (1904-1991) United States Lithograph, 1968 Passover, or Pesach, is a seven-day festival that marks the beginning of spring and recalls the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt. The Passover seder, meaning order, retells the story of the exodus from Egypt and rich symbolism appears throughout. The Passover seder is modeled after the ancient Greek symposia, [...]
Moses Candelabrum Benno Elkan (Dortmund, Germany 1877—London, England 1960) Bronze, h. 18 x w. 17 in. London, England 1955 Cincinnati Skirball Museum, given in honor of A. Edgar and Alice B. Aub by their children, Mary Alice Borg, A. Edgar Aub, Jr., and Claire A. Bedolis, 1981, 27.128. Recently, a set of letters surfaced [...]
Shofar - Ram's Horn Germany, 1780 Etched and cut-out horn, l. 13 ½ in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum Collection, gift of Joseph B. and Olyn Horwitz This 18th century German shofar is inscribed with the Hebrew words of Psalm 81:4-5: “Blow up the horn in the new moon, in [...]
Hanukkah Lamp Ludwig Wolpert (1900-1981) Brass Jerusalem, ca. 1950 Signed in Hebrew “Wolpert Jerusalem” and in English “Israel” Cincinnati Skirball Museum, B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum Collection, gift of Abram Kanof This Hanukkah lamp was made by German-born Ludwig Wolpert (1900-1981) who studied sculpture and metalwork in Frankfurt before immigrating to Mandate Palestine in [...]
Torah Finials Carl Bitzel (1749-1823) Silver: repoussé, pierced, engraved, and cast; 18 1/16” inches/ 18 ¼” x diameter 4.92” inches Augsburg (Germany) 1803 B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum Collection of the Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Joseph B. and Olyn Horwitz, 2015.17.430 a & b There is a long artistic tradition of embellishing the [...]
