- Object Name:
- Book Cover
- Artist/Maker:
- Meir Gur-Arie
- Bio:
- Israeli, 1891-1951
- Artist/Maker:
- Ze'ev Raban
- Bio:
- b. Lodz (Poland) 1890, d. Jerusalem, Israel 1970
- Artist/Maker:
- Bezalel School
- Place Made:
- Jerusalem (Israel)
- Date:
- 1910-20
- Medium:
- Silver: acid-etched, repoussé, filigree, and granulation
- Dimensions:
- 6 5/8 × 1 3/4 × 4 3/4 in. (16.8 × 4.4 × 12.1 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim
- Accession Number:
- JM 140-47
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The Hebrew inscription on the spine, Tanakh, indicates that the cover was designed to hold a copy of the Hebrew Bible, but is here used to hold a seventeenth-century edition of the King James Bible.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.