- Object Name:
- Torah Shield
- Place Made:
- Ródhos (?) (Greece)
- Date:
- 1859/60 (date of inscription)
- Medium:
- Silver: chased and pierced
- Dimensions:
- 14 5/8 × 11 × 3/4 in. (37.1 × 27.9 × 1.9 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Purchase: Docents of the Jewish Museum through the Nash Aussenberg Memorial Fund
- Accession Number:
- 1991-124
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This Torah shield was dedicated to the Kahal Gadol Synagogue of Rhodes by Michael Hayyim David Soriano. The shield was probably once a mirror-back. Since superstition dictated that mirrors be turned to face the wall when not in use, Ottoman mirror-backs were often lavishly decorated. The Jewish Museum also owns a matching Torah Shield (1992-94) dedicated to the same synagogue by the same donor.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.