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Torah binder
Torah binder

Torah binder

1736
Medium/TechniqueLinen plain weave, embroidered with silk and gold thread, gold sequins, and glass beads.
Dimensions8” x 124”
Credit LineGift of Evelyn Megerman in memory of her parents, Lilli and Alfred Rahn
Accession number2019.12
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InscriptionsEmbroidered in Hebrew: "Moses, son of Rabbi Isaac called Itzhak - may he live long and happy days - was born to good luck (with mazal Tov) 8 Av 5496 (16 July 1736). May God raise him to Torah, Huppah (marriage canopy) and good deeds. Amen…”ProvenanceBy 1937, Lilli Bechmann Rahn (b. 1911 – d. 1970), Furth, Germany and Denver, CO [see note]; 1970, to her daughter, Evelyn Rahn Megerman, Waltham, MA; 2019, gift of Evelyn Megerman to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 20, 2019)

NOTE: Alfred and Lilli Rahn fled National Socialist Germany in 1939, shipping their belongings, including this Torah Binder, to the United States in 1937. It had probably been inherited by Lilli Rahn from a member of her family.