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    Title

  • Handpainted challah cover

  • Physical Description

    1 challah cover : acrylic on fabric ; 16.5" x 20" ; 41.9 x 51 cm

  • Date

    undated

  • Summary

    Cloth has red and gold flowers painted in the corners. In the center two menorahs flank a Star of David. Genesis 1,31, ” And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day” written across the top; and Genesis 2,1, “And the heaven and the earth were finished, and all the host of them” written across the bottom in Hebrew.

  • Subject

    Bread, Religious aspects; Fasts and feasts, Judaism; Magen David; Twentieth century

  • Medium

    Hallah covers; Ceremonial textiles

  • Part Of

    Steven Schwarzschild Collection, AR 25376

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Challah covers are used to cover challah loaves (braided bread) on the table during Shabbat and other Jewish holidays.

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Citation

Handpainted challah cover, Leo Baeck Institute, 2009.036.