La Toilette d’Esther. Neilson, Jacques de Troy, Jean Francois Gobelins. Tapestry from the 2nd half of the 18th century. Gobelins, France. YU Museum.
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Out of the Archives: Calendar Art
submitted by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History
This hand-drawn calendar card is from February 1920. The artist is Lucie Ritter Marcus (1895-1967), wife of German-Jewish lawyer Ernst Marcus. More information about the Marcuses can be found in the Leo Baeck Institute’s Ernst Marcus (Breslau) Collection, [AR 25006].
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Reading the Torah. Three men in front of Torah Ark, one using a pointer to point to text. Early 20th century. Scrap, paper, printed and embossed. Yeshiva University Museum Collections.
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Simhath Thora
Creator: Steinhardt, Jakob (1887-1968)
Medium: water color and pencil on paper
Date: 1946
Repository: The Kathryn Yochelson Collection Yeshiva University Museum