Parochet

This Torah curtain (parochet) has ornamental and floral applications. Above, the abbreviation for Keter Torah (Crown of the Torah) can be seen. The Hebrew inscription includes the Hebrew year and place of the Jewish community, Yergen, a Hebrew name for Svätý Jur, a small town in western Slovakia near Bratislava. In German it was called Sankt Georgen, and in Hungarian Szentgyörgy. It became known in the Jewish world when religious authority and fierce defender of Orthodoxy Moshe Schick served here as a rabbi in 1838-1868, before he moved to Chust in Ruthenia.

Svätý Jur

1905/1906

HEB

976 XIII-51

velvet, cotton, brocade, golden metal thread, bells

131 x 193 cm

This is a donation by the esteemed Mr. Joel Neumann, may his light shine, together with his wife Madam Rikla, may she live, the esteemed Mr. Jeshayahu Markstein, may his light shine, together with his wife Mrs. Rivka, may she live, for the holy community Yergen in the year 666 of the minor reckoning.

Borský, Maroš - Švanterová, Jana et al.: The Jews of Bratislava and Their Heritage. Bratislava : Jewish Heritage Foundation - Menorah 2012, p. 86.