IMPORTANT JUDAICA ANTIQUE AND MODERN
Lot 38:
A RARE AND IMPORTANT SILVER TORAH CROWN
Tarnograd, Poland, c. 1880. The lower part is decorated with two lions flanking a cartouche. Upper and lower borders are intertwining C-scroll designs. Further decorated with stags, birds and a duck. Fitted with two plain ribs and four outwardly facing lions that support a crown shaped midsection on which six stags hold up a smaller filigree crown decorated with applied turquoise. The cartouche is inscribed: THIS WAS DONATED BY THE SOCIETY OF WEAVERS IN TARNOGRAD IN THE YEAR 1880 (?). Founded in 1567 the first Jews settled in Tarnograd in 1567, however it first became legal for Jews to settle there in 1580. Soon after the synagogue, beis medrash, mikvah and Rabbi’s home were established. By the 1850’s there were 1668 Jews (44% of the population) and by 1906 there were 3,733 (51%). During World War II the nazi’s destroyed all of the Jewish community’s facilities except the main synagogue. In 1942 the Nazi’s liquidated the ghetto and murdered 1,500 Jewish on the road the Biszcza The remaining Jewish residents were transported to the death camp in Be?‚??yce. Tarongrad is located 314 kilometers south of Warsaw and 105 kilometers south of Lublin and 136 miles east of Lvov. 10.2â€? tall. Losses and old repairs.
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