Torah scroll
1 media/000 10a_thumb.jpg 2020-08-15T16:00:24-07:00 Queens College Special Collections and Archives e5d75124350046eec0e648a38e4b73292f02c4b0 37713 4In Romaniote synagogues and in many other North African and Middle Eastern congregation scrolls of the Torah (the Five Books of Moses) are kept in hard cases called tiks, usually of wood covered with metal or leather. When opened, this tik reveals decoration of the Ten Commandments. This is one of the three Torah scrolls at Kehila Kedosha Janina that can from Ioannina. The scroll that was brought for the dedication of the synagogue in 1927 is in the large silver case. In the 1980s four scrolls in tiks were stolen and only two were recovered. One was replaced by the creation of a new scroll sponsored by the synagogue brotherhood. One tik is left empty to remember the scrolls that were lost.
In Romaniote synagogues and in many other North African and Middle Eastern congregation scrolls of the Torah (the Five Books of Moses) are kept in hard cases called tiks, usually of wood covered with…
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Queens College Special Collections and Hellenic American Project
circa 1999-2010
Vincent Giordano Collection on the Greek-Jewish Community in New York City and Ioannina, Greece
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Lower East Side, (New York, N.Y.)
Giordano, Vincent
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Queens College Special Collections and Archives
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In Romaniote synagogues and in many other North African and Middle Eastern congregations scrolls of the Torah (the Five Books of Moses) are kept in hard cases called tiks, usually of wood covered with metal or leather. When opened, this tik reveals decoration of the Ten Commandments. This is one of the three Torah scrolls at Kehila Kedosha Janina that came from Ioannina. The scroll that was brought for the dedication of the synagogue in 1927 is in the large silver case. In the 1980s four scrolls in tiks were stolen and only two were recovered. One was replaced by the creation of a new scroll sponsored by the synagogue brotherhood. One tik is left empty to remember the scrolls that were lost.
