Two silver-cased Torah scrolls

Charles I Kandler (FL. 1727 - 1773)

Jewish Museum

1766 - 1767

The scrolls were made for the Baal Shem of London, Rabbi Hayim Samuel Jacob de Falk, an Eastern European Sephardic Jew, who was a dabbler in magic, a maker of amulets and a cabbalist who used incantations to accomplish paranormal feats, such as finding lost treasure.

• Medium: silver
• Dimensions: 1) 39.5 x 6 x 14cm; 2) 36 x 7 x 16cm (both when closed)
• Art Fund Grant: £25000 ( Total: £80,000)
• ArtFunded in: 1992
• Vendor: United Synagogue

Provenance

The Great Synagogue, Aldgate, destroyed in the Blitz, 1941.

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