© Jewish Museum London
Two silver-cased Torah scrolls
Charles I Kandler
- Art Funded
- 1992
- Dimensions
- 1) 39.5 x 6 x 14 cm; 2) 36 x 7 x 16 cm (both when closed)
- Vendor
- United Synagogue
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.
Provenance
The Great Synagogue, Aldgate, destroyed in the Blitz, 1941.
