Jun 8
Glass, hand painted mizrah plaque from Sopronkeresztúr, Hungary.
From the collection of the Museum of Ethnography.
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Glass, hand painted mizrah plaque from Sopronkeresztúr, Hungary.
From the collection of the Museum of Ethnography.
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Mizrah form Morocco, c. 1900. ink on cut-out paper; metallic foil
Happy 1st night of #Hanukkah for those who celebrate! 🕎
Here is an equisite paper-cut mizrah featuring a menagerie of wild, domestic, and mythical animals:
Mizrah
Israel Dov Rosenbaum
1877 (date of inscription)
Podkamen (Pidkamin, Ukraine)
Paint, ink, graphite on cut-out paper
30 1/2 × 21 in. (77.5 × 53.3 cm)
The Jewish Museum, NYC, USA
“Included here are lions, deer, eagles, and what appears to be a pair of small leopards atop the dome of the central building. These four animals usually appear in Jewish papercuts to illustrate the saying "Be bold as a leopard, light as an eagle, swift as a deer, and strong as a lion, to do the will of your Father who is in Heaven" (Ethics of the Fathers 5:23). The doubled-headed eagle is often interpreted as a political symbol associated with the Russian Empire.”
[A number of other wild, domestic, and mythical animals can be found througout the composition, including various birds, deer, squirrel, unicorn, leviathan, etc]
Mizrach, Poland, 1920 CE
According to the museum: "Mizrah (Hebrew: מזרח "east") is the Hebrew word for "east" and the direction that Jews in the Diaspora face during prayer. Jewish law prescribes that Jews at prayer face the site of the Temple in Jerusalem. In addition, "Mizrach" refers to an ornamental wall plaque used to indicate the direction of prayer in Jewish homes. In a synagogue, that direction would be obvious as it is the side of the building on which the ark was placed. But in a home or Sukkah the direction had to be indicated. It is customary in traditional Jewish homes and the Sukkah to mark the wall in the direction of Mizrach to facilitate proper prayer. For this purpose, people use artistic wall plaques inscribed with the word Mizrach and scriptural passages like "From the rising (mi-mizrah) of the sun unto the going down thereof, the Lord's name is to be praised" (Ps. 113:3), Kabbalistic inscriptions, or pictures of holy places. Such plaques were most often manuscript forms or printed sheets, ranging from the simplest idea of the word only to elaborately decorated pages with a wide range of images and texts. These plaques are generally placed in rooms in which people pray, such as the living room or bedrooms. The four letters of the Hebrew word MiZRaCH are sometimes indicated as the initial letters of the Hebrew phrase Metzad Zeh Ruach Chaim (From this side the source of life).
From the imagery used, lions and griffins as well as the character of a paper cut, this Mizrach was probably printed in Galicia. It, unfortunately, appears to have been cut off at the top, but is a very rare specimen of Mizrach. The combination of a Mizrach and the Tablets of the Law is not a common one."
Shabbat shalom my friends.
Mizrah, Central Europe, late 19th century
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Mizrah, Israel Dov Rosenbaum, Podkamen, Ukraine, 1877
After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE and the dispersion of most Jews, the Land of Israel has remained a primary focus of Jewish identity. A commonly felt, deeply rooted bond to the Land of Israel and the hope of all Jews to return eventually to it have been important unifying factors. One expression of this intense bond is found in the practice of facing toward Jerusalem during prayer. For Jews in the West, this direction is east, and the custom developed of placing a decorative plaque, called a mizrah, Hebrew for "east", on the eastern walls of homes and synagogues to indicate the direction of worship. Mizrah is also an acronym composed of the initial letters for the Hebrew phrase "from this side the spirit of life."
Mizrah, Archie Granot (Israeli, b. England, 1946), Jerusalem (Israel), 1985
Rare printed mizrah, [Mantua: 17th century]
With the passage of time, the biblical practice of praying toward the Temple in Jerusalem (see I Kings 8:44, 48; II Chron. 6), later codified in the Mishnah (Berakhot 4:5) and Talmud (Berakhot 30a), gave rise to the production of decorative broadsides meant to indicate which of a building’s walls faced the proper liturgical direction. Because the Diaspora Jewish communities in which these artworks developed had settled to the west of the Land of Israel, such ornaments became popularly known as mizrah (lit., east) plaques. The present lot, featuring the word mizrah in large, flowery letters surrounded by ornate, foliate borders and hand-colored in red, is the earliest printed mizrah plaque extant.