Purim
19 Archival description results for Purim
Minutes, reports, financial documents, letters, ?Sue Hastings and Her Marionettes? play advertisement 1935, Purim song sheet (songs in English and Yiddish)
Item is one scroll case and stand made out of silver from the nineteenth Century Turkey or Germany. The case features a Rococo style floral ornamentation on a pointillism ground, with one carved ivory handle. The case was made to house a scroll depicting the story of Esther in classic Sephardic script, with an illustrated water colour border. The paper scroll megillah was a recent addition.
Date and holiday taken from front of photograph (written in blue ink along top). (Partial) Identification given by donor: (back row unidentified; from left to right seated) donor's grandparents Charles and Jean, unidentified, "sister in law", Mary (Pet), Bennie, Willie, Louis Rudner (standing), Edith Rostoker-Rudner.