Many Jewish art treasures will be included in an exhibition of the art of six nations which will be opened on Monday next at the International Art Galleries, in aid of the Invalid Children’s Association. Mr. Lionel de Rothschild and Mrs. M. S. Salomon are among the honorary organisers of the exhibition, the others including the Marchioness of Hartington, the Marchioness of Titchfield and the Viscountess Scarsdale. Miss M. Jessel is Honorary Secretary.
Mr. Salomon’s collection, which will be for the first time open for view to the general public, is valued at £600,000, and includes some sixteen hundred exhibits of Torah crowns and candlesticks for Chanukah and Sabbath, worked in gold and silver and decorated with precious stones, lamps and incense burners, Torah pointers and Kiddush cups. Some of the illuminated prints and Bible bindings and prayer books are stated to be the only copies still in existence, and come from Spain and Holland dating back to the sixteenth century.
The “Apollo” Art Journal writes: To most people it will come as a surprise that there is such a thing as Jewish Art at all, or ever was, the prevailing notion being that the Jewish faith forbade the making of images or the representation of human forms, nor do they know that there are in use many ritual articles which can vie for beauty age and preciousness with any used in the services of the Christian Chum…Mr. Salomon’s Judaic a, which he hopes will ultimately find a home in a national museum in Palestine, are not to be seen easily, the “Manchester Guardian” says, and his exhibition is an opportunity not to be missed.
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