Mizrach and Yahrzeit sign : manuscript

Contributor:

Weksman, Woolf (artist)

Name:

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Timespan:

19th century

Date:

1878

Description:

Combined Mizrach and yahrzeit poster, drawn in ink and colored and shaded in gouache; Hebrew letters written in a square script; some text vocalized. The tradition of creating Mizrach signs and posters in American synagogues can be seen with surviving examples in Kleeblatt, Norman L. The Jewish heritage in American folk art (New York, 1984).

Identifier:

2025.01.19.00004; {76BACA77-390B-4B82-9714-CC20248F2F19}; 1.41

Language:

Hebrew

Provenance:

Formerly sold at Sotheby's New York (Important Judaica, 22 December 2015) lot 76.; Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan from Legacy Judaica (Lakewood, N.J.), November 2024; collectify 2025.01.19.00004; {76BACA77-390B-4B82-9714-CC20248F2F19}; 1.41 .; Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- donor.; Kaplan, Deanne, donor.

Subject:

Synagogues; Yahrzeit; Manuscripts, Hebrew -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century -- Specimens

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); Paintings; Watercolors; Manuscripts; Commemorative works; gouaches (paintings); calligraphy (visual works); signs (declatory or advertising artifacts); pen and wash drawings; pen and ink drawings

Physical Description:

1 sheet : paper, illuminations, gouache, ink; 75 x 60 cm

Related Place:

United States -- New York -- New York

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Hebrew.; Jewish artist, originally from Suvalk (today Suwałki, Poland), emigrated to New York circa 1875; surname spelling from Sotheby's (Polish birth records list variants Waksman, Wexman, Weksmann, and more; romanized Zeʼev Ṿolf Ṿaḳsman).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Arc Ms 56 item 14 OS Mapcase Drawer 24