This post comes to us from Assistant Curator Nadine Shatzkes. On behalf of the Museum, we'd like to wish the artifact lenders a very hearty Mazel Tov!
Periodically some of the artifacts on display in the Core Exhibition of the Museum are temporarily returned to families to be used in celebration of important family rituals and events. On Monday, January 11, staff members from the Department of Collections and Exhibitions deinstalled such a “living artifact.”
A beautiful bris cloth, on loan from the family of Rose Abovitz Takce and Jacob Boltax, has been on display in the Life Cycle case since June 2007. Rose Abovitz Takce embroidered the cloth in Russia in 1904 for the circumcision ceremony of her son David. Her father, Chaim Abovitz, stenciled the Hebrew for her. Her descendants continue to use the cloth upon the birth of sons. It has been removed from display and returned to the family upon the birth of a boy. The textile will return to the Museum for reinstallation after the bris.
Periodically some of the artifacts on display in the Core Exhibition of the Museum are temporarily returned to families to be used in celebration of important family rituals and events. On Monday, January 11, staff members from the Department of Collections and Exhibitions deinstalled such a “living artifact.”
A beautiful bris cloth, on loan from the family of Rose Abovitz Takce and Jacob Boltax, has been on display in the Life Cycle case since June 2007. Rose Abovitz Takce embroidered the cloth in Russia in 1904 for the circumcision ceremony of her son David. Her father, Chaim Abovitz, stenciled the Hebrew for her. Her descendants continue to use the cloth upon the birth of sons. It has been removed from display and returned to the family upon the birth of a boy. The textile will return to the Museum for reinstallation after the bris.
*Photo of family member Jason W. Greenspan with the textile at his bris in 1974.
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