Ceremonial Objects

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A brown velvet tefillin (phylacteries) bag with embroidery on the front and back. One side has red, yellow, blue, and green chain and buttonhole stitched flowers. The second side is embroidered with running and back stitches to form a Star of David with flowers in each of the triangles. There is a monogram in the center of the star. The drawstring closure is a red grosgrain ribbon stitched on by hand with blue embroidery floss. Originally belonged to the Kern Family.

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A wine colored velvet prayer shawl (tallit - Sephardic pronunciation, tallis - Ashkenazic pronunciation) bag. Inside is lined with gray cotton fabric. The top folds down to close, but there is no clasp or drawstring. The front embroidery has two golden lions, Keter Elyon, Star of David and ''tallit'' (in Hebrew) under the star. Gold and off-white flowers are embroidered on the front as well. Originally belonged to Max Rosenthal.

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A burgundy velvet tefillin (phylacteries) bag with flap that folds down to close. The lining is a green/gray cotton. Originally belonged to Ostrover Shul (Synagogue).

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A velvet burnt orange tefillin (phylacteries) bag with off-white cotton inner lining. A hand-embroidered Star of David on front of the bag with ''tefillin'' (in Hebrew) written inside the star are embroidered in dark yellow on the front of the bag. Underneath the star is a blue embroidered laurel and another dark yellow embroidered flower. There is gold fringe at the bottom front of the bag. Originally belonged to Max Rosenthal.

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Four images of the same stained glass but in different colors (black and white, magenta, cyan, and yellow) mounted in black matting and framed in a black frame.

Abstract David J. Nashlsky was born May 25, 1963, in San Francisco, California and later moved with his family to Scottsbluff, Nebraska. He lived for 10 years in Fort Collins, Colorado where he was on the Colorado State University forensic team he attended CSU. He died in Nebraska on June 7, 2008. A skullcap (yarmulke in Yiddish, kipah in Hebrew) consisting of six sections of triangle shaped light blue satin sewn together at the seams with light blue cotton thread. Inside is white cotton lining with...

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Mission style high back wooden chair with arched top, dark leather seat and chairback. Chair would have sat at the front of the Beth Jacob Synagogue on the JCRS campus.

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Mission style high back wooden chair with arched top, dark leather seat and chairback. Chair would have sat at the front of the Beth Jacob Synagogue on the JCRS campus. Pair to B002.16.0384.

Abstract A prayer shawl (tallis - Ashkenazic pronunciation, tallit - Sephardic pronunciation) made from a light-weight wool with ivory silk and black heavy cotton or wool woven stripes. The lower sides have eleven 2 in. tzitzit (fringe) and two 13 in. tzitzit (fringe). All four corners have a 3 1/2 in. x 3 1/2 in.square of silk jacquard with a hole in the center from which the tzizit hang. Each square is embroidered with a menorah, two outlined Stars of David, sixteen tiny solid Stars of David and...

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The Kaplan family came from Memphis, Tennessee to Denver, Colorado. Gerson and his wife Adelle Trauke Kaplan were the parents of Belle N., Dora G., and Sallie Kaplan who were born in Memphis and died in Denver, Colorado. Collection contains a photograph, memorial books and ephemera related to the Kaplan Family from 1880-1981.