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Kiddush cup
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76262
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Kiddush cup : Hammered ; Ht: 4 1/2 in. x W: 2 7/8 in.
- Date
- May 28, 1939
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Kiddush cup : Hammered ; Ht: 4 1/2 in. x W: 2 7/8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Ceremonial Artifact
- Date
- May 28, 1939
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Hebrew
- Notes
- Silver kiddish cup, bulbous stem and circular base. Decorative etching on outside of cup in zigzag patterns forming borders and ferns; inscribed with Hebrew words on each side. Narrative: This cup was given as a wedding gift to Yehuda Elberg by his grandfather. It was lost during the war and recovered by Elberg at an auction in New York. Elberg was born in Zgierz, Poland in 1912. He became a rabbi but focused on writing short stories and newspaper articles in Hebrew and Yiddish. During the war, he was involved in resistance activities in ?ód? and Warsaw, avoiding deportation. After the war, he lived in Paris and New York, eventually settling in Montreal. He died in his sleep in 2003.
- Accession No.
- 2005.25.01
- Name Access
- Elberg, Nathan
- Places
- Warsaw, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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