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Cover for a High Holy Days Prayer Book
Cover for a High Holy Days Prayer Book

Cover for a High Holy Days Prayer Book

Artist Ilya Schor American, born Poland, 1904–1961
Date1956
MediumSilver, dyed leather
Dimensions8 3/8 x 5 3/4 x 2 in. (21.3 x 14.6 x 5.1 cm)
ClassificationsBook Arts
Credit LineGift of Drs. Ronald and Elizabeth Kanof Levine in honor of Susan R. Finkel
Object number2006.17
On View
On view
ProvenanceCommissioned by Abram Kanof, Brooklyn [1]; created New York, 1956; Drs. Abram and Frances Pascher Kanof, New York and later Raleigh, NC; to daughter Elizabeth Kanof Levine, Raleigh, ca. 1981; given to NCMA, 2006.

[1] Commissioned as a 25th anniversary gift to his wife, Frances Pascher Kanof.
Published ReferencesIlya Schor (exhibition catalogue) (New York: The Jewish Museum, 1965), cat. no. 68

Abram Kanof, Ceremonial Art in the Judaic Tradition (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1975), cat. no. 52.

Life of the Old Jewish Shtetl: Paintings and Silver by Ilya Schor (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Yeshiva University Museum, 1975), cat. no. 19.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, The Jewish Museum, "Ilya Schor," July 8-September 12, 1965, cat. no. 68 (as lent by Dr. and Mrs. Abram Kanof).

New York, NY, The Jewish Museum, "Contemporary Ceremonial Art" (installation of Jewish Museum's collection, with additional loans), 1965- [1970s?].

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Ceremonial Art in the Judaic Tradition," April 27-June 15, 1975, cat. no. 52.

New York, NY, Yeshiva University Museum, "Life of the Old Jewish Shtetl: Paintings and Silver by Ilya Schor," November 1975-January 1976, cat. no. 19.

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