This listing is for unique handmade Jewish Wimpel or Torah Scroll Binder dated 1945. Wimpels are made from the linen cloth used to swaddle a baby boy during his Brit Milah (Circumcision) and used by Ashkenazic Jews of German descent.
The name of the Jewish boy is listed as Jeffery P. Pflaum and in Hebrew "Ya'akov Bar Pinchas". There are several Jewish images that have been painted on the wimpel including a wedding chuppah, Sefer Torah, Star of David, and a menorah. It has the traditional Hebrew blessing wishing the boy Good Luck, Good Deeds, a Wedding, and a Life of Torah.
This wimpel measures 151" x 7" and is made from 4 separate pieces of cloth that were sewn together. This wimpel is in very good condition for its age with no tears. At the back side of one end, it lists the artist as "W. Wertheimer" and their Hebrew name.
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From the website of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, a museum and research center at the University of California, Berkeley:
The wimpel, a ritual object that physically represents the ties between personal and family rituals on the one hand (the Life Cycle, beginning with the Circumcision), and synagogue and communal life on the other (Torah reading), is today a source of often unique biographical (and genealogical) information about the development of Jewish communities that have long disappeared. The diverse decorative motifs and the varying quality of the textiles used in the embroideries offer precious insights in reconstructing the social history of the communities of origin, the dynamics of gender roles and relations, the financial status of the families that made them or had them made, as well as the overarching aesthetics that governed their production.