Torah scroll on deerskin

Title

Torah scroll on deerskin

Subject

Torah Scroll
Ritual Object

Description

"In a footnote in his diary, Vol. 1, page 6, Dr. Ezra Stiles [a noted diarist of Rhode Island and later president of Yale College] notes that he was told by Dr. Isaac Touro [first hazzan of Congregation Yeshuat Israel] that this scroll was presented from Amsterdam. This scroll which is now over four hundred years old is in a good state of preservation. The seript is clear Ind legible. [Rabbi Lewis, p. 286]

The scroll is current displayed in a case to the left of the Ark. Stiles was writing in 1763; if he is correct as to the age of the scroll, it would now be over 650 years old.

Date

purported to have been written in 1363 CE

Contributor

Possibly the Spanish Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam.

Format

PhysicalObject

Identifier

TS-0012

Original Format

Torah scroll handwritten in Hebrew on deerskin.

Files

Deerskin-Torah-Scroll.jpg

Citation

“Torah scroll on deerskin,” Colonial Jewish Newport, accessed March 29, 2024, https://aojd.omeka.net/items/show/12.