The JMG Collections

Include more than 10,000 original artifacts, which document the material evidence of 2,300 years of Jewish history and culture in Greece.

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Tik (Torah case) wrapper, partly faded pink silk with laid and couched gold embroidery, central ornament and foliate border, probably cushion cover in secondary use.

Tik (Torah case) wrapper, faded wine red velvet, trimmed with woven gold braid on three sides, central gold embroidered inscription with Star of David, dedicated by Rahel, wife of Isaac Samuel Mioni, for the life of her daughter Rinah to the New Congregation, Ioannina.

Tik (Torah case) wrapper, faded grey-brown cotton, green silk centrepiece with laid and couched embroidery with silk threads, central flower and diagonally placed floral corner motifs, with dedicatory strip in tablet weaving technique, donated by Zaphira, wife of Menahem Kabeli, in memory of her daughter Sarah.

Tik (Torah case) wrapper, carmine red cotton, green silk centrepiece with laid and couched embroidery with silk threads, central flower and diagonally placed floral corner motifs, with dedicatory strip in tablet weaving technique, donated by Rabbi Elijah Meir in memory of his son Yehiel to the New Congregation, Ioannina.

Tik (Torah case) wrapper, cerulean blue silk, wine red silk centrepiece with laid and couched gold embroidery in repeated pattern of blossoming branches, in secondary use, with dedicatory strip in tablet weaving technique, donated by Hannah.

Tik (Torah case) wrapper, silk brocade centrepiece with lattice pattern, in secondary use, decorated with ochre fringe trim, purple silk border.

Tik (Torah case) wrapper, centrepiece made of two rectangular cotton fabrics with floral and geometric design, decorated with fringe trim, border stripes made up of silk triangles in red and green tones.

Tik (Torah case) wrapper, carmine red silk centrepiece with repeated floral ornament embroidered with silk threads, with dedicatory strip in tablet weaving technique, donated by Astro, wife of David Moses, to the New Congregation, Ioannina (original border stripes replaced by synthetic fabric in second half of the 20th century).

Tik (Torah case) wrapper, grey-green silk centrepiece with laid and couched embroidery with silk thread in secondary use, diagonally placed floral bunches, decorated with dark red fringe trim, broad cerulean blue silk border.

Tik (Torah case) wrapper, striped gold brocade centrepiece, cobalt blue silk border trimmed and edged with various gold braids.

Tik (Torah case) wrapper, grey-blue irregular striped silk, broad border of faded embroidered cotton, probably made of garment sections.

Tik (Torah case) wrapper, red cotton velvet centrepiece with sewn-on cutouts of light mint silk with gold embroidery (in secondary use), faded velvet border.

Tik (Torah case) wrapper, red velvet with mulitcoloured flower garland mad up of embroidery cutouts in secondary use, gold embroidered inscription, dedicated by Zoya in memory of her husband Joseph Matathia Halevi, who died in 1901.

Tik (Torah case) wrapper, black wool edged with gold woven braids, central motif of arched Star of David in circle made up of semispherical metal studs.

Reader's desk cover (?), bands of cotton with purple, light green and black checked pattern sewn together, material in secondary use, blanket stitch edging, embroidered inscription, dedicated in memory of Rifonta Dulsa Arditti.

Centrepiece of a Tik (Torah case) wrapper, ochre silk satin, embroidered with blue, light green and white silk threads, with concentric floral ornament in large scale and bold design.

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