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A Wooden Gavel Presented to Chebra Rofei Cholim Krakauer Society, New York, 1884

$4,500

£3,399.96

€3,895.33

CA$6,278.96

A$6,843.75

CHF 3,618.23

MX$82,385.70

NOK 45,924.33

SEK 42,103.22

DKK 29,098.31

About the Item

A Unique Wooden Gavel, Presented to Chebra Rofei Cholim Krakauer Society in New York, 1884. This wooden Gavel has a long baluster handle and a thick circular body with a dedicatory inscription at the bottom front: "Presented by S. Fisch to the Chebra / 1884 / Rofei Cholm." The coat of arms of Krakow appears on the bottom. The Chebra Rofei Cholim Krakauer Society in New York was founded in 1855, at a time when Jews from Eastern Europe were a minority amongst American Jews who had emigrated from Western Europe. The first Jews to settle in North America were mostly members of Sephardic communities from Western Europe, descendants of Spanish and Portuguese exiles. In the 18th and first half of the 19th centuries, Jewish immigration to the United States was for the most part German; in the 1840s, conditions were ripe for increasing emigration of Eastern European Jews to the United States. Only in the 1880s, after the pogroms in Southern Russia, did the great wave of emigration from these parts begin, bringing millions of Eastern European Jews to the United States. Mutual help societies for immigrants originating from the same city or state (Landsmanshaftn) provided their members with financial support in times of distress, sponsored medical care when necessary, assisted with burial costs, and supported orphans and widows. These societies often acted as unofficial guilds based on common professions, social circles, and as replacements for the extended family. Some adopted political and social agendas. In New York alone some 2060 such societies were recorded until WWI, from some 900 European cities and towns, including 21 societies of emigrants from Krakow and the surroundings alone. The Chebra Rofei Cholim Krakauer Society was the first of these 21 societies to be recorded. In the Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn NY, there is a separate plot for members of this society.

Dimensions:
Height: 12.6 in (32 cm)Width: 3.94 in (10 cm)Depth: 3.94 in (10 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Wood,Carved,Painted
Period:
1880-1889
Date of Manufacture:
1884
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU5281240316352

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