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ادوات السجل العروض	Star of David إزالة من الاختيار ضف للاختيار رقم الكائنM2012/046 العنوانStar of David المنشيء Rabbi Leib Falk (maker)‎ الوصفStar of David emblem made by Rabbi Leib Aisack Falk. It was fashioned from a brass artillery shell case when he was chaplain of the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers in Palestine, 1918. The emblem was affixed to a portable ark which housed the Battalion’s Torah. Both ark and star were transported with the Battalion throughout the Palestine campaign. Leib Aisack Falk was born in 1889 in Russia. Influenced early on by the teachings of Rabbi Kook, he moved to Scotland in 1911 and was the minister of Dundee from 1912-15. Following service at Plymouth, England, he became Chaplain to the Royal Fusiliers from 1918-21. In 1922 Rabbi Falk travelled to Sydney, Australia with his family. He took a position at the Great Synagogue and is renowned for his fiery pro-Zionist sermons, his scholarship, artistic ability and Judaic library. In the file is the brass plaque made to accompany the object. مكان الإنتاجPalestine التاريخ circa 1918 فترة الإنتاجWorld War I (1914-1918) الموضوعWorld War I (1914-1918), Jews and War, Jews in military, Religion in War, trenches, war artists اسم الكائنemblems مادةbrass الأبعاد length: 176.00 mm width: 105.00 mm depth: 6.00 mm اللغة English Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mrs Debbie Sleigh

رقم الكائنM2012/046

العنوانStar of David

المنشيء Rabbi Leib Falk (maker)‎

الوصفStar of David emblem made by Rabbi Leib Aisack Falk. It was fashioned from a brass artillery shell case when he was chaplain of the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers in Palestine, 1918.

The emblem was affixed to a portable ark which housed the Battalion’s Torah. Both ark and star were transported with the Battalion throughout the Palestine campaign.

Leib Aisack Falk was born in 1889 in Russia. Influenced early on by the teachings of Rabbi Kook, he moved to Scotland in 1911 and was the minister of Dundee from 1912-15. Following service at Plymouth, England, he became Chaplain to the Royal Fusiliers from 1918-21.

In 1922 Rabbi Falk travelled to Sydney, Australia with his family. He took a position at the Great Synagogue and is renowned for his fiery pro-Zionist sermons, his scholarship, artistic ability and Judaic library.

In the file is the brass plaque made to accompany the object.

مكان الإنتاجPalestine

التاريخ circa 1918

فترة الإنتاجWorld War I (1914-1918)

الموضوعWorld War I (1914-1918), Jews and War, Jews in military, Religion in War, trenches, war artists

اسم الكائنemblems

مادةbrass

الأبعاد

اللغة

Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mrs Debbie Sleigh

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