Cecil Roth’s Torah scroll shoe soles
Collecting Holocaust relics in Greece
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12904100 |
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| Authors | Jay Prosser (University of Leeds, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 392-415 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Holocaust Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-4902 • E-ISSN: 2048-4887 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17504902.2023.2286081 |
| OpenAlex | W4391188039 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
This essay examines two shoe soles cut from a Torah scroll which British historian and collector of Judaica Cecil Roth collected in Greece in 1946. As Holocaust relics, the Torah scroll shoe soles are, in turn, sacred and sacrilegious, texts and objects, Greek Jewish and non-Jewish Greek artifacts. Roth's recovery of the shoe soles is compromised by occurring under the auspices of the British Army during the Greek Civil War and in the controversial climate of collecting Judaica displaced by the Holocaust. I discuss the ongoing story of the shoe soles: their separation, their use, and their best location
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Jewish studies · Judaism · Literature · Scroll · The Holocaust · Theology · Torah · Archaeological Research and Protection · Classics · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy
A Time to Gather
Greece 1940–1949
The cultural biography of things
Ghosts of Home
The Holocaust in Greece
Salonica and Istanbul
The Routledge Companion to Jewish History and Historiography
Soil, Ashes, Commemoration
The Archive Thief
Memory | Materiality | Sensuality
The second life of Jewish belongings–Jewish personal objects and their afterlives in the Polish and Belarusian post-Holocaust shtetls
Roads to Ratibor
A tale of two referenda
The British Army, and counter‐guerrilla warfare in Greece, 1945–49
Torah and Taboo
The Corporeal Turn
Testimonial Objects
Cultural Genocide and Restitution
Testimonies as Sacred Texts
Durkheim's Sign Made Flesh
| Highly cited | No |
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