Torah Scrolls

Tishrei is a month of holidays, and the last one is Simchat Torah (“Rejoicing of Torah”). On this day we celebrate having reached the end of the reading of the Torah, and then we begin reading it again. People praying in the synagogue take out all of the Torah scrolls from the Ark and dance with them. The Photograph Collection of the CZA includes beautiful and unique photographs of Torah scrolls, which, it turns out, were not taken out from the Ark only for religious reasons. Below is a selection of pictures of Torah scrolls at different times in the history of the Jews in the 20^th century.