

Solomon, the wealthy individual who commissioned and donated this splendid Torah mantle, was a member of the renowned Jerusalem family, leaders of the Prague Jewish community in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Moses, Solomon, and Leopold Jerusalem played a significant role in the development of the Bohemian textile industry by introducing modern machinery in the nineteenth century.
Literature
Ludmila Kybalová, Eva Kosáková, et al., Textiles from Bohemian and Moravian Synagogues: From the Collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague (Prague: Jewish Museum in Prague, 2003).