Prosser, J. orcid.org/0000-0002-9327-9631 (2024) Cecil Roth’s Torah scroll shoe soles: collecting Holocaust relics in Greece. Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, 30 (3). pp. 392-415. ISSN 1750-4902
Abstract
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.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0). |
Keywords: | Torah scroll fragments, Holocaust relics, Cecil Roth, Greece, Salonica, post-Holocaust collecting |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2023 10:22 |
Last Modified: | 21 Aug 2024 13:01 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17504902.2023.2286081 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:205585 |
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