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Simhat Torah flag

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A small, decorated flag waved by children during the procession of Torah scrolls on Simhat Torah.

Video

Culturally Decoding the Simchat Torah Flag

Culturally Decoding the Simchat Torah Flag, a lecture by Shalom Sabar.

Translations

  • Hebrewדגל שמחת תורה
  • GermanSimchat Tora-Fähnchen
  • RussianФлажок на Симхат Тору
  • FrenchDrapeau de Sim’hat Torah
  • DutchSimchat Tora vlag
  • ItalianBandiera per Simchat Torah
  • CzechVlaječka pro svátek Simchat Tóra
  • HungarianSzimhat Tora zászló
  • SpanishBandera para Simjat Torá
  • GreekΣημαία για το Σιμχάτ Τορά
  • PolishChorągiewka na Simchat Tora
  • Arabicعلم عيد “بهجة توراة”
  • Yiddishפֿאָנעלע פֿאַר שׂמחת־תּורה
  • LadinoBandyera de Simhat Tora

Bibliography

Behroozi Bar Oz, Nitza, ed. The Flags of Simchat Torah: From Popular Jewish Art to Hebrew Israeli Culture. Tel Aviv: Eretz Israel Museum, 2012.

Sabar, Shalom. “The History of the Simchat Torah Flag from Ritual Object to National Symbol and Back,” The Flags of Simchat Torah from Popular Jewish Art to Hebrew Israeli Culture Exhibition. Tel Aviv: Eretz Israel Museum, 2012, pp. 8-27, 26e-34e.

Sabar, Shalom. “Jewish Folk Art and Ideology: The Simhat Torah Flag through the Ages.” Swimming Against the Current – Reimagining Jewish Tradition in the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, ed. Shaul Seidler-Feller and David N. Myers, Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2020, pp. 319-56.

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