(kaporet)
A short curtain hanging on the Torah Ark, above the curtain (parochet).
Gutmann, Joseph. “An Eighteenth-Century Prague Jewish Workshop of Kapporot.” Visible Religion, vol. 6, 1988, pp. 180-90.
Veselská, Dana, and Michaela Scheibová, “The Kapporet as a Synagogue Item: Its Origin and Development.” Textiles from Bohemian and Moravian Synagogues from the Collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague, edited by Ludmila Kybalová et al., Prague: Jewish Museum Prague /Prague Castle, 2003, pp. 47-60.
Voolen, Edward van. “A Valance from the Portuguese Synagogue in the Joods Historische Museum.” Journal of Jewish Art, ed. Bezalel Narkiss, vol. 8, 1981, pp. 80-2.
Yaniv, Bracha. “The Torah Ark Curtain and Valance.” Ceremonial Synagogue Textiles: From Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Italian Communities, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019, pp. 193-252.
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