(yad)
A small scepter-like pointer (made of wood or precious metal), used by the public reader to follow the text in the Torah scroll during services.
Inscribed Torah pointers from the First World War in the collection of the Jewish Museum Berlin.
“Selections of Contemporary and Traditional Yads from Barr Foundation Collection are Going on the Road.” Barr Foundation Judaica, Virginia Beach, Va., 2018.
Efron, Zussia. “Carved Wooden Lecterns and Torah Pointers.” Treasures of Jewish Galicia: Judaica from the Museum of Ethnography and Crafts in Lvov, Ukraine, ed. Sarah Harel Hoshen, Tel-Aviv: Beit Hatfutsot, the Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, 1996, pp. 115-20.
Feuchtwanger-Sarig, Naomi. “Chanting to the Hand: Some Preliminary Observations on the Origins of the Torah Pointer.” Studia Rosenthaliana, vol. 37, Peeters Publishers, 2004, pp. 3–35.
Grafman, Rafi. Crowning Glory: Silver Torah Ornaments of the Jewish Museum, New York. Boston: David R. Godine Publisher, 1996, pp. 291-354.
Jacoby, Ruth. The Torah Pointer in the Persian World. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, PhD dissertation, 2004.
Kuntoš, Jaroslav. Silver Judaica: From the Collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague. Prague: Židovské muzeum v Praze, 2012, pp. 174-207.
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