L Association has received for deposit a "yad" or hand reading. This object is used to follow the line of writing while reading from the Torah. The
yad whose photographs appear above is fairly modest in the form of money, it consists of a hand to the index finger, adorned with a ring with a cut glass imitating garnet. A cuff and a collar adorn the end of the rod which supports a central star of David, also provided in the center of a bate with a cut glass. The end of the yad is composed of a button topped with a figurine of a lion. The chain, which should be fixed at this lion is not preserved. The
yad door twice (on the cuff and tip of the stem) of the punches which allow to know its origin: This is the punching system in use in the Russian Empire until 1896, returning by the year 1895, as cash equivalent to 850/1000e and Control office in Warsaw (Poland Possession is then Russian).
This hand reading is of Polish manufacturing, dated 1895. The Polish Jewish immigration has been strong in the inter-war period: yad is probably what he witnessed this important episode in the history of European Jewish communities.
Benedict Jordan - ACPRA.
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