Decorated with four figures carrying the deceased with Hebrew engraving.
Dedication Engraved on outside of the Kiddush Cup is Read in Hebrew and Translated to :
"Hareinu Hashem Chasdecha Veeshuaseca Teetain Lanu.
Azor Lanu Ufedeinu Lema’an Chasdecha Kee Bechasdecha Batachnu.
Yehai Shmei Rabah Mevorach Leolam Uleolmei Olemayaa."
"Reveal to us, oh God, your Kindness, and your Salvation Deliver to Us.
Assist and Redeem Us for the Sake of your Grace, Because it is your unbound Kindness we Depend and Believe in.
May your Exalted and Holy Name be Blessed in this World Forever and Ever."
Peter Ehrenthal, born on September 2, 1920 in Bánffyhunyad (now Huedin), Romania. Having no electricity in their home; attending primary school in town and going to Cluj (50 kilometers away) for high school; people mostly traveling by horse and buggy; how his family was not religious but his grandfather took him to synagogue on the High Holidays; moving with his family to Bucharest, Romania when he was 13 years old; fighting with a newsboy who called him a Jew; attending a gymnasium (high school) in Bucharest until 1936 when he was thrown out; apprenticing to a silversmith until the war began; his father being forced to clean the street, but was permitted to continue his dental practice; being forced to work in a labor camp for a short while; returning home and not reporting to duty (no one looked for him); working in the basement doing his silversmith work during the war; being liberated by the Russian Army; joining the Young Communists (he believed in their philosophy but did not like the way it was carried out); getting married to Erica; leaving Romania for Palestine along with his new wife as well as his brother and uncle and their families; receiving help from the Hagenah; being captured by the British on a fishing boat and interned on Cyprus until Israel became a state; working as a school manager in Israel for newcomers and then as a merchant; being sent by a company to the United States in 1957 and deciding to stay in the US; going into the silversmithing business and later became an antiques dealer;
The cup and cover are made in Germany circa 1900.
Hallmarked I.S.A.
Condition: Overall great condition some denting along the stem, two figures elevated
Dimensions; 12.4in H., 4in W., 32cm H., 10cm W., 19.24ozt. weight.
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