The head tefillah has the form of a cubical box on a flat, square base; it can be opened and is equipped with a trapezium-shaped hinge through which a leather strap is strung. The base is sewn with a thread. The opposite sides of the box are decorated with the Hebrew letter Shin. The box and the upper part of the base are covered with black enamel. The arm tefillah has the same shape but bears no ornaments.
The item was donated to the collection of the National Museum of Przemyśl by Salomon Freifeld in 1974. Freifeld was one of the leading activists of the Social and Cultural Association of Jews, founded in Przemyśl in 1950. He was a member of its first management board and concomitantly worked as its secretary. The main objective of the Association was to preserve Yiddish culture and language. It had some 50 members – Jewish Holocaust Survivors living in Przemyśl – who would meet in a large, well-equipped clubhouse with a library of books in Polish, Hebrew, and Yiddish.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Freifeld donated several items connected with Jewish culture and tradition to the National Museum of Przemyśl, including tallitot, kippot, and phylacteries.
