Musical instrument made with a horn of a kosher animal. Its original form is retained – it is an arching, slightly flattened shape, narrowing towards one of the ends. Light brown horn with visible tissue structure.
The item was donated to the collection of the National Museum of Przemyśl by Salomon Freifeld in 1983. 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.
The item forms part of the prewar collection of the National Museum of Przemyśl. Due to missing inventory documentation it has been impossible to determine how it became property of the Museum.
