Reliquary for the Bones of Sukkot Past

Etrog ossuary

Year: 1994
Materials: Stoneware
Dimensions: 7 in. high, 10 in. wide, 7.5 in. deep

Sukkot is a fall festival that lasts eight days. Each day there is a ceremony when we hold a citron (etrog in Hebrew). After the holiday the citron can be left to dry. If one saves them from year to year, one has a collection of the "dried bones" of Sukkot past. An ossuary is a box for bones.

Arnold Schwarzbart

A miniature sarcophagus marked with the six-pointed star and the lulav. Shown at the B'nai B'rith Klutznick Museum in 1997 and at Hebrew Union College in 2000.

Discussed in Ori Soltes, "To Glorify Sacred Space," 2019 (figure 14)

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Arnold Schwarzbart, z"l. March 10, 1942 to March 16, 2015.

His papers are held as the Arnold Schwarzbart Collection, MSC 0576, in the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection at the Knox County Public Library. Eulogies and tributes are collected under Remembrances.