TORAH
CROWNS
New York, 1891
These crowns were presented to Temple Beth-El, which merged with Emanu-El in
1927. The donor, Lyman G. Bloomingdale, was a prominent New Yorker and art collector,
who served at one time as treasurer of Temple Beth-El and also as treasurer
of the Montefiore Hospital. Born in 1841 in New York, he began working with
his father as a traveling merchant in the western states. At the outbreak of
the Civil War he enlisted in the Kansas Volunteers. After the war he worked
with his father in the hoopskirt business; in 1872, he opened a dry goods store
which developed into the present-day Bloomingdale's.
Gift of Lyman G. Bloomingdale, 1891
