Adon Olam ["Master of the Universe": traditional hymn]

(LITURGY).

Maria Theresiopel (Hungary)

1896

Hebrew. Signature in German

This charming miniature (the writing so small as to suggest micrography) was executed by Leo Handelsman. The city of Maria Theresiopel (named after Austrian Empress Maria Theresa) belonged to Hungary until the fall of the Habsburg dynasty and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I. In the year 1920, the city was transferred to the newly formed republic of Yugoslavia. At the time of the Hungarian occupation of Subotica in World War Two, the city's Jews were murdered en masse. (See EJ, Vol. XVI, cols. 878-80.)