Bible in silver binding

Leopold (Lipót) Löw (Cerna Hora, Moravia, 1811 – Szeged, 1875) was rabbi in Nagykanizsa, Pápa, and in Szeged. As an enthusiastic supporter of the Jewish emancipation and assimilation, he was among the first ones to preach in Hungarian. During the 1848 War of Independence, he was an army chaplain, and was imprisoned after the lost war. The silver-bound Bible was given to the rabbi by the Jewish community of Pápa when he moved to Szeged in 1850. The lion characteristic of the Jewish iconography also alludes to the name of the owner (Löw).