Key works

Discover the richness of the mahJ’s collection through a selection of major works, representative of the diversity of artistic expressions related to Jewish history and culture.

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Books and manuscripts

Bible (Tanakh)

Romeyn de Hooghe (illustrations; Amsterdam, 1645 – Haarlem, 1708)

Amsterdam: Menasseh ben Israel, 1631; engravings incorporated after 1712

Oeuvre clé : Tronc à aumônes
Daily life, Festivals and ceremonies

Collection cup

Spain, 1319

Rouleau d'Esther, Amsterdam, 1641
Festivals and ceremonies, Books and manuscripts

Esther scroll (megillat Ester)

Attributed to Shalom Italia (Mantua, circa 1619 – Amsterdam, circa 1655)

Amsterdam, circa 1641

Joseph Budko, Dans la ville du massacre
Art moderne, History

In the City of Slaughter

Joseph Budko (Plonsk, 1888 – Jérusalem, 1940)

Berlin, 1923
 

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Books and manuscripts

Kabbalistic treatise

Sefer Raziel HaMalakh (Book of Raziel the Angel)

Amsterdam, Abraham Mendes Coutinho, 1701

Oeuvre clé : Poèmes liturgiques, piyyoutim
Books and manuscripts

Liturgical poems for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

Northern Spain, 15th century

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Daily life

Picture indicating the East (mizrah)

Levi David van Gelder (draughtsman and lithographer; Amsterdam, 1816 – New York, 1878)

Amsterdam, 1845

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Festivals and ceremonies, Books and manuscripts

Ritual for the Passover Seder (Haggadah shel Pessah)

Anonymous

Germany, 1731

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Art moderne

Shtetl. Mayn Khorever Heym, A Gedekhtnish (Shtetl. My Destroyed Home. A Remembrance)

Issachar Ryback (Yelisavetgrad, 1897 – Paris, 1935)

Berlin, Schwellen Verlag, 1923

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Daily life

Spice box (bessamim) and candelabrum

Eastern France or Germany, late 18th or early 19th century