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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Synagogue*

Wimpel (mappah)

Alsace or Germany, 1752

Bagues de mariage

Festivals and ceremonies

Wedding rings

Germany and Italy, 16^th-17^th centuries

Vue de la synagogue ashkénaze et de la synagogue portugaise à Amsterdam

History, Fine arts

View of the Sephardic and Ashkenazi Synagogues in Amsterdam

Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde (Haarlem, 1638–Haarlem, 1698)

Amsterdam, 1682

Hermann Struck, Portrait de Theodor Herzl, 1903

History, Art moderne

Theodor Herzl

Hermann Struck (Berlin, 1876 – Haïfa, 1944)

Berlin, 1903

Boite-a-aromates-avec -chandelier.jpg

Daily life

Spice box (bessamim) and candelabrum

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

Art moderne

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

Issachar Ryback (Yelisavetgrad, 1897 – Paris, 1935)

Berlin, Schwellen Verlag, 1923

Maurycy Gottlieb, Autoportrait

Fine arts

Self-Portrait

Maurycy Gottlieb (Drohobych, 1856 – Kraków, 1879)

1879

Festivals and ceremonies, Books and manuscripts

Ritual for the Passover Seder (Haggadah shel Pessah)

Anonymous

Germany, 1731

Samuel Hirszenberg, Portrait d’un écrivain juif

Fine arts

Portrait of a Jewish Writer

Samuel Hirszenberg (Łódz, 1865 – Jérusalem, 1908)

Circa 1902

Tableau-pour-marquer-l’Est.jpg

Daily life

Picture indicating the East (mizrah)

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

Amsterdam, 1845