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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Bagues de mariage
Festivals and ceremonies

Wedding rings

Germany and Italy, 16th-17th centuries

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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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Books and manuscripts

Prayer book

Ferrara, 1512

Oeuvre clé : Poèmes liturgiques, piyyoutim
Books and manuscripts

Liturgical poems for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

Northern Spain, 15th century

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Books and manuscripts

Kabbalistic treatise

Sefer Raziel HaMalakh (Book of Raziel the Angel)

Amsterdam, Abraham Mendes Coutinho, 1701

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Festivals and ceremonies

Jewellery of a Jewish woman in Morocco

Diadem (taj), ear ornaments (khoras amara), bird medallion (serdokh), fibulas (tizerzaï)

Fez, Tangiers, Tétouan, late 18th – early 19th century

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Festivals and ceremonies

Hut for the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkah)

Austria or southern Germany, mid 19th century

Oeuvre clé : Nahmanide, Hiddoushei ha-Torah
Books and manuscripts

Hiddushei ha-Torah (New Commentaries on the Torah)

Moshe ben Nahman, known as Nachmanides (1194-1270)
Lisbon, 1489

Oeuvre clé : Lampe de la Reconsécration
Festivals and ceremonies

Hanukkah Lamp (hanukkiyyah)

France, before 1394

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