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1. Broken pink gravestone with a Ladino inscription from a desecrated Jewish cemetery recovered postwar
Object | Accession Number: 2005.609.1
Date:
creation: approximately 1715-before 1864
2. Pair of Tefillin and pouch owned by a Romanian Jewish concentration camp survivor
2006.516.5 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2006.516.5 a-c
Date:
use: before 1944 May
recovered: 1946
3. Tallit
Object | Accession Number: 2017.625.2
4. Pair of small tefillin brought to the United States by Nisson Bespaloff or a family member
Object | Accession Number: 2017.694.5 a-b
Date:
use: 1901-1946
5. Hammered silver kiddush cup with floral engravings
1992.123.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.123.8
6. Circumcision knife with inscription and agate handle with wooden case used by a mohel
1992.8.27_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.27 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938
7. Blue velvet tallit pouch with an embroidered monogram owned by a German Jewish refugee
2004.524.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.524.17
Date:
use: approximately 1939
8. Tallit owned by a German Jewish man
Object | Accession Number: 2016.538.3
Date:
emigration: after 1937-1939 May
9. Wedding canopy (chuppah) made by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Object | Accession Number: 2019.229.2
Date:
creation: 1945-1949
10. Blue striped tallit with embroidered Hebrew text used by a Czech Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.4
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
11. Yad or Torah pointer used for over a century in Romania
2000.528.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.528.2
12. Torah
Object | Accession Number: 2007.471.6
Date:
use: 1932
found: 1945
Title:
Miniature Torah scroll
13. Hanukkah menorah
Object | Accession Number: 2019.21.7 a-c
14. Tallis with bag given to a Czechoslovakian Jewish man by a U.S. Army chaplain
2018.297.4 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.297.4 a-b
Date:
received: after 1946 May-before 1947 December
15. Torah pointer recovered postwar from the site of the destroyed synagogue in Grodno
1991.140.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.140.1
Date:
creation: 1870-1880
found: approximately 1945
16. Tallit
Object | Accession Number: 2019.433.3
17. Yad or Torah pointer used for over a century in Romania
2000.528.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.528.1
18. Tallit bag
2000.502.200 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.502.200
19. Painted wooden spice box kept by by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.498.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.498.3
Date:
received: 1939 February
20. Metal grave marker of a Jewish woman who was killed in Djakovo labor camp
2012.319.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.319.4
Date:
creation: after 1945
21. Haftorah scroll with cover
2015.335.2 a closed
Object | Accession Number: 2015.335.2 a-b
22. Shabbat candle holder
Object | Accession Number: 2019.576.12
23. Hanukkah lamp
Object | Accession Number: 2020.310.3 a-c
24. Gravestone
Object | Accession Number: 2016.504.2
25. Kiddush saucer engraved with a Star of David owned by a Romanian Jewish family
2017.356.2 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 2017.356.2
Date:
use: before 1944 May
26. Tefillin set with an extra strap used by a Jewish immigrant
2012.72.11 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.72.11 a-c
Date:
emigration: 1908
27. Ritual slaughter knife with a wooden case used by a shochet
1992.8.33_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.33 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938
28. Pair of tefillin and pouch owned by a Polish Jewish immigrant
2016.280.1_a-b 3/4 view closed
Object | Accession Number: 2016.280.1 a-f
Date:
use: before 1983
29. Brown cloth Torah mantle with a Star of David applique
1990.41.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.41.20
Date:
recovered: after 1945
30. Green velvet monogrammed tallit pouch buried for safekeeping while owner in hiding
2007.471.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.471.3
Date:
use: before 1932
recovered: after 1944 December
31. Leather tallit pouch made by an inmate in a Dutch detention center
2012.485.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.485.11
Date:
creation: after 1939 September
32. Desecrated Torah scroll fragment found in Poland
Object | Accession Number: 1992.1.24
33. White kittel used by Rabbi Ferenc Hevesi on High Holidays
1990.245.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.14 a-b
Date:
use: 1922-1952
34. Hanukkah oil lamp from a Romanian synagogue
2000.530.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.530.2
35. Torah scroll fragment from the Remu Synagogue
2011.106.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.106.1
36. Fragment from a Torah mantle destroyed during Kristallnacht
Object | Accession Number: 2015.204.2
Date:
found: 1938 November 10
37. Brown tefillin pouch used by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.1
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
38. Handmade wooden hanukiah with Hebrew inscription made by Kindertransport refugees
2006.69.1 3/4 view right side
Object | Accession Number: 2006.69.1
Date:
received: approximately 1942
creation: approximately 1941
39. Torah breastplate recovered postwar from the site of the destroyed synagogue in Grodno
1991.140.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.140.2
Date:
creation: 1870-1880
found: approximately 1945
40. Tallit katan
2000.502.198 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.502.198
41. Calligraphy of Sukkot prayers and a personal inscription created by a sofer
1992.8.37 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.37
Date:
creation: 1933-1934
emigration: 1938
Artwork Title:
Welcoming Sukkot
42. Spice box used in a Romanian synagogue
2000.530.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.530.3
43. Striped silk tallit, green velvet bag and white liner used by a Czech Jewish refugee
2009.147.1_c front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.147.1 a-c
Date:
emigration: 1939 October
44. Torah breastplate
Object | Accession Number: 2019.549.1
45. Tefillin and green velvet pouch used by a Polish Jewish survivor
2006.285.4_c front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.285.4 a-c
Date:
use: 1939-1945
46. Black and white striped wool tallit katan found postwar by a Polish Jewish man
2003.163.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.163.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945 May
47. Embroidered blue tefillin bag carried by a Lithuanian Jewish man in hiding
1990.251.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.251.1.1
Date:
use: approximately 1900-1967
48. Recovered fragment of a desecrated tombstone honoring a Greek Jewish soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2011.109.2
Date:
commemoration: 1941 March 11
use: 1942 December
49. Ritual slaughter instrument set: 3 knives, 3 cases, 2 whetstones, a bag, a band, and 4 cloths used by a shochet
1992.8.39_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.39 a-n
Date:
emigration: 1938
use: approximately 1910-1938
50. Set of tefillin found postwar by a young Polish Jewish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.3 b-c
Date:
found: 1945