Collection
The museum’s collection of more than 8,000 artifacts includes fine and folk art, ethnographic and archaeological artifacts, clothing and textiles, Jewish ceremonial art objects, documents, books, and manuscripts.
Highlights of the collection include:
- Archaeological artifacts dating from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity
- Historic illuminated manuscripts such as one from 1478 recording the Simon of Trent blood libel trial
- Thomas Jefferson's handwritten letter of 1818 affirming religious freedom and denouncing anti-Semitism
- The Torah scroll and tefillin purported to belong to the Baal Shem Tov, founder of the Hasidic movement
- A model of Herod's Temple by Leen Ritmeyer
Yeshiva University Museum’s holdings embrace several significant collections of Jewish art and material culture, including:
- Models of historic synagogues commissioned for the museum’s founding
- Meyerhoff Collection of Early Israeli Art
- Jean Moldovan Collection of Jewish Children’s books
- Raphael Patai Amulet Collection
- Max Stern Collection of Judaica
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