Corona Typewriter Company
ca. 1920 | United States
Yiddish Typewriter
Unknown Artist
ca. 1900 | Yemen
Yemenite Torah Finials (Rimonim)
Mitchell Siporin
1937 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Worker’s Family, from A Gift to Biro-Bidjan
Unknown Artist
20th century | Italy
Wedding Ring
Leon Garland
1932 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wedding in the Cemetery
Amar Salih
1921 | Baghdad?
Wedding Cup with Plate and Lid (Kos Kiddush)
unknown maker
1950 | Negev
View of Negba from the Iraqi Fortress
Jewish Welfare Board
1943 | New York, United States
V-Mail New Year Card
Unknown Maker
ca. 1945-1949 | Berchtesgaden, Germany
Toy Horse-Drawn Carriage
Peter Freudenthal
1979-1981 | Sweden
Towards Moriah
8th Floor Asher Library | Currently on view
Rotger Herfurth
mid 18th Century | Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Torah Pointer (Yad)
Jacob Greenvurcel
late 20th century | Jerusalem
Torah Ornaments Set
Unknown Maker
1920 | Ottoman Empire
Torah Mantle
Unknown Maker
1819 | Germany
Torah Binder (Wimpel)
Unknown Maker
Early 20th Century | United States
Torah Ark Decoration
Lionel Kalish
1969 | New York, United States
The Yiddish Lesson
David Bennett
1982 | Germany
The Vision of Ezekiel
Ze'ev Raban; Mordechai Avniel; Hasefer
1923 | Jerusalem
The Song of Songs; Shir-Ha-Shirim
Jacques Emile Edouard Brandon
1897 | France
The Raising of the Law in the Portuguese Synagogue of Amsterdam
Nicole Gordon
2000 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
The Inward Journey 1
3rd Floor Hallway | Currently on view
Yosl Bergner
1965 | Israel
The Heroic Tailors
David Ben Bekker
after 1934 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
The Exploiter
Andy Warhol
1980 | United States
Ten Portraits of Jews of the 20th Century (Golda Meir)
Unknown Artist
ca. 1868 | Vilna, Lithuania
Synagogue Place Marker for the Seat of the Vilna Gaon
Morris Topchevsky
1924 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Street Scene, Chicago
E.E.
ca. 1872-1922 | Brno, Austro-Hungary
Spice Container (Besamim)
Unknown Maker
1927 | Odessa, Ukraine, USSR
Soviet Passport
Maurice Burkhart
1912 | Cleveland, United States
Yiddisha Nightingale
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
1968 | Austria
Slow Travel Under the Sun
Boris Schatz
1902 | Berlin, Germany
Sleeping Jew
Unknown Maker
19th Century | Janina, Ottoman Empire
Silver Esther Scroll Case
Unknown Artist
ca. 1840s | Germany or USA?
Sigmund Waterman Portrait
Unknown Maker
19th Century | Germany
Shofar
Unknown Maker
1830 | Pritzk, Poland
Shiviti
Yocheved Bat-Miriam
1946 | Unknown Origin
Shirim La-Ghetto (Poems for the Ghetto)
Friedrich Adler
1914 | Germany
Seder Plate
Unknown Maker
18th Century | Eastern Europe
Seal Certifying Kashrut (Kosher)
Unknown Maker
19th Century | Germany
Sabbath Hanging Lamp (Judenstern)
HH
1872-1922 | Pest, Hungary
Reader's Desk Plaque
Unknown Maker
Early 20th Century | Ottoman Empire
Reader's Desk Cover (Mappah)
Unknown Maker
19th or 20th century | Sasów, Eastern Galicia
Prayer Shawl Collar (Atarah)
Unknown Maker
19th Century | Morocco
Prayer Book Case
Yaakov Benor-Kalter
between 1923 and 1940 | Haifa, Palestine
Postcard: Jewish Builders
Resnik Publishing Company
ca. 1920s | Warsaw, Poland
Postcard
William Auerbach-Levy
1933 | United States
Portrait of a Rabbi
Hebrew Publishing Company
1906 | New York, United States
Pop-up New Year Card
Unknown Maker
1810-1824 | Lemberg, Austro-Hungary
Pidyon Ha-ben Plate
Unknown Maker
ca. 1948-ca. 1953 | Israel
Photograph: From Iraq
Maryan S. Maryan
1971 | United States
Personnage with Hood and Donkey Ears
Carl Gernetl (script and border decoration); Carl Boess the Younger (coat of arms)
1881 | Vienna, Austria
Patent of Nobility
Unknown Maker
1926 | Mexico
Passport and Immigration Document
Unknown Maker
1939 | Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia)
Passport
Unknown Maker
Late 19th-Early 20th Century | Austro-Hungary
Passover Seder
Howard Schwartz
2003 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
On Their Way To Shul
Unknown Maker
late 19th century | Palestine
Omer Calendar
Milton Resnick
1957 | United States
Number 66
Unknown Maker
late 19th century | Central Europe?
Noisemaker (Grogger)
Unknown Maker
19th Century | Germany
Noah's Ark
Unknown Maker
ca. 1948-ca. 1953 | Israel
New Citizens
Franz Kaltenmacher
1807 | Moravia
Neoclassical Hanukkah Lamp (Hanukiah)
Robert Oakes Jordan and Herbert Sigurdsson
1963 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Model of Grodno Synagogue
Unknown Artist
Early 20th Century | Germany
Mizrah
Mose Elias Goldstein
1899 | Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Micrography
Unknown Maker
late 19th century | Egypt
Memorial Light (Yizkor)
Yitzhak Pugacz (obverse) and Dodo Shenhav (reverse)
1964 | Israel
First Immigrant Blockade Runners
Unknown Artist
1864 | Detroit, Michigan, United States
Marriage Contract (Ketubbah)
Al Capp
1956 | New York, United States
Mammy Yokum and the Great Dogpatch Mystery
Adolf Muhlmann
ca. 1887-1890 | Vienna, Austro-Hungary
Love Letter Written in Musical Code
Unknown Artist
ca. 1922 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Logan Square Stained Glass Window
William S. Schwartz
1928 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Lithograph: Portrait of a Rabbi
Unknown Artist
1881 | Germany
Levitical Pitcher
G.M. Szalet
June 1940 | Shanghai, China
Letter from G.M. Szalet
Unknown Maker
20th century | Yemen
Lazam Type Necklace
Unknown Maker
18th Century | Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Laver
Unknown Artist
ca. 1898 | France
L'affaire Dreyfus et la Verite (The Dreyfus Affair and the Truth)
Unknown Maker
1939 | Heidelberg, Germany
Kronthal Identification Cards
Unknown Maker
20th century | USA
Kippah; Yarmulke
Unknown Artist
1940s | Japan
Kimono
Unknown Maker
c. 1924 | Germany
Kiddush Cups; Marriage Cups
IK or AK
after 1872 | Vienna, Austro-Hungary
Kiddush Cup
Unknown Maker
Early 20th Century | Salonica
Kamea and Kofya
Mauricio Lasansky
1976 | Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Kaddish Series
Unknown Artist
early 18th century | Italy
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Unknown Manufacturer
1941 | Germany
Jewish Badge
Unknown Maker
1950 | Jerusalem, Israel
Jerusalem, War Destruction
Unknown Maker
1801 | Padua, Italy
Italian Ketubbah
Boris Schatz
20th century | Austria
Isaac Mayer Wise Memorial Plaque
C.J.
1868 | Central Europe
Interior of Altneu Synagogue, Prague
David Bennett
1981-1982 | Germany
Illustrations to the Old Testament (Noah and the Dove)
Ken Aptekar
1996 | United States
I am seven years old
2nd Floor Landing | Currently on view
Jakob Steinhardt
1938 | Palestine
History of the Hebrew Alphabet
Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert
1947-1948 | Jerusalem
Havdalah Set
Todros Geller
1928 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Hassidic Dance
J.C. Osthues
Late 19th-Early 20th Century | Muenster, Germany
Hanukkah Lamp with Tray
Unknown Artist
18th Century | Germany or Bohemia
Hanukkah Lamp for the Synagogue (Hanukiah)
Abraham bar Jacob
1712 | Amsterdam
Haggadah shel Pesah
Unknown Maker
ca. 1925 | Poland
Gordonia Badge
Unknown Maker
ca. 1935-ca. 1939 | Unknown Origin
Good Luck Token
Unknown Maker
Early 20th Century | France
Gold Pocket Watch on Chain
Milton Bradley Company
1908 | Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
Game of Bible Objects
Ben Shahn
1965 | New York, United States
Frederick Douglass
Issachar Ber Ryback
1934 | France
Folk Dance
Unknown Maker
Early 20th Century | Russia
Fish-Shaped Spice Container
Unknown Maker
late 19th century | Unknown Origin
Fan
Charles B. McGarrahan
1940 | New York, United States
Ex Libris
GM
ca. 1900 | Budapest, Austro-Hungary
Etrog Container
Curt Frankenstein
ca. 1970-2000 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Etching Plate: The Optimists versus the Pessimists
Unknown Maker
18th Century | Italy: Ancona or Lugo
Esther Scroll (Megillat Esther)
Yaacov Agam
1974 | Paris, France
End to End
Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg fur die besetzten Gebiete
c. 1939 | Germany
Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) Photograph
Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co.
Early 20th Century | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Dina Halpern’s Theater Trunk
Reemtsma
1933 | Hamburg, Germany
Deutschland Erwacht
Unknown Maker
1919 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Delegate's Pin
Unknown Manufacturer
ca. 1920s | USA?
Deck of Jewish Playing Cards
David Tartakover
1978 | Israel
David Ben Gurion
Unknown Maker
1903 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Cornerstone of Chicago Hebrew Institute
Unknown Maker
604-561 BCE | Babylon
Clay Cylinder
Otto & Reynders
late 19th century | USA
Circumcision Set
Adolph Gottlieb
1972 | New York, United States
Chrome Green
Unknown Maker
Early 19th Century | Iran (Persia)
Child's Robe
Unknown Manufacturer
1939 | Germany
Child Identity Card of Erich Grunebaum
Seymour Rosofsky
1970 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Child and Man
Unknown Maker
1913 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Charter Document of the Fastover American Progressive Aid Society
Hebrew Publishing Company
1913 | New York, United States
Songsheet: Chantshe in America
Unknown Artist
1947 | Germany
Caroline’s Dollhouse
Unknown Maker
1872-1922 | Vienna, Austro-Hungary
Candlesticks
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung mbH
1940s | Germany
Can of Zyklon B
Unknown Manufacturer
1907 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Campaign Pin for Adolph J. Sabath
Unknown Artist
1758 | Vienna
Burial Society Comb (Hevra Kaddisha Comb)
Melanie Cahen Levy
Early 20th Century | Germany
Burial Shrouds
Benno Elkan
Early 20th Century | Germany
Bronze Hanukkah Lamp
Fr. Vester & Co.
Early 20th Century | Jerusalem, Palestine
Box with Relief Map of Jerusalem
Marc Chagall
1968 | Paris, France
L’oiseau bleu (The Blue Bird)
Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts
1911 | Jerusalem
Bezalel Writing Set
Zev Raban, Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts
1916 - 1925 | Eretz Yisrael / Israel
Bezalel Ark (Aron)
Unknown Maker
19th Century | Ottoman Empire
Bedspread; Sukkah Curtain; Torah Ark Curtain
Yigael Tumarkin
1973 | Israel
Bar Lev Line
Unknown Artist
1897 | Iraq
Baghdadi Torah Case (Tik)
Rudolph Weisenborn
1959 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Avalanche
Unknown Manufacturer
Before 1945 | Germany or Poland
Auschwitz Prisoner's Uniform
Unknown Maker
18th-19th century | Iran (Persia)
Arm Bracelets
Laura Cowan
2008 | Israel
Apollo Mezuzah
1st Floor Vestibule | Currently on view
Unknown Artist
1933 - 1945 | Germany
Antisemitic Poster
Auguste-Alexandre Hirsch
late 19th century | France
An Important Lesson
Unknown Maker
19th Century | North Africa
Amuletic Necklace (Kamea)
Unknown Maker
17th century | Unknown Origin
Amulet (Kamea)
Bloch Publishing Company
ca. 1900-1930 | New York, United States
Alphonse Levy
W&R
ca. 1827 | Birmingham, England
Alms Container (Tzedakah Box)
Anna Ticho
mid-20th century | Israel
After the War
Unknown Artist
19th Century | Yemen
Adenite Torah Crown (Keter)
Irving Petlin
1989 | USA
Abraham’s Wagon…The Stable in Cairo
Unknown Maker
1992 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Honorary Street Sign
Nicole Gordon
2000 | United States
A Good Place to Begin
3rd Floor Hallway | Currently on view
Vera Klement
1994 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Plus and Minus
