The Treasures

Discover highlights from our featured archives. Learn more about these rare images, photographs, documents and artefacts relating to Jewish life in Britain. We are adding new treasures all the time.
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Yiddish Typewriter

Yiddish Typewriter belonging to the playwright Abish Meisels

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Great Tailor’s Strike Balance Sheet

Balance sheet: income & expenditures of the Great Strike of East London tailors, YIVO

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Portrait of Prince Philip by Ralph Heimans

Portrait of Prince Philip at 96

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York Commodity Bond

Bond produced following the Statute of the Jewry (1275) • Hull History Centre

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Mosse Mokke in league with the Devil

A receipt roll for heavy Jewish taxation • The National Archives

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Elena Lederman’s Chocolates

Celebrity chocolatier Elena Lederman with Elizabeth Taylor • AJR Refugee Voices

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The piano outside Lichtewerden

Pianist Natalia Karp's liberation from Lichtewerden camp • AJR Refugee Voices Archive

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Open Letter Against the Mistreatment of Jews in Europe

British voices ask for action in The Daily Worker & The Times • The National Archives

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Eva Rott’s Slave Labour Ring

Ring made by Eva Rott at the Heinkel aircraft factory • Imperial War Museum

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Sir Nicholas Winton’s ring

Commemorative ring presented to Sir Nicholas Winton • Sir Nicholas Winton Archive

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It’s Hard To Be A Jew

Grand Palais Theatre Poster • Jewish Museum London

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Spiritual Possibilities of Judaism Today

Essay by Lily Montagu, 1898

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