The Treasures

Discover highlights from our network of  archives. Learn more about these rare images, photographs, documents and artefacts relating to Jewish life in Britain over the past thousand years. Do you have a treasure you’d like to share? Tell us more here.

Nanino At The Window

1942 painting by Arnold Daghani • Centre for German-Jewish Studies at Sussex University

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The Great Synagogue of London

WW2 bomb damage to the Great Synagogue • London Metropolitan Archives

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Maternal Torah

Sculpture by Jacqueline Nicholls • Ben Uri Gallery

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Jews’ Free School Classroom, 1905

Classroom image from the diary of Samuel Morris Rich • Southampton Anglo-Jewish Archives

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Sukkot in the Jewish Orphanage, Norwood

Children from the Jewish Orphanage, Norwood, celebrate Sukkot • Jewish Museum London

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The Floating Synagogue

The First Floating Synagogue • Jewish Chronicle Archive

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Luton Synagogue

The Empire Cinema, Luton, which become Luton's postwar synagogue

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Berta Klipstein & Her Grandmother

Berta Klipstein & grandmother, Bielska, 1935. • Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association

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Letter to the Duke of Wellington

Letter to the Duke of Wellington • Southampton Anglo-Jewish Archives

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Plans for a Cardiff Synagogue

Cardiff Synagogue Plans • Jewish History Association of South Wales

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Rosh Hashanah Postcard

Rosh Hashanah postcard, Warsaw, late 1920s • Jewish Museum London

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18th Century Shofar

Engraved Shofar • Jewish Museum London

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