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.

C18 English Machzor

18th century English Machzor (Gaster Miscellaneous MS 1596) • The John Rylands

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Menasseh Ben Israel’s petition to Oliver Cromwell

1655 petition for Jews to be allowed to set up places of worship

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Silver Menorah

Nathan Mayer Rothschild's menorah • The Rothschild Archive

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