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.

8th Century Judaeo-Persian letter from Kaifeng, Henan province, China

One of the earliest records of the Jewish community in China • British Library

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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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King Solomon

North French Hebrew Miscellany • The British Library

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