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COLLECTIONS
THE DAWN OF JEWISH PRINTING : Rare incunabula printings demonstrate how the printing press helped shape Jewish destiny as “People of the Book”.
JEWISH LIFE THROUGH THE AGES: Artifacts including antique tefillin and tzitzit, illustrated Haggadahs, and the influential Book of Customs from 18th Century Amsterdam.
THE TALMUD TAKES SHAPE : The 500-year-old evolution of the printing of the Talmud—from Bomberg and Soncino to the modern ‘Vilna Shas’—tells a dramatic story of intrigue and perseverance.
THE TRIUMPH OF SURVIVAL : Relics bearing witness to early Jewish persecution and oppression; censored books and ghetto documents from the Middle Ages and surviving remnants of the Holocaust.
CHARTING THE HOLYLAND : Famed cartographers from The Renaissance Era map the Holy Land in striking detail using wood cut illustrations.
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