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Dear friends!

from 12-22-2024

The Museum’s working hours for 2024/2025 holiday season are as follows: 
28.12, 31.12, 1.01, 4.01, 7.01 - Closed. 
29-30.12, 2-3.01, 5-6.01 - Open for visiting. 
Guided tours are offered (subject to a prier booking) on 29.12, 5.01, and 8.01. 
From the 8.01 the Museum will follow the usual schedule.

Congratulation to the holiday

Happy Hannukah!!!

from 25-12-2024

Dear friends!

The Museum’s working hours for 2024/2025 holiday season are as follows: 
28.12, 31.12, 1.01, 4.01, 7.01 - Closed. 
29-30.12, 2-3.01, 5-6.01 - Open for visiting. 
Guided tours are offered (subject to a prier booking) on 29.12, 5.01, and 8.01. 
From the 8.01 the Museum will follow the usual schedule.

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Military oath of allegiance for the Jews
1900s Chromolithograph on paper. 23 х 15.
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Case for a Torah scroll
Late 19 – early 20 cent. Wood, velvet, leather, and copper with embossing; freshwater pearls and semi-precious stones. Height: 55.7; diameter: 23.
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Tar and kamancha, stringed musical instruments used by the Mountain Jews
First half of 20 cent. Wood. Tar: 86.5 х 15.8 х 16.5. Kamancha: 72.8 х 16 х 17.
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Woman’s holiday khalat – ‘kaltach’
First quarter of 20 cent. Blue satin, adras, and calico. 123 х 71; sleeve length: 51.
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Set of dishes for blessings over wine during the Passover seder
Second half of 19 cent. Embossed silver. Saucer: diameter: 13. Small cups (5 items; shaped as piyalas): Height: 3.5; diameter: 5. Large cup (shaped as piyala): height: 4.5; diameter: 8.5.
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Sketch of the costume of kuni-leml for a production of the theater "Kunst-Vinkl" after the A. Goldfaden's play "The Two Kuni-Lemls"
The mid. 1920's Indian ink and pencil on paper. 36 х 26,3.
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Sketch for the play "Stempenyu" by Sholem Aleichem
1966 Lithography. 75 х 52,5.
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Items for daily use manufactured by Jews in the partisan units of Polesie Belarus. Overshoes
1942 – 1944