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The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art is the main project of the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Index is the world’s largest repository of documentation of Jewish material culture which constantly continues to grow. Currently, the Index includes more than 400,000 images from ca. 800 museums, libraries, private collections and synagogues all over the world, as well as architectural plans of ca. 1,700 synagogues documented in situ. The images are classified according to their iconographical subject, type of objects, origin, date, style, community, etc. The Index currently contains six thematic divisions: Historic Synagogues of Europe, Catalogue of Wall Paintings in Central and East European Synagogues (by Boris Khaimovich), Catalogue of Illuminated Esther Scrolls (by Dagmara Budzioch), Slovenian Jewish Heritage, Gross Family Collection, and Kurt and Ursula Schubert Archive of Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts.

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The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art, Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art is the main project of the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Index is the world’s largest repository of documentation of Jewish material culture which constantly continues to grow. Currently, the Index includes more than 400,000 images from ca. 800 museums, libraries, private collections and synagogues all over the world, as well as architectural plans of ca. 1,700 synagogues documented in situ. The images are classified according to their iconographical subject, type of objects, origin, date, style, community, etc. The Index currently contains six thematic divisions: Historic Synagogues of Europe, Catalogue of Wall Paintings in Central and East European Synagogues (by Boris Khaimovich), Catalogue of Illuminated Esther Scrolls (by Dagmara Budzioch), Slovenian Jewish Heritage, Gross Family Collection, and Kurt and Ursula Schubert Archive of Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts.

(Description adapted from information on project website)