The Jewish Museum

Jewish Britain

A History in 50 Objects

Family and home life

Our collections represent life within the home, and include domestic items used in the kitchens of immigrant Jewish families in the East End, and personal photographs taken both in the UK and countries of origin.

Family and home life

Traditional Eastern style coffee set from Aden, brought to the UK by a Jewish family forced to flee their home country following the Six Day War in 1967

Coffee set from Aden

Medieval mikveh dating from the 13th century, discovered on a building site in the City of London in 2001

Medieval mikveh

Photograph album documenting the life of the Solomons family in Hackney during the 1930s.

Photograph album belonging to the Solomons family

Collection box made by the Jewish furniture firm S Hille in 1924

Jewish National Fund collecting box, 1924

Lokshen-making machine brought to England from Russia by a Jewish woman who emigrated at the end of the 19th century

Lokshen-making machine