Judaica
Hebrew religious objects
Judaica refers to objects, artifacts, and materials relating to Jewish culture, religion, and history.
The term covers ritual items like menorahs, mezuzahs, and Seder plates, as well as books, manuscripts, artwork, and decorative objects with Jewish themes: The museum's Judaica collection spans five centuries.
Collectors and dealers use the term for the category as a whole.
Judaism's core scripture
- TalmudRabbinic law compilation
- halachaJewish legal ruling
- MishnahCodified Jewish oral law
- MidrashRabbinic biblical commentary tradition
Kabbalah · rabbi · mitzvah · messianism · eschatology · aggadah · mussar · commentary
Jewish house of worship
- tallitFringed Jewish worship garment
- tefillinJewish prayer boxes worn daily
- kippahTraditional Jewish head covering
- mezuzahCased scripture on doorframe
shofar · menorah · siddur · kiddush · havdalah · mikvah · challah · sukkah
Triply sacred ancient capital
- Tel AvivIsraeli Mediterranean port city
- HaifaIsraeli coastal metropolis
- NegevDesert in Israel
- GalileeBiblical northern territory
Knesset · aliyah · kibbutz · sabra · Dead Sea · Western Wall · Masada · shekel
Scattered population sharing origins
- AshkenaziJews of European descent
- SephardiJew of Iberian descent
- shtetlHistoric Jewish village
- YiddishAshkenazi Jewish language
Ladino · antisemitism · pogrom · Holocaust · ghetto · emancipation · genealogy · Shoah
Jewish infant circumcision ceremony
- bar mitzvahJewish adulthood ceremony
- bat mitzvahFemale Jewish adulthood rite
- chuppahJewish wedding canopy
- ketubahJewish matrimonial agreement
shiva · yahrzeit · breaking glass · mohel
Torah
Judaism's core scripture
Midrash · Kabbalah · rabbi · mitzvah · messianism · eschatology · aggadah · mussar · commentary
synagogue
Jewish house of worship
- tallitFringed Jewish worship garment
- tefillinJewish prayer boxes worn daily
- kippahTraditional Jewish head covering
mezuzah · shofar · menorah · siddur · kiddush · havdalah · mikvah · challah · sukkah · yarmulke
Jerusalem
Triply sacred ancient capital
Galilee · Knesset · aliyah · kibbutz · sabra · Dead Sea · Western Wall · Masada · shekel · Hebrew
diaspora
Scattered population sharing origins
Yiddish · Ladino · antisemitism · pogrom · Holocaust · ghetto · emancipation · genealogy · Shoah · remembrance
brit milah
Jewish infant circumcision ceremony
- bar mitzvahJewish adulthood ceremony
- bat mitzvahFemale Jewish adulthood rite
- chuppahJewish wedding canopy
ketubah · shiva · yahrzeit · breaking glass · mohel
aleph
Hebrew alphabet's beginning
lamed · nun · ayin · shin · script · calligraphy · sofer · scroll · ketubah
pareve
Neither meat nor dairy
- shechitaJewish butchering practice
- kosher saltCoarse culinary sodium crystals
- schmaltzPoultry fat or sentimentality
- Israeli artshora, klezmer
- Jewish Diasporadispersion, Ashkenazi Jews, crypto-Jews, Babylonian exile, scattered
- Judaicamenorah, Torah scroll, Talmud, Torah study, mezuzah
- Italian JewsVenice ghetto
- Reform JudaismProgressive Jewish religious movement
- Orthodox JudaismStrict adherence to Mosaic law
- Hellenistic JudaismJewish faith shaped by Greek culture
- Reformed JudaismProgressive Jewish religious movement
- Conservative JudaismModerate Jewish religious movement
- secular JudaismJewish identity without religious belief