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Mon-Fri 11am-6pm, Sun 10am-6pm; ?5.34. Mº Hotel-de-Ville . The Hotel de Saint-Aignan, at 71 rue du Temple, is the new home of the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaisme . Opened in 1998, the museum owns the Dreyfus archives, the collections of the now closed Musee d'Art Juif in Montmartre and also pieces collected by Isaac Strauss, composer and former conductor of the Paris Opera orchestra. The museum's collection illustrates the culture, history, religion and artistic endeavours of the Jewish people in all parts of Europe and North Africa from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Among the highlights is a gilded Italian circumcision chair, one of only three surviving chairs of its kind from the early eighteenth century; an unbelievably well-preserved and completely intact nineteenth-century Austrian Sukkah , a makeshift hut erected for the Feast of the Tabernacles; and a Torah case from Shanghai. Throughout the museum are vast collections of prayer books, Hannukkah lamps, wedding garments, rings, and gorgeous, almost whimsical, spice containers, plus paintings by Marc Chagall, among others, which are as valuable for their subject matter - daily Jewish life - as for their artistic merits. The collection comes to a rather abrupt end with a tribute by Christian Boltanski to the hotel's former inhabitants, Jewish artisans, who lost their lives to the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s. Their names, dates, and birthplaces inscribed on paper rectangles, approximately the size of bricks, are posted on the walls of a tiny courtyard, echoing the death announcements posted on the walls of towns in Eastern Europe.
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