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![Demon Bowls](https://cdn.bac.org.il/warehouse/content/pics/pic_18289_a.png)
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![The Island People](https://cdn.bac.org.il/warehouse/content/pics/pic_19337_a.png?update=1701098951900)
![The Papyrus Temple](https://cdn.bac.org.il/warehouse/content/pics/pic_19385_a.png?update=1701167433897)
![Torah Shield](https://cdn.bac.org.il/warehouse/content/pics/pic_19649_a.png?update=1707393993934)
![The Parokhet](https://cdn.bac.org.il/warehouse/content/pics/pic_19682_a.jpg?update=1708347735366)
![A Vase of Memory](https://cdn.bac.org.il/warehouse/content/pics/pic_19681_a.jpg?update=1708347622337)
The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg has one of the world’s greatest collections of art, with more than 3 million artifacts – yet the Jewish treasures of the museum have never been widely known.
Join award-winning author Matti Friedman as he takes us on a rare tour and a glimpse of Jewish history and culture as they appear in the treasures of the Hermitage.
Beit Avi Chai’s Ideas Without Borders presents the first episode of the Let Objects Speak: Jewish Artifacts in Russian Museums series that focuses on Hebrew letters at The Hermitage, where the label “Jewish” cannot always be taken at face value.
Script: Julia Idlis
English script: Matti Friedman
Director: Nina Guseva
Videographer: Maria Falieleeva
Producer: Daria Shtyrkova
Academic Consultant: Shimon Iakerson
Voice-over: Matti Friedman
Music: Masha Logofet
Sound Mix: Alex Nadzharov
Animation: Vadim Tugeev, Galina Palchik
Edit: Evgeniy Todich
Beit Avi Chai is grateful to The State Hermitage Museum for permission to film the artifacts; and for the kind assistance of The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center of Moscow, Alexandra Kiseleva, Collection Supervisor and Elizaveta Zubyuk, Librarian.
Beit Avi Chai: Dr. David Rozenson, CEO; Simon Parizhsky, educational director of the Ideas Without Borders project; Svetlana Busygina, administrative director IWB.