Yeshiva University Museum

After WWII, Yeshiva University received a Judaica collection from the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction (JCR) - an organization that was founded to catalogue, identify, and place Jewish cultural and religious artifacts looted by Nazis during the Holocaust. One elaborately gilded Torah crown was recently restored thanks to a conservation grant received by YUM from the Lower Hudson Conference; it is a beautiful example of Central-Eastern European Judaica craftsmanship of the late 19th or early 20th century. The second crown bears the marks of its battered experience and is still in need of restoration.