The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is the largest art museum in America and the third most visited in the world. This image shows the totality of all Jewish artefacts on display in the museum: one panel in the Byzantine Empire gallery. You should be able to enlarge the image and read the labels. There is nothing from Jewish history of the Middle East, the Near East, or even Europe in their halls. Some art historians suggest that during the centuries of diaspora persecution, Jewish artefacts were much less likely to survive; synagogue relics were not as safe as those kept in churches or mosques. There are many museums in the New York City area dedicated to Jewish art and history, which may be receiving a disproportionate share of the limited number of available exhibits.
