The exhibition «Chain of tradition» provides a broad overview of Jewish history-writing tradition. Eight books presented at the exhibition belong to the Schneerson collection. Some of these volumes, published in eighteenth-nineteenth centuries, bear inscriptions and stamps of Schneerson family members. Exhibition highlights include the 1743 Amsterdam edition of Sefer Yosippon famous for its beautiful illustrations. Sefer Yosippon covers Jewish history from the Creation of the world to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. Jewish tradition of history-writing, which emerged after the destruction of the Second Temple, approached history of Jewish people as a cycle of destruction and restoration. Traditional Jewish historiography saw the past and contemporary events through lens of the Hebrew Bible, essentially a sacred history of the Jewish people. Thus post-Biblical history of the Jews was traditionally described and explained in terms of Biblical history, as if Jewish historical time had been frozen. The exhibition «Chain of tradition» is a window on traditional, ahistorical approach to Jewish history, on the work of early Jewish historians, and on their books.