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JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s Hebrew University announced Wednesday that it had obtained a “magnificent” collection of Albert Einstein’s manuscripts, shedding new light on the mind and soul of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist ahead of his 140th birthday.
PRAGUE (AP) – A 16th century book that belonged to Prague’s Jewish community before World War II and surfaced at a New York City auction last year was brought back to the Czech Republic on Tuesday.
NEW YORK – In conjunction with the observance of Passover this year, two medieval Hebrew manuscripts are on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art—one at The Met Cloisters and the other at The Met Fifth Avenue. Both works were recently conserved, and are on loan from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) […]
NEW YORK — On May 17, in New York, the Codex Sassoon, the earliest and most complete Hebrew bible extant, dating to the late ninth to early tenth century, sold for a record-breaking $38.1 million – making it the most valuable manuscript ever sold at auction.