The National Library of Israel has just acquired the largest private collection of Hebrew books and manuscripts in the world — including rare treasures such as a 1491 chumash from Lisbon, Portugal, and one of only two surviving copies of a 1556 Passover Haggadah from Prague. The complex deal for the famed Valmadonna Trust Library,…
It was the highest price ever paid for a Jewish book. And the sale, along with 11 other books, broke up the most valuable private Judaica collection ever assembled. How much further the famed Valmadonna Trust Library may be broken up is unclear—and remains a concern of scholars and collectors around the world. The book…
A 16th-century Talmud garnered a record auction price for Judaica, selling for $9.3 million. The copy of Daniel Bomberg’s Babylonian Talmud was sold at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday to Stephan Loewentheil of the 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop, the auction house announced in a news release. READ: World’s Largest Judaica Trove…
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