A 15th-century Haggadah bought in April for more than $1 million was donated to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The First Nuremberg Haggadah, written and illustrated in Germany in 1449 by a man known as Joel ben Simeon, was purchased by New York collector Erica Jesselson at a Sotheby’s auction in Tel Aviv.
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