An anti-Semitic manuscript owned by the Board of Deputies of British Jews for nearly a century is to be auctioned at Christie’s in London on June 6. “Human Sacrifice among the Sephardine [sic] or Eastern Jews,” by Victorian adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton, is expected to fetch between $210,000 and $280,000.
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