Among the rare bookss, manuscripts and ceremonial objects being displayed by the Hebrew Union College at the Municipal and Industrial Exposition are a page from the Gutenberg Bible printed in Mainz, Germany, 1450-55; the first dated Latin edition of the Bible, published in Augsburg in 1470, and a Dutch silver ark of the Torah from the eighteenth century.
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