An anonymous donor offered the Board of Deputies of British Jews $105,000 to keep an anti-Semitic manuscript under lock and key indefinitely. Last month, the Board tried to auction “Human Sacrifice among the Sephardine (sic) Jews,” by the Victorian adventurer Sir Richard Burton, but the manuscript failed to sell at Christie’s.
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