Judaica

Boston museum pays $500K for rare Torah ornaments

The high price reflects their “rarity, beauty and the level of craftsmanship.”

By Penny Schwartz June 12, 2019 5:12 pm

How this pristine 15th-century Hebrew Bible survived the Inquisition

For centuries, librarians at Portugal's University of Coimbra library hid Jewish texts from Catholic fanatics and censors.

October 18, 2017 1:15 pm

Dutch war hero’s family sells Hanukkah lamp for record $440,000

The 270-year-old menorah belonging to the family of Dutch Jewish resistance fighter George Maduro was sold in The Hague for 30 times more than its estimated worth.

November 22, 2016 7:02 am

4 stolen Torahs mysteriously returned to Brooklyn synagogue

October 28, 2016 11:38 am

After 50 years, Judaica damaged in Florence flood restored, exhibited

October 23, 2016 4:32 am

Scottish rabbi hawks ‘kosher’ tartan celebrating Scottish, Jewish heritage

March 29, 2016 4:29 pm

16th-century Talmud sells for record $9.3 million

December 23, 2015 2:12 pm

Judaica store manager assaulted outside Manhattan shop

December 1, 2015 4:50 pm

Judaica studio Mi Polin casts Polish Jewish history in bronze

By Katarzyna Markusz October 15, 2015 4:45 pm

At European art fair, collectors increasingly seek Jewish objects

By Menachem Wecker March 20, 2015 3:38 pm

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