Haym Salomon was also one of the founders and main donors to Mikveh Israel, a Philadelphia synagogue still active today, nicknamed the ‘Synagogue of the American Revolution’
Christie’s sold some of late heiress Heidi Horten’s this spring and had scheduled a second sale
Several items from the Holocaust are listed in a New York estate sale, which also includes Nazi uniforms and propoganda
The Codex Sassoon is 1,100 years old and will be on display in New York in May
In the beginning — or make that in the beginning of baseball — there was Lipman Pike. He hailed from a big Jewish family in Brooklyn and in the years following the Civil War, as baseball became a major American sport, he became one of its early stars. He was not just one of the…
A Lebanese-Swiss businessman purchased ten items belonging to Adolf Hitler that were sold at an auction last week so that they didn’t “fall into the wrong hands.” Abdallah Chatila, a Geneva businessman who made his fortune in diamonds and real estate, purchased items including Hitler’s top hat, cigar box and typewriter, and a silver-plated copy…
A military artifact dealer related to victims of the Holocaust is expected to take home millions by selling at auction his personal collection of items that belonged to Adolf Hitler. Craig Gottlieb, who, according to a press release, is of Jewish descent and lost family members in the Shoah, is auctioning off a military visor…
Philip Roth had style, but he liked utilitarian things. He owned many lamps, all easily adjustable and fairly unpretty. His chairs were mostly comfortable and lived-in. He furnished his house with library tables of varying charm, and two radios that could kindly be described as aged. When he died at 85 on May 22, 2018,…
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