The death certificate of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson — the revered Chabad leader often referred to as “the Rebbe” — is on the auction block. The official certificate, issued Aug. 2, 1995, and mailed by the New York Department of Health to Schneerson’s niece in Israel, is being auctioned by Virtual Judaica on its website…
Judaica and other items belonging to the influential late rabbi-musician Shlomo Carlebach will be auctioned next month. The Feb. 29 auction at J. Greenstein & Co.’s Auction House in Cedarhurst, New York, will also include Judaica owned by Harvard law professor and author Alan Dershowitz. In all, the auction will feature 268 “rare and valuable…
A piece of civil rights history with a poignant link to a New Jersey Jewish community is going on the auction block. A signed program from a 1963 Shabbat sermon delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Temple Sha’arey Shalom in Springfield, New Jersey is available for sale at Lelands Auction in an online…
A 16th-century Talmud garnered a record auction price for Judaica, selling for $9.3 million. The copy of Daniel Bomberg’s Babylonian Talmud was sold at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday to Stephan Loewentheil of the 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop, the auction house announced in a news release. READ: World’s Largest Judaica Trove…
That naked bodies existed in the mid-18th century goes without saying. In a world where even Vogue finds its way to discussing tznius, the biblically-inspired modesty that has tended to be applied overwhelmingly to women’s attire, however, some may be surprised to learn that naked female bodies surface in illustrations adorning margins of religious Jewish…
The heirs of a French Jewish art dealer killed in a Nazi concentration camp will get a piece of the upcoming sale at Christie’s of a Monet painting looted by the Nazis and acquired after the war by a Swiss collector. The painting, “Haystacks at Giverny,” was painted by Claude Monet in 1885 and is…
Art and memorabilia that belonged to the late Hollywood film star Lauren Bacall sold for $3.6 million during a two-day sale, according to Bonhams auction house. Proceeds from the marathon auction which ended late Wednesday and two bronze sculptures by British artist Henry Moore that were sold earlier at an Impressionist and Modern Art sale…
A Los Angeles gallery is auctioning a painting by Adolf Hitler, with an initial asking price of $30,000. Hitler’s floral still life, painted in 1912 before he entered politics, will be auctioned on Thursday by the Nate D. Sanders gallery. As a teenager and young man, Hitler unsuccessfully pursued an art career and was twice…
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