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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 567

art theft

Sarah Minnich as Rita Alter and Glenn Howerton as Jerry Alter in 'The Thief Collector.' (Courtesy Museum & Crane)
June 2, 2022, 3:56 am
The ‘ordinary’ Jewish retirees behind a $160M art heist – and who knows what else
Alison Otto’s documentary ‘The Thief Collector’ posthumously examines the lives of Jerry and Rita Alter, who were found to have a priceless missing painting. But it gets stranger
By Rich Tenorio
Police recovered several bins of Judaica from the house of Pittsburgh resident Andrew Clinton, on April 21, 2022. (David Rullo/Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA)
April 30, 2022, 4:42 am
Pittsburgh man charged with stealing Judaica from dozens of Jewish homes
Hamsa amulets, menorahs, books, miniature Israeli flags and even family photos among trove of items recovered
By JTA
The Poussin painting seized from the home of an antiques dealer Handout Carabinieri (Press Office/AFP)
April 1, 2021, 4:36 pm
Poussin painting stolen by Nazis found in Italy, returned to French Jewish owner
Baroque painter’s ‘Lot with his two daughters serving him drinks’ was seized from home of an antiques dealer near Padua
By AFP
A picture taken on April 9, 2019, shows one of the rooms in the Green Vault (Gruenes Goelbe) at the Royal Palace in Dresden, Germany. (Sebastian Kahnert/dpa/AFP)
November 17, 2020, 11:59 am
2 arrested in raids connected to spectacular German museum jewelry theft
Operation coordinated by police, prosecutors investigating the 2019 theft of a large diamond brooch, a diamond epaulette and other treasures from Dresden’s Green Vault Museum
By David Rising
Two people look at the glass door which was smashed during a break-in at the Singer Museum in Laren, Netherlands, March 30, 2020 (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
March 30, 2020, 6:38 pm
Van Gogh stolen from Dutch museum closed due to virus
‘Spring Garden’ nabbed from Singer Laren museum east of Amsterdam in overnight raid
By AP
An Italian Policeman, left, and a Carabiniere, paramilitary police officer, stand beside a painting which was found last December near an art gallery and believed to be the missing Gustav Klimt's painting ‘Portrait of a Lady’ during a press conference in Piacenza, Italy, Jan. 17, 2020 (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
January 18, 2020, 11:07 am
Painting found stashed in wall of Italian museum confirmed to be stolen Klimt
Experts authenticate century-old artwork which went missing in February 1997 while the gallery was closed for work
By Agencies
The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, January 21, 2015. (AP Photo/John Antczak,)
August 1, 2018, 12:00 pm
Court lets California museum keep Nazi-looted art
US appeals court rules that seized masterpieces need not be given to relatives of original Jewish owners
By AP
Illustrative: The Holy Family with St Anne by Rubens. One of the paintings in the Holy Family series was stolen in Italy by a man dressed as a rabbi (Wikimedia/Creative Commons)
July 20, 2018, 11:39 pm
Italian police recover Renoir and Rubens from heist involving ‘diplomatic rabbi’
Authorities in northern Italy unveil the recovered paintings; heist blamed on Croatian man disguised as Jewish cleric
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: The Holy Family with St Anne by Rubens. One of the paintings in the Holy Family series was stolen in Italy by a man dressed as a rabbi (Wikimedia/Creative Commons)
June 15, 2018, 11:44 pm
Croatian man dressed up like a rabbi for $30 million art heist in Italy
Nenad Jovanovic poses as a rabbi and an Israeli diplomat to steal a Rubens and a Renoir, which have not been recovered
By JTA
The Louvre courtyard and pyramid. (Wikipedia/Alvesgaspar/CC BY-SA)
February 12, 2018, 6:28 pm
France returns Nazi-looted art to Jewish family
Three Renaissance paintings given to descendants of Herta and Henry Bromberg, who were forced to sell them in 1938 to flee Europe
By AFP
Pastoral, Henri Matisse, 1905 (WikiArt)
February 1, 2017, 1:04 pm
Picasso, Matisse and other art from 2010 Paris heist may be in Israel
‘Spiderman’ burglar on trial over $100m haul of five paintings; one accomplice suspected of selling them to Israeli collector
By AFP and ToI Staff
Portrait of Adriaen Moens by Anthony van Dyck (Courtesy)
January 28, 2017, 12:32 am
German firm returning looted painting by Dutch master
‘Portrait of Adriaen Moens’ will be given back to sole living descendant of Jewish art collector who fled Nazi Germany
By JTA
Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky, left, with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. (Wikimedia commons/kremlin.ru)
December 16, 2016, 7:43 pm
Did Russia meddle in recent US art theft legislation?
New congressionally approved bills provide immunity from seizure of foreign works on loan in the States. As one critic alleges the Hermitage had undue influence, is it just a case of jumping on the anti-Russia bandwagon?
By Rich Tenorio
The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, January 21, 2015. (AP Photo/John Antczak,)
August 23, 2016, 4:47 pm
Nazi-looted ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’ paintings to stay in California
Ending 10-year legal battle, US court rules that seized masterpieces need not be given to relatives of original Jewish owners
By AP
US Ambassador John Tefft speaks at a ceremony at the ambassador's residence in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 3, 2016, during which the US returned nearly 30 stolen archival documents from the 18th and 19th centuries to the Russian government. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
March 4, 2016, 3:47 am
US recovers historic Russian documents, some said stolen by Israeli
Moscow accuses antiques dealer Vladimir Feinberg, now in Israel, of stealing 4 of the items returned to Russia by US officials Thursday
By KATHERINE JACOBSEN
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