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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 569

Judaica

Congregants of the 104-year-old Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, which burned down in the Eaton fire, gather at the First United Methodist Church in Pasadena, California on April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
April 10, 2025, 6:18 pm
Jewish families channel Passover story after devastating losses in LA wildfires
As displaced communities reflect on costs of disaster before Seder, director of 104-year old synagogue wrecked by fire says congregants, too, are wandering in the desert this year
By DEEPA BHARATH
A kiddush cup, dating to the 11th or 12th century, with an inscription bearing the name of its owner, Simcha son of Salman. (Courtesy of Sotheby's)
April 4, 2025, 10:56 am
Kiddush cup dating back to reign of Ghengis Khan to go up for auction
One-of-a-kind artifact bears Arabic and Hebrew inscription of owner’s name, Simcha son of Salman, and is oldest known piece of Judaica from Middle Ages, according to Sotheby’s
By Grace Gilson
Or, a solider fighting in Gaza, displays a seder plate he found in the territory. (Courtesy via JTA)
July 6, 2024, 8:52 am
Israeli soldiers are finding Judaica in Gaza — and trying to locate the items’ owners
A seder plate, Hanukkah menorahs and other ritual objects have been discovered during the IDF’s ongoing ground incursion in the Strip, raising a legal and moral dilemma for troops
By Deborah Danan
A pair of Torah finials crafted by silversmith Abraham de Oliveyra in the 18th century. (Courtesy Jewish Museum and Museum of Fine Arts)
August 11, 2023, 11:34 am
300-year-old Sephardic Torah ornaments to be displayed at US museums for 1st time
Works by Abraham de Oliveyra, the first known licensed Jewish silversmith in London, are bought jointly by Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and NYC Jewish Museum
By Penny Schwartz
(JTA illustration)
March 28, 2023, 12:47 am
Inside the New York auction house driving the rare-book craze in the Orthodox world
Behavior that confounds veterans of the rare Jewish book market has become routine at auctions organized by Genazym as it taps into emerging luxury market among Orthodox Jews
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky in the northern Israeli city of Safed, February 26, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)
February 26, 2023, 12:21 pm
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky’s pants taken off auction site
Prime Judaica had planned to put authenticated item of clothing under hammer; one collector tells New York Post he planned to buy item and rent it out
By ToI Staff and JTA
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky at his home in the city of Bnei Brak, on July 15, 2021. (Yaakov Nahumi/Flash90)
February 23, 2023, 10:47 am
Torn pants of late Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky up for auction
Starting bid set by New Jersey auctioneers at $3,200; garment comes with letter of confirmation from ultra-Orthodox leader’s grandson confirming he wore them for ‘a long time’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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
Arthur Kurzweil first encountered amulets and dreidels excavated by treasure hunters during a trip to his father's hometown in Poland. Now he has collected thousands of them. (Photo by Shira Hanau/JTA; background courtesy Kurzweil)
December 2, 2021, 1:16 am
A Jewish writer has 4,000 tiny dreidels found by Eastern European treasure hunters
Traditional Hanukkah tops collected by Arthur Kurzweil are pulled from the earth in the Old Country; they have little monetary value, but their historical significance is priceless
By Shira Hanau
The Luzzatto High Holiday Mahzor (Sotheby's via JTA)
October 21, 2021, 8:39 am
Medieval Jewish prayer book goes for near-record $8.3m in controversial sale
Efforts made to stop auction, as some call on France to declare book a national treasure; sale to private collector points to precarious state of some public Judaica collections
By Asaf Shalev
Burial society records from Miskolc, Hungary, between 1934-1942 that were saved from an August 24, 2021 auction by the National Library of Israel and the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives. (Courtesy Kedem Auction House)
September 6, 2021, 4:38 pm
Pre-Holocaust Jewish communal records saved from the auction block
Documents detailing births, deaths and marriages dating back to the 19th century are purchased by the National Library of Israel and the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives
By Yaakov Schwartz
Jewish communal documents removed from book bindings, beginning of the 16th century (Bidspirit)
August 30, 2021, 4:50 am
Are online sales of pre-Holocaust communal records their doom or salvation?
After decades of silence about eastern European Jewish community documents ‘abandoned’ during World War II, the issue has started to ruffle feathers, from Brooklyn to Budapest
By Matt Lebovic
Israel Museum curator Sharon Weiser-Ferguson with items from the Jewish Art and Life wing, some donated by his parents in memory of Yadin Tanenbaum, who fell in the Yom Kippur War (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
April 14, 2021, 1:30 pm
‘Israeliana’ display at Israel Museum showcases country’s early memorabilia
A family’s collection in memory of their fallen son brings new area of interest to Jerusalem institution, even if it’s not considered ‘art’
By Jessica Steinberg
A pair of English parcel-gilt silver Torah finials, from 1764, by British silversmith Edward Aldridge, was acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston at a Sotheby’s Judaica auction in New York. (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts/via JTA)
June 13, 2019, 1:03 pm
Boston museum pays $500,000 for ‘exceptionally early’ Torah ornaments
Price for exquisitely made 17th-century finials, designed to adorn the top handles of Torah scrolls, reflect their ‘rarity, beauty, craftsmanship,’ says curator
By Penny Schwartz
J. Levine Co. Books and Judaica in Midtown Manhattan (Facebook)
April 25, 2019, 11:56 pm
One of Manhattan’s 3 remaining Judaica stores is closing
Fourth-generation owner of J. Levine Co. Books and Judaica cites rising popularity of online shopping
By Josefin Dolsten
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