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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 430

Kedem Auction House

One of Carl Jung's many letters to his student, Dr. Rivkah Schärf Kluger. (Kedem Auction House)
May 20, 2022, 1:48 pm
Letters by Jung showing interest in Jewish texts up for auction
While most of the collection, addressed to psychoanalyst Rivkah Schärf Kluger, deals with psychiatry, some never-before-seen letters show Jung’s fascination with Hebrew writings
By ToI Staff
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
A photograph of the port city of Jaffa taken from the sea by P. Bergheim, circa 1860. (Library of Congress)
May 8, 2021, 4:00 pm
186-year-old account of US diplomatic visit to Holy Land surfaces at auction
Letter is from passenger on US Navy ship that moored in Jaffa in 1834; when told he couldn’t visit J’lem: ‘Like Moses, we are only permitted to see Promised Land but not enter it’
By Asaf Shalev
A ledger From Bergen-Belsen's Rabbinical Court for 'chained' spouses in wake of the Holocaust (Kedem Auction House)
December 3, 2019, 5:35 pm
Sale of Bergen-Belsen ledger of eyewitness accounts of Jewish deaths put on hold
Association of survivors of Nazi camp had denounced planned auction as ‘trade in the Holocaust,’ saying documents don’t belong in private hands
By Marcy Oster
A handwritten and signed letter by Jewish-German physicist Albert Einstein, from June 1950, discussing his work on unified field theory, to be offered for auction by the Kedem Auction House, 2019. (Courtesy: Kedem Auction House)
November 28, 2019, 2:14 pm
Einstein letter on elusive theory of everything to go up for auction
Handwritten, signed document from 1950 was sent to his former assistant and scientific partner Ernst Gabor Strauss, discusses physicist’s early work on unified field theory
By Stuart Winer
A ledger From Bergen-Belsen's Rabbinical Court for 'chained' spouses in wake of the Holocaust (Kedem Auction House)
November 27, 2019, 1:34 pm
Ledger with testimonies to help Bergen-Belsen survivors remarry up for sale
Statements describe deaths of Jews in Holocaust collected by rabbis at end of WWII to prevent surviving spouses from becoming ‘chained’ and unable to remarry
By ToI Staff
One of the 12 draft pages of Israel's Declaration of Independence that the High Court of Justice has ruled must be handed over to the state archives (Courtesy of Kedem Auction House)
May 21, 2019, 4:31 pm
Supreme Court rules drafts of Declaration of Independence can’t go under hammer
Overturning lower court decision, justices say family of attorney who composed documents does not own them; papers to be handed over to state archives
By ToI Staff
In the heat of battle during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. (Courtesy of the USHMM)
May 2, 2019, 2:40 pm
‘We won’t die as slaves’: Early account of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising emerges
Newspaper article on revolt, printed underground by Jewish resistance group and distributed in September 1943, describes ‘determined’ militia ‘fighting to the last’
By ToI Staff
Albert Einstein, at home in Princeton, New Jersey, June, 1954. (AP Photo, File)
November 14, 2018, 1:53 am
Einstein letter warning of German anti-Semitism auctioned for nearly $40,000
Newly revealed letter shows a fearful Einstein long before Nazis’ rise; the handwritten note fetches more than double its estimated value
By AP
A file photo shows an employee of the Kedem Auction House in Jerusalem showing the flag of the iconic ship the SS Exodus, November 15, 2015. (AFP/MENAHEM KAHANA)
January 21, 2016, 5:16 pm
Flag from iconic ‘Exodus’ refugee ship to dock in US museum
Two Jewish American brothers buy artifact for $144,000, donate it to Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington
By AFP
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