Entries Tagged as 'Torah scroll'

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Menachem Youlus - “The Indiana Jones of Torah Scribes”

“Reached for comment about the Auschwitz Torah, Poland’s chief rabbi, American Michael Schudrich, responds in an e-mail: “I cannot confirm anything that Menachem has written. I do not know the people he is referring to.” Youlus’s discovery is also a mystery to Tomasz Kuncewicz, director of the Auschwitz Jewish Center, which cares for the Oswiecim […]

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Monday, November 9th, 2009

730-year-old Torah scroll @ Sotheby’s

“The oldest complete Spanish Torah scroll will be up for sale at Sotheby’s Judaica auction on November 24. The scroll, the only Spanish Torah to include the kabbalistic traditions of curved letters, has an estimated worth of $300,000-$500,000.
The scroll is written in typical 13th-to-14th century Central Northern Spanish style Hebrew script. Reisman points specifically to […]

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