Say Goodbye to This Treasure Trove of Rare Texts — Until 2018

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Say Goodbye to This Treasure Trove of Rare Texts — Until 2018

 

Josh Nathan-Kazis April 19, 2015

 

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"The greatest collection of rare Jewish historical documents in the United States will be boxed up later this year and put into storage until at least 2018, the Forward has learned.

 

The library at Manhattan’s Jewish Theological Seminary — Conservative Judaism’s largest rabbinic seminary — holds the most impressive compilation of Jewish historical materials outside of Jerusalem: hundreds of ancient Jewish marriage contracts, thousands of unique manuscripts, and tens of thousands of fragments recovered in Egypt from the famed Cairo Genizah."

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