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July 29, 2021

How a Famed Jewish Library Put a Two-Century-Old Manuscript Up for Auction

And the sleuth who discovered it.

When an auction house specializing in Judaica released its most recent catalog, the rabbi, translator, and researcher Elli Fischer took a close look at one item, a notebook, that led him to an unexpected discovery. Asaf Shalev reports:

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