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April 27, 2016
The Ongoing Saga of the Birds’-Head Haggadah
A lawsuit over the fate of a medieval manuscript.
The oldest extant illuminated manuscript of the Haggadah—the odd title derives from its drawings of humans with the heads of birds—has been in the possession of the Israel Museum for seven decades, and normally goes on display around Passover. But it came to the museum under irregular circumstances, and now Eli Barzilai, whose German-Jewish grandparents possessed the manuscript when the Nazis came to power, is seeking restitution. The Associated Press reports:
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The Ongoing Saga of the Birds’-Head Haggadah
A lawsuit over the fate of a medieval manuscript.