Rashi Brings A Record: Italian manuscript fetches $434,000; former Jewish Museum curator gets $353,000 for Jewish antiquities

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: January 17, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The gavel came down on impressive auctions of Judaica last month, including the record-setting sale of a rare biblical commentary dated 1457.

That Italian manuscript of writings by Solomon Ben Issac, the 11th-century French rabbi and commentator known as Rashi, eventually sold to a private buyer who phoned in the winning bid of $434,000. The Dec. 17 sale represented the highest price ever achieved by the auction house, Kestenbaum & Company, for a single lot.

The Rashi commentary was one of 18 lots of "Magnificent Hebrew Manuscripts, Incunabula and Other Valuable Hebrew Books" -- all from ...

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