16th century Hebrew Bible stolen by Nazis returned to its owners
The Di Gara Text was discovered after being put up for sale on a rare books-dealing site.
World Israel News 15.10.2024
A sixteenth century Hebrew Bible is being returned to its rightful owners in Hungary exactly eight decades after being stolen from them by the Nazis.
The Hebrew Di Gara Text includes the Five Books of Moses and the Haftarot, the sections from the Prophets that are read on the Sabbath in synagogue following the reading of the Torah portion of the week.
It was printed by a Hebrew book publisher in Venice, Giovanni di Gara, in the late 1500s, and eventually came into the hands of a nineteenth century rabbi named Lelio Della Torre, who put his stamp in the leatherbound tome.
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