Ruth Bader Ginsburg library sells for $2.35 million in online auction
Late US Supreme Court justice's copy of the 1957-58 Harvard Law Review, with her name on and handwritten annotations, fetches $100,312.50
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Late US Supreme Court justice's copy of the 1957-58 Harvard Law Review, with her name on and handwritten annotations, fetches $100,312.50
The auction of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's library includes a collection of more than 30 books about Jewish subjects.
One lot of late Supreme Court justice's collection, available for online bids, is 15 titles related to Jewish history and experience, another is on Jewish law
Editor’s note: We have republished this story, originally published in 2015, for Presidents Day. “In central Jerusalem, close by streets named for the medieval Jewish luminary Moses Maimonides and the modern Hebrew writer Peretz Smolenskin, and abutting the American consulate, lies a crooked street named for Abraham Lincoln. When questioned about what he did for the Jewish people to merit a street named for him in Jerusalem, even those Jerusalemites familiar with Lincoln’s biography shake their heads and shrug.” So writes Jonathan D. Sarna in the introduction of his latest book, “Li...