A wandering Jewish treasure, looking for a permanent home
Get email notification for articles from David B. Green Follow Apr. 29, 2021 6:55 PM In 1970, Israel Adler, then the director of Israel’s Jewish National and University Library, visited the Paris home of Rachel Mosseri, a Jewish exile from Nasser’s Egypt. Adler had a big mission, and limited time to carry it out – just 10 days to catalog and photograph the roughly 7,000 documents from the Cairo Genizah that constituted the collection assembled by Mosseri’s late husband, Jacques Mosseri, some six decades earlier. From other caches, most notably that assembled by Solomon Schechter, the...
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