Word: judaica
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remarkable proof of the universal spirit of religious intolerance, inherent in every sect, disclaimed by all while feeble, and practised by all when in power." After spirited bidding at Sotheby's in New York City, the browned, spotted piece of paper went to Ludwig Jesselson, 75, a collector of Judaica. The price: $396,000, the highest figure ever paid for a presidential document...
...every domestic need. The new wave involves far thinner works with fancier fare, specialized offerings that focus with almost microscopic accuracy on the needs of pet lovers, woodcarvers, fond parents, alpinists, anglers, horticulturists, computer buffs, flyers and collectors of everything recondite from antique musical instruments and classic autos to Judaica and museum reproductions...
...exhibits, an academic symposium on the Danzig experience moderated by Professor Isadore Twersky. But the symposium could have taken place without the museum and even without the exhibit. Holocaust studies, strictly speaking, are not in the domain of the Harvard Near Eastern department; nor does 19th-or 20th-century Judaica make up any significant portion of the Semitic Museum's collection...
Divinity School officials also announced plans to raise an additional $500,000 to support lectures, workshops, and scholarship aid for students in Judaica...
Harvard's Judaica exhibit is the largest university collection of its kind in the country...