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Going once, going twice
More than 630 lots will go under the hammer at the Archaeological Center's 41st semi-annual auction on October 2 at the Dan Tel Aviv Hotel. Divided among coins, seals, jewelry, oil lamps, glass, antiquities, maps and photographs, the sale will draw the usual crowd of dealers, collectors and museum personnel - plus a smattering of tourists and novice archaeologists hoping for a bargain. {[\r]}{[\n]}{[\r]}{[\n]} |
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Everything is illuminated
'We work as detectives," says Michal Sternthal, head of the Section of Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts at the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University. "We look for clues hidden within the ancient hand-written books that will identify the scribe, the artist, and the patron." |
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From limited to expansive
It's not every day that a museum mixes it all up.{[\r]}{[\n]}Museums tend to be conservative, with very specific classification systems that help determine how works are displayed, generally by technique, period and origin. Rarely is a Peruvian antiquity, for example, displayed with a contemporary Peruvian painting to show references and relationships. Even more seldom will an encyclopedic museum pull together works from every department from now and then and here and there for an exhibition. {[\r]}{[\n]}{[\r]}{[\n]} |
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IBA, Harvard sign deal to digitize archives
Preservation of historic documents has not been Israel's strong suit recently. {[\r]}{[\n]}{[\r]}{[\n]}Much has been written about the deterioration of valuable books and manuscripts in the National Library because of water leaks and other flaws in the building as the premises fall into disrepair. {[\r]}{[\n]}{[\r]}{[\n]}Likewise at the Israel Broadcasting Authority, which contains a treasure trove of {[\r]}{[\n]} |
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From the Hurva to Mamilla
Yehoshua "Shuki" Freiman's house in Efrat is exquisitely adorned with works of art, but the real treasures are in the front yard. {[\r]}{[\n]}{[\r]}{[\n]}Nailed to the stone wall that cordons his home from the street are fragments of an ornate old guard rail, rusted by the passage of time. These wrought-iron pieces of biblical passages hang like voices from the past. {[\r]}{[\n]}{[\r]}{[\n]}The fragments come from the ruins of the Hurva Synagogue in the Old City, having been {[\r]}{[\n]} |
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The French connection
At the opening of Looking for Owners, a show of art returned to France from the Third Reich now at the Israel Museum, French Minister of Culture Christine Albanel expressed the hope that a "miracle" would happen and that some Israeli would come forward as a claimant to one of the 53 works. {[\r]}{[\n]}{[\r]}{[\n]} |
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Ask the Rabbi: Red strings
Q As a follow-up to your column on the evil eye: What is the propriety of wearing red strings as a protection against the evil eye? |
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