Overview
Judaica represents a wide and diverse area of collecting comprising three main categories: Hebrew manuscripts and books, ritual objects, and fine arts, including paintings and graphics.
Hebrew manuscripts offered generally date from the 15th to the beginning of the 19th century and have set record prices such as the $1,017,750 achieved for the First Nuremberg Haggadah and the record $629,500 reached for an Esther Scroll when an 18th-century illuminated example from Ferrara was brought to auction. Objects for personal, ritual and synagogue use are also offered in these sales, along with items created at the Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem.
The fine arts are represented in Judaica auctions by works by leading Jewish artists such as Marc Chagall, Isidor Kaufmann, Maurycy Gottlieb, Moritz Oppenheim, Solomon Alexander Hart, Edouard Brandon and others dating from the 19th and 20th centuries.
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 The Valmadonna Trust Library Join Sotheby's experts and Jack Lunzer, custodian of the Valmadonna Trust Library, for an intimate tour of this fabled collection of Hebrew books and manuscripts. The library, currently offered for private sale, was exhibited for the first time in its entirety at Sotheby's New York in February. |
